Meeting Facilitation

Crucial meetings and conferences demand your very best efforts

Many of your own people may be qualified to conduct your meetings. But there are compelling motivations to utilize an outside facilitator, and critical reasons to use one who truly understands the intricacies of your goals and processes.

• Outside facilitators elicit no history-based distortions, prejudices or expectations.
• Credentialed outside experts benefit from a perceived"believability" factor.
• Top managers are free to absorb and interpret the participants' reactions.
• Top managers can interject their influence only intermittently, and
  thus more powerfully.
• Top managers are free to analyze the flow of reactions and plan necessary adaptations to the initial agenda.

Legacy facilitators are a particularly prudent option because they:

• Are active management consultants who have a thorough understanding of management issues.
• Are expert in enrolling and aligning participants in the process and desired goals.
• Are highly adept at keeping all participants and constituencies actively involved in the process.
• Are skilled at diplomatically preventing a minority of participants
  from dominating conversation.
• Are consummate professionals at "between-the-meetings" conversations, discovering unspoken new idea, unvoiced concerns and
  solidifying positive reactions.

The more important the gathering, the more important to use a true expert