Meeting Facilitation

Meetings are an important component to making solid decisions and completing initiatives in all organizations.  The success of a meeting is highly dependent on the facilitator's ability to lead before, during, and after the meeting.  For all of the LeadVantage Consulting services, effectively leading meetings is critical to our success.  Through running numerous meetings of all types, we have developed skills, techniques, and tools that help up to faciliate effective and efficient meetings.  We even try to make them interesting by focusing the discussion on the topics that matter to those taking the time to participate.  We encourage doing the up front work to make sure that attendees are prepared and ready to participate.  After the meeting, we ensure the action items have owners and a mechanism to follow-up on them. 

In addition to our faciliation skills, clients often find it helpful to have LeadVantage faciliate meetings because we have experience in developing businesss improvement recommendations, leading projects, and motivating people to change.  This experience is often valuable to serve as a gut check on the feasibility of ideas and approaches.

We help our clients run successful meetings that are interesting, efficient, and achieve the planned objectives.

Do any of these issues sound familiar?  If so, we can help!

• Do you need help planning and running a strategy meeting?
• Do you need an outside objective facilitator to control a tough group or navigate a sensitive topic?
• Does your group need someone with business improvement and project management experience to assist in developing feasible goals and plans?

Approach

Plan the meeting

• Set meeting objectives and success criteria
• Identify the right people to attend the meeting and interview for background information 
• Determine the attendee roles for the meeting 
• Explain the attendee backgrounds, personalities, positions, and communication styles
• Determine the meeting approach, format, and logistics

Prepare for the meeting

• Conduct interviews with attendees to understand issues and topics
• Manage expectations and get buy-in for the meeting
• Develop meeting agenda and detailed preparation notes
• Create pre-work and meeting materials
• Prepare meeting attendees for their role in the meeting

Conduct the meeting

• Distribute pre-work and materials to attendees
• Facilitate the meeting
• Lead and participate in decision making
• Document the meeting notes and action items
• Request meeting evaluation from attendees

Conclude the meeting

• Produce a meeting summary document 
• Assign and develop plans to follow-up on all action items
• Summarize meeting evaluation
• Provide observations and high-level business improvement recommendations (if appropriate) 

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