Meeting Facilitation

A facilitator will help your group achieve your goal(s) by leading a planned process. A facilitator will ask questions, make suggestions, keep the agenda on track and assist in getting closure on your objectives. The facilitator will make sure everyone gets to share their thoughts through creating a safe environment for free exchange of ideas. The facilitator will always remain neutral yet create structure for process and content.

Our goal is for you to have an outstanding meeting – with clearly defined results which all participants feel as though they contributed to – all delivered in a timely and succinct manner.

Meeting Facilitators can:

• Help you clarify the goals for your session so that they are clear, concise, meaningful and achievable.
• Propose and develop a meeting agenda prior to the meeting in consultation with the meeting organizers. Email agenda to participants with welcome note, meeting details and expectations.
• Guide the meeting process so that each participants comments and viewpoints are heard and understood by the others.
• Facilitate the session to keep the group on track
• Help the meeting participants achieve consensus and closure.
• Assist the participants to develop an action plan to implement after the meeting.
• May use brainstorming and creative problem-solving techniques similar to those a mediator might use to help participants move past disagreement and reach consensus.
• Document the meeting so that key discussions and action plans are captured.
• Follow up with you after the session to ensure that everything is as it should be.

A meeting facilitator does not offer content material to the meeting discussion. The facilitator guides the meeting process so that all viewpoints are heard and understood.