Registration opens December 1 at 7 PM
Facilitated by: Mark Schinkel, Achieve Centre
Poorly planned and facilitated meetings waste time and can be a source of team tension and frustration. However, in most workplaces meetings are essential for getting work done. This workshop is designed to help people increase their abilities to get the best out of their meetings by providing simple and powerful tools for making them efficient and effective. Participants will gain skills to shape meeting dynamics, improve decision making processes, and address unproductive meeting behaviours.
This session is intended for professionals in leadership roles within their organizations.
Pedagogical Focuses: Engagement - Leadership
Standards of Practice: Standard I: Caring and Responsive Relationships, Standard IV: Professionalism and Leadership, Standard V: Professional Boundaries, Dual Relationships and Conflicts of Interest
For over 30 years, Mark Schinkel has served in public education as a Teacher, School Administrator, Executive Superintendent of Human Resource Services, and Senior Superintendent of Student Achievement and Well-Being with the Waterloo Region District School Board. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management, as well as Bachelor of Education and Master of Religion degrees. Mark’s commitment to organizational excellence, building highly effective teams, and leadership development provides a wealth of practical experience in creating the conditions that allow employees to flourish in a safe, inclusive, healthy, purposeful, and productive work environment. He believes that effective leaders leverage and nurture the natural relationship between productivity, organizational goals, healthy work environments, and individual well-being. As an experienced and considerate facilitator, Mark places a high value on creating an engaging, practical, and fun learning experience that is focused on identified participant learning goals and outcomes.
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
9:30 - 11:00 AM
Zoom
Cost
London/Middlesex: Pay What You Can
Elgin/Oxford: Free With Access Code
Registration closes on Monday, March 23 at 12:00 PM
* Ticket types are based on the county you WORK in. Elgin and Oxford participants, use your access code to reveal your ticket type.