How can our meeting facilitators help you?

You are planning an important meeting and you want to make sure it will be productive, motivating and reinforce team spirit?

You are facing an important challenge and want to find new, more innovative solutions?

We will help you to:

• clarify the objectives;
• prepare the meeting; and
• manage the meeting process

This will enable the participants to concentrate on the content of the meeting, thereby maximising the chances of success.

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Using techniques that fully engage participants in the process, we will ensure that:

• meetings (from 3 to 300 people) are structured and productive
• complex problems are better understood by all
• a shared common vision is created
• ideas are generated that change the vision into reality
• an action plan is developed that is understood and accepted by all

When should you consider calling on our facilitators to manage a meeting?

1. Crucial results.
If the results are crucial for the company’s success and a wide range of different opinions are expected.

2. Firm opinions.
If participants have firm, but conflicting opinions and a consensus has to be reached.

3. No good solutions.
If you are struggling to solve a problem and new solutions need to be found.

4. You already have a strong opinion
If you already have a strong opinion on a subject but, as the leader of the meeting, you wish to ensure that this does not bias the discussion.

5. Team commitment.
If it is important to get the active commitment of all group members to a decision .

6. Neutrality of a third party.
If a neutral person is needed to insure trust or full participation.

7. Vague goal.
If the meeting goal or the process to reach this goal is unclear or not well defined.

8. Lack of expertise.
If there is a lack of expertise in running a particular type of meeting e.g. board meeting, visioning, strategic planning, project management, negotiation, problems solving, creating a new brand, product or name, etc.

A team of experienced consultants, facilitators and coaches are able to undertake assignments in different languages. Contact us for details.

The tools used are based on CPS (Creative Problem Solving) and the thinking methods of Edward de Bono (Lateral Thinking, 6 Hats, DATT).