Meeting Facilitation

Too much at stake at this next meeting? Need someone else to run this meeting?

If you are challenged with running a successful business meeting this is a good place to start:

Want more control of the group, or need more people to participate, or need to get people to follow-through, or stop damaging behaviors; the secret lies in effective meeting facilitation skills.

*Facilitation defined: it's the process of designing and running a successful meeting.

For a successful meeting the following basics must be in place:

• A clear and organized agenda, with time lines, assigned tasks and most of all - a clearly defined purpose

• Agreed upon ground rules to encourage a sense of safety, fairness and to manage difficult behaviors

• A sense of personal control for the facilitator when it comes to managing difficult behaviors when they do arise (and they will)

• A successful and reliable decision making process that will be respected and honored by all

• A sense of group purpose, ownership and accomplishment: tasks are delegated and completed, people feel heard, a plan is in place

We suggest:

1. We train you or your entire group the art of meeting basics and how to be a successful meeting facilitator and participant

2. If you are In a hurry, let us facilitate your meeting smoothly, effortlessly and cleanly

3. Want to go it on your own? Purchase our We've Got To Start Meeting Like THIS! Handbook, it will save you years of painful meetings!

Workbook contents:

Meeting Purpose
Sample Meeting Agendas or Agenda Templates
How We Control Behaviors - Sample Ground Rules
Meeting Roles / Effective Notes Taking
Responsibilities Of The Meeting Chair
Decision Making / Time Management
Improve Flow & Process
Meeting Rating From
Meeting Evaluation Survey
Pamela's Top Meeting Picks!

If your situation is complex, confrontational, or being sabotogued we may recommend an intervention may be necessary before you can accomplish the true business at hand

Let our trained facilitators work through your concerns, it's what we do, and we do it well.

Communicate with CLASS facilitators will either facilitate for you or coach you to conduct a meeting and…

• Maintain neutrality, especially valuable when you know the meeting will be a difficult one

• Find the underlying needs and fears

• Head off and manage difficult behaviors

• Utilize necessary fundamentals of meeting planning and orchestration

• Solve problems efficiently rather than losing thousands in wasted hours

• Set up and maintain cooperative and useful teams

I want to say how much I respect and admire your ability to move such a complex organism as a committee composed of volunteers. Before you assumed the coordinating role, the meetings could have been videotaped as examples of how committees eat up time and arrive at no conclusions and take no actions. I believe the success of this year's outreach is to a large extent due to you. So you go, girl! Beverly

Bring us into your organization to show your entire group how to run and participate in a meeting that WORKS!