We take away the hassle of you having to manage the process. Facilitation is what we do professionally. This service more fully allows the leader and all participants to focus their expertise and energy toward the objective. This facilitated environment promotes the most creative and broadest generation of ideas to meet a clearly focused objective.

Our facilitation services have proven to be valuable to clients in a wide variety of functions and industries. We have provided high impact initiatives such as:

Team Building

Strategic Planning

Board & Management Retreats

Conflict Resolution Within and Between Groups

Employee Focus Groups

Innovative Problem Solving

Employee Survey Feedback & Action Planning

Action Forums

Peer Assessments

Leader Developmental Assessments

Sample Engagements

A recently formed team was struggling with a lack of direction at both the team and individual level. Our facilitation services supported the formation of this new team as they assessed the current reality. They then developed a clear picture of where they wanted to go. They produced a vision, values, identified products/services and identified customers to serve, and measures for customer satisfaction. Team member roles were clarified and negotiated. Strategies were developed to move the organization from current situation to the desired future. Thus, strategic planning occurred. Direction of the team and its members was established and a basis for assessment established.

The accounting and finance departments of a Fortune 500 company were engaged in conflict. Facilitation of constructive processes was used to share perceptions of each other. We facilitated their agreement on common goals, roles, and action plans with milestones and success measures to have conflict resolution.

Many members of a recently formed corporate staff team were experiencing inter-personal issues with each other that hindered performance. Team members were not comfortable openly discussing issues they had with each other. A management retreat allowed for facilitation that encouraged and developed skills that promoted constructive candid developmental feedback which helped them serve their customers and reach their performance goals. The team identified each team member’s strengths and an area of improvement. Subsequent management retreats were used as a follow up for progress checks.

A company was considering the implementation of a peer review disciplinary process. Management wanted to get a candid reaction to the proposed process from a representative cross section of employees. A cross-section of employees was assembled (focus groups) to help determine the feasibility of implementing the new disciplinary system. Facilitation of focus groups allowed an effective process for participants to give management the information they wanted for making decisions.