We can facilitate your next offsite, retreat, or regular staff meeting. We work closely with you to create the agenda you need to meet your goals for the meeting. And then in the meeting, we adjust times and activities as necessary to ensure your objectives are met completely!
Some of the more common types of meetings that we facilitate are:
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Vision, Mission, and Values—Great teams use mission to help them focus on why they exist, vision to help them focus on what they are building, and values to help them focus on how they operate together. A great exercise to go through as a team, especially when a new team is formed, the direction changes significantly, or there is a significant change in team membership.
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Strategic Planning/Tactical Planning—Successful teams make goals, set objectives and then hold themselves accountable to those targets. Sometimes teams even find that the process of planning (and the clarity and insight they gain as they struggle over it together) is even more valuable than the actual plan itself! When planning sessions are facilitated, all members of the team get to participate fully and equally, and side track journeys are minimized.
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Conflict Resolution—It’s entirely natural and even expected that teams have bouts of discord among them as they gel and come together as a functioning team. When the going gets tough, the tough call in a facilitator to help them work through the disconnects (rather than work around them). On the other side is a team that understands, appreciates and truly leverages their differences appropriately and productively.
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Dealing with Change—The only constant is change. So why do so many people resist it so vehemently? We explore the changes facing the team and normalize people’s legitimate reactions (including temporary resistance) to those changes. Becoming aware is the first step towards ultimate acceptance. Revealing exercises, actual data about normal reactions to change and facilitated frank discussions help teams address changes and move on.
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Group Decision Making and Problem Solving—When a decision or problem is so big that its resolution is critical to the team’s success, smart teams ask a facilitator to help. Using proven problem solving techniques, we guide teams through making decisions that are the absolute best for all the stakeholders, as well as helping everyone involved to commit to the decision’s success. It takes some time, but the quality of the resolution, as well as the personal commitment of individual team members make it time well spent!
