Chairing a Working Party During The Eu Presidency

The programme will offer the participants precise targeted guidance in a highly interactive format. It will alternate a simulation exercise with theoretical and procedural contributions, a workshop and exchanges of practices. Throughout the seminar, participants will receive feedback on the main elements identified during the simulation, as well as tools to possibly improve the negotiation and chairing process during the meeting of a Council working party.

The simulation exercise will offer several participants the occasion to Chair in a genuine Council operating mode. The training experience therefore offers a laboratory to audit, test, exchange and improve one’s assumptions, knowledge and practice of chairing techniques during the meeting of a working party; from a scientific and technical, but also individual and interpersonal, perspective.

The programme will rely on the expertise of four trainers with experience in strategic preparation, training, advice and of course chairing of a former Chair, a Council General Secretariat representative and specialists in negotiation and communication.