Great leaders get the best out of their meetings by always facilitating them efficiently and effectively. Though not a straight-forward task, once you have mastered meeting facilitation you will quickly reap rewards. 

Here are 7 tips to help you facilitate in the body of your meetings:

• Listen carefully and summarise at different points
• Make fewer statements and ask more questions
• Dig deep, find out the “WHY” rather than just the “WHAT”
• Get help – delegate roles at the beginning: time manager and minute taker
• Support and involve everyone to ensure active and equal participation
• Stay on track – keep everyone focused on the meeting objective
• Use positive verbal and non-verbal language

There are plenty more tips for great meeting facilitation but these 7 will get you started.