Facilitation
Have you ever come to the end of a one or two-day meeting feeling that you have not accomplished much or could have achieved better results? What often happens is that the person leading the meeting is also a participant. It’s difficult to chair a meeting—keeping people focused on the objective, watching the clock, making sure everyone participates—and then try to participate and contribute too. We enable leaders to truly contribute to the meeting and the team’s performance by leaving the facilitation to us.
The pre-meeting work is equally important to the success of your mission. We will work closely with you to define the goals of the meeting or retreat and prioritize the issues. Together we discuss not only the business context for the event but also the human context; we identify areas where the discussion may veer off track and agree on strategies for handling sensitive issues.
We keep the meeting moving toward your goals by expertly balancing the need for progress with the need for people to speak out. We can resolve emerging conflicts quickly and keep the atmosphere positive. Our facilitation sets the tone for the event and inspires the participants to treat each other’s ideas with a high level of respect.
Facilitation is helpful for:
- Strategic Planning
- Mission & Vision Setting
- Team Building and Development
- Changing Environments
- Conflict Resolution
Why use an external facilitator?
- To actively engage all members of the team to offer ideas.
- To handle all the personalities in the meeting, even those who have a tendency to disrupt it.
- To assist in solving problems and methods of decision making.
- To keep the team focused on the meeting objectives for optimum results.
- To increase the likelihood of follow-through on decisions made at the meeting.
- To help gauge the success of the business meeting and use lessons learned to improve upon the next one
- To help build trust and team spirit for achieving company goals.
- To encourage the generation and cultivation of ideas and to help the team take action on those that seem appropriate to the cause.
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