“Our inaugural Annual Members meeting received really positive feedback, thanks to your input in the design and facilitation of the morning workshop. Your facilitation was extremely professional, and you demonstrated to the group a really sound grasp of our organisation.”
Lee Christian – Manager; Member Services – ABL |
Your meeting needs to drive business results. But the old paradigm of telling rather than asking is dead. If you want to engage your staff, members and stakeholders, you must take a different approach.
The evolution from presenter to facilitator is a subtle paradigm shift. Many conferences or strategic meetings still focus on the "skilled presenter" paradigm, with problematic consequences:
- Poor group participation process means many people remain passive observers
- Only the most disciplined people actually do something different afterward
- People disempowered when they are not included in generating a solution
Skilled Conference Facilitators
can Drive Higher Quality Outcomes
The purpose of meetings is to create behavioural change. Where most meetings dwell on content, in a high-quality facilitation process, the experience itself is as important as the information. The dynamics of the facilitation must generate energy and momentum, as well as ownership by the group, who must create and take responsibility for their own result.
A high level of involvement throughout the process allows planning to be converted to long-term results. Thus every conversation is directed towards outcomes.
Rather than risk a facilitator heading down the wrong track, our facilitators prepare with you in a Meeting by Design™ phase, then conduct the meeting process with skilled use of FAST Meeting Co. tools and processes to improve communication and speed up decision making.
| End Result: People leave your meeting with a great sense of achievement, clear outcomes, a pathway forward and a commitment to action, following their active participation in a productive and engaging meeting. |
FAST Meetings Facilitation Solutions
Conference Facilitation
Our conference facilitation is group-centred; focusing on the experience of the individuals and how they will get the most out of their participation. The facilitator creates a coherency to the conference and the themes while creating a context for people to relate new information to their own situations. When a session requires engagement and alignment, we can help people create the knowledge and discover their own answers, using group interaction and consensus-building approaches to create a bigger impact.
Strategic Meeting Facilitation
Strategic Meetings are not isolated events; our faciiltation therefore works within a bigger picture, ensuring that the created strategy is converted into action. We use clear language and proven decision making processes, ensuring full consideration of the goals as compared to the current reality. Our processes help people create concrete agreements and plans that are realistic and easily implemented.
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Associated Services
Often the Facilitation process is part of a wider support program and is the second stage after a Meeting by Design process. If you want your own people to facilitation, DIY Coaching of your key people to deliver the agenda format and outcomes. Strategy into Action then helps embed accountabilities into the ongoing operation of your organisation.
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