Meeting Facilitation
The Mission Tune Up Program!
- Clarify mission, vision, values
- Set direction and priorities
- Define objectives, roles, responsibilities
- Improve response-readiness
- Increase fund-raising capacity
- Enhance financial management systems
- Improve trust
Does Your Organization Need a Mission Tune Up?
Meeting Facilitation: Full Day or Half Day
Half Day / Full Day (nonprofit discount available)
For our Meeting Facilitation program, we interview selected members of the senior team/Board, as well as a cross-section of staff from all levels of the organization.
We define what leadership is doing well, and where leadership may be falling short.
Our process helps define structures / cultural qualities that erode your organization’s capacity to fulfill its mission. Then we help you build your solution set.
The Meeting Guy’s facilitation methodology strips away emotional chaos to focus on common goals and values. We will guide the team to assess the deeper, subtle elements of your communication styles and culture, so that your team will be better equipped to deal with conflict and communication challenges as they arise.
We review operations, communications, and cultural practices. Then, we relate them to measurable outcomes and surface the challenges standing in your way. The result is more enthusiasm and commitment from senior leadership and staff, and an enhanced capacity to fulfill your Mission. Our approach includes an assessment of what we at The Meeting Guy call the “Mission Killers”. The “Mission Killers” are:
- Leadership is ambiguous, unsupportive
- Culture lacks trust, safety
- Culture tolerates mediocrity
- Team members have poor interpersonal skills (lack of empathy, lack of boundaries)
- Team members lack technical skills necessary to succeed
SOLUTION PATHWAY
The Meeting Guy team follows a three-step process for our Meeting Facilitation Full Fay program:
- Scope
- Design
- Facilitate
Scope
In our view, Scope is primarily comprised of listening: Our pre-meeting design process includes powerful listening, to your organizational leaders, to staff and other key stakeholders, to understand your organization’s culture, the current situation and desired outcomes for your meeting.
Design
We then design exciting, achievable objectives and a comprehensive agenda to address those needs and outcomes. We ask for preliminary feedback from you and others on your team to ensure that participants won’t be spending costly time defining issues; this means that your retreat will focus on producing results, building performance systems and making commitments and action plans for post-event.
Facilitate
You will be in good hands! The Meeting Guy facilitators guide your day-long meeting so participants can concentrate on achieving goals and solving problems. During the meeting, we will foster an interactive environment in which participants openly discuss issues and work on collaborative solutions. The results are stunning, and include improved alignment, increased Trust, better communication and more cooperation. All of our meetings include the facilitator’s capacity to emphasize, capture and document key ideas and priorities so we can create a useful post-event report.
- Structured agenda
- Enforced, consensus-building ground rules
- Increased productivity in group negotiations
- Decisions that solve problems, set direction and determine actions
This program is for you if:
- Your meetings are perceived as a waste of time
- Your meetings take longer than they should
- Dominant individuals hijack or disrupt your meetings
- Your meetings don’t produce desired results consistently
Half Day – 4 Hours
Per Session
Full Day – 4-8 Hours
Per Session