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If your meeting is important enough for your key people to devote their time to it, you deserve a professional, neutral facilitator to ensure your meeting is well organized, flows smoothly, everyone participates and clear decisions are made.
Even when a team member has the required skills to facilitate the meeting, it is unfair to restrict their potential for contribution. A facilitator sets aside their personal opinions and stands apart from the outcome of a meeting, making their contribution by guiding the process.
The facilitation team at Genesis Group is experienced in keeping discussion focused, on track and on schedule, preventing any one group or individual from either dominating the meeting or being overlooked. Our team of professional facilitators offers structure, an impartial perspective, and ensures all participants are able to interact constructively.
The facilitation team at Genesis Group can:
- Develop clear and focused agendas with specific objectives and goals
- Create a safe, non-threatening environment for open discussion
- Provide a neutral third party facilitator
- Provide management of the meeting process
- Help participants feel less intimidated
- Help to clearly define the issues and problems without bias
- Provide assistance in dealing with rivalries within the group
- Make more effective use of the meeting time by keeping the discussion focused on key issues
- Help break down complex issues and problems to aid the group in working together to solve problems
- Help create accountability through clear action plans and clarity on the next steps
- Cultivate a commitment of the group to follow-up on the action plan
- Help to "visualize" what can be in the future by creating a unified vision
Consider engaging the Genesis Group's consultation team for the following types of events:
- Strategic planning
- Team or departmental planning meetings
- Board meetings
- Organizational restructures
- Issue management programs
- Focus groups
- Retreats
- Conferences
- Goal setting meetings
- Team building events
- Project debriefs
- Quarterly or Annual reviews of service, performance, etc
- Leadership and management development programs or retreats
"We appreciated having the pre-meeting work in order to hit the ground running and have a better level of understanding from the facilitators."
- Participant from Senior Management Committee Meeting, Government of Nunavut Education, Culture and Employment
"[The facilitator's] calm, assertive, and methodical manner of facilitation was exceptional for being purely a constructive force rather than either being too week or too dominating – a difficult line to walk as a facilitator."- Participant from Senior Management Committee Meeting, Government of Nunavut Education, Culture and Employment
"Discussion with others was well done. Every person I spoke with also felt it was very well done." - Participant from annual meeting, Government of Nunavut Health and Social Services
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