Meetings & 'Futurestorming' Facilitation
Are you running successful meetings?
When you are at the wheel of an ocean-going yacht in rough waters, you simultaneously need to concentrate on the wind, the water, the waves, the weather, the well-being of your crew and of course your destination. Steering a meeting similarly demands your attention on many variables.
As a business leader, running the meeting may not be the best use of your time or the best way to accomplish your desired goals. If you want participant ownership and lasting commitment to meeting outcomes, a better choice may be to serve as a member of the team and not as the leader.
As a professional facilitator, Graham works with you to achieve your desired results. He brings objective perspectives and proven methods for guaranteeing meeting success.
Listed below are eleven great reasons why increasing numbers of organisations are making it mandatory to engage external third-party facilitators to conduct their important meetings.
1. Works with you to design your meeting for optimum success.
2. Creates a ‘safe’ environment where creativity, innovation and openness to new ideas can thrive. An environment where participants can contribute without fear of humiliation, retribution or retaliation.
3. Builds trust, open communication and cross-cultural understanding.
4. Keeps group on track focusing people on appropriate issues for the right amount of time.
5. Ensures all participants actively participate and maintains fairness and equity in contributions to discussions.
6. Handles discipline, behaviour and conflict effectively.
7. Holds group back where necessary, yet honours a change in direction when and where appropriate.
8. Ensures agreement is reached before moving forward.
9. Helps create involvement and ownership of the plan.
10. Ensures accountability and sign-off on agreed action plans and time-lines.
11. Dramatically increases likelihood of implementation and follow throughon decisions reached.
When your meeting is critical, why take a chance?