Facilitation

A Great meeting is not the outcome.

If you judge the offsite at 5:00 P.M., you’ve measured the wrong outcome. Thirty days later, something should be different. The test is what the organization can decide, own, and execute after everyone leaves.

  • BEFORE THE ROOM: We identify what is actually unresolved.
  • IN THE ROOM: We surface the tradeoffs and make the consequential decisions.
  • AFTER THE ROOM: We determine whether the decision is governing behavior or being quietly renegotiated.
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Before the Room:Find out what is actually unresolved.

We work with you, and, when useful selected stakeholder to understand consequential decisions, competing perspectives, hidden assumptions, and what must be different after the meeting.

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Surface what the normal meeting may not reveal.

We work with you to understand legitimate competing priorities, interests, risks, investment pace, and operating realities.

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Design the room around the decision.

This is not about the agenda. This is about creating the conditions in which tradeoffs can be made, disagreement can be surfaced, decision authority can be clarified, and real ownership can emerge.

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GRAPHIC RECORDING AND FACILITATION.

We sometimes leverage graphic recording to enhance the understanding of the meeting content and dialogue.

What is Graphic Facilitation?

We sometimes utilize graphic facilitation and recording during many client engagements.

Graphic recording is a visual note-taking system. The ‘recorder’ or ‘scribe’ takes notes on a large canvas. The end result is a visual representation of what went on in the session that is meaningful to the people who were present.

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Why Graphic Facilitation?

Individuals learn and process information in various ways. By using a graphic facilitator, we help meeting participants engage more effectively. The results include effective decision-making, shorter meetings, stronger content memorability, clearer trade-offs, stronger ownership, and decisions people can act on afterward.

DID THE MEETING CHANGE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

A successful offsite or critical meeting should produce more than engagement in the room. The decisions should continue to govern behavior after everyone leaves.

 

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