Meeting Facilitation
We facilitate productive team meetings to ensure specific, desired outcomes.
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We facilitate productive team meetings to ensure specific, desired outcomes
The role of the facilitator is to impartially direct the activities of a group meeting with a common purpose to ensure an efficient process. The facilitator does not have decision-making authority.
What Types of Issues or Processes Might Call for a Facilitator?
Typical facilitation engagement themes are:
- Designing/redesigning organizational structures
- Strategy development
- Brainstorming
- Problem solving
- Addressing highly contentious group issues
What Are the Benefits of Using a Third-Party Facilitator?
An effective third-party facilitator will:
- Collect, organize, and summarize data during and after the session(s)
- Quickly diffuse challenging behaviors and sidetracking
- Ensure all parties are heard and duly considered
- Efficiently encourage options and resolutions
- Gain commitment and buy-in
- Identify next steps and accountabilities
- Capture participants’ attention immediately, hold their interest, and maintain engagement
- Keep participants focused on achieving the desired outcomes
- Minimize anxiousness
- Encourage a creative dynamic
- Ensure full individual thinking and participation versus immediate groupthink
- Collect, organize, and summarize data during and after the session(s)
Iridium Leadership Solutions prefers to use an appreciative inquiry approach to facilitation. This approach seeks to leverage the best of what is working as a basis for creating new solutions and creative possibilities.
Iridium Leadership Solutions fully subscribes to and practices the ethical standards upheld by the International Coaches Federation (ICF).