If that image makes you feel jangled, imagine how you'll feel after 15,000 hours of meetings!
 

Effective Facilitation Solutions™

All those hours spent in meetings need not be wasted. With CRG's Effective Facilitation Solutions™, meetings are customized to the needs of your business.

Effective Facilitation Solutions™ allow you to create customized, multifaceted approaches to problem solving and constructive change initiatives that meet the specific needs of your business. The CRG facilitator helps you clarify the existing situation, identify expected outcomes and achieve your meeting goals and objectives.

The process for effective facilitation includes three stages:

1. Planning the meeting

• Purpose and approach definition – informational, project status, issue resolution, problem solving, decision making, etc.
• Identification of attendees and participants
• Pre-work requirements
• Roles and responsibilities
   

2. Meeting execution

• Application of processes that enable involvement, creativity, interaction and collaboration in support of the meeting purpose
• Management of group dynamics
   

3. Post meeting activities

• Assignment of action items
• Review and determine next step for outstanding issues
• Reporting
• Feedback
   

What Makes an Effective Facilitator?

The word “Facilitate” means “to make easier and to help bring about.” An effective facilitator helps your group assume responsibility for success by coaching and providing feedback, asking appropriate open-ended questions, and establishing an atmosphere where cooperative learning and collaboration is valued.

The importance of facilitators in this process is both in their training and their impartiality. With no vested interest in the specific outcome of your business solution, the facilitator focuses on the application of effective process, freeing the group to focus on the business objectives.

Facilitators provide leadership but not in the traditional sense of directing and controlling. An effective facilitator guides the group to their own solutions by taking them through a series of steps, enabling them to reach higher levels of performance. The ultimate goal of a facilitator is to help the group come up with its own answers.

An Effective Facilitator:

• Guides without directing
• Maintains control without stifling creativity and flexibility
• Brings about change without disruption
• Separates ideas from individuals
• Guides the process of self-discovery
• Listens for more than what is said
• Enables the development of new approaches and solutions to problems
• Knocks down walls, while preserving a structure of value and mutual respect
• Appreciates people as people
• Maintains confidentiality
• Remains impartial, focusing on process, not content

Our Effective Facilitation Solutions™ function on the premise that increased organization, when combined with better communication, and careful planning, will further your company's progress toward optimal productivity, efficiency, and strength, Unleashing the Power to Grow!™

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