The Magic of Facilitation

Expand your understanding of how to meet, proceed and succeed.

Allowing us to facilitate your meeting gives you the following advantages over meeting by yourselves:

• We observe your meeting as an interactive whole
  to keep you and your colleagues focused and on track.
  
  
• You are challenged to explore and identify each others behavior patterns providing all of you equal leverage to discuss topics evenly.
  
  
• Learn Body Language: and begin to see and feel the entire message your colleagues are trying to deliver.
  
  
• Instantly recognize debates, arguments and stalemates as conversational patterns that hinder you from your chosen objectives.
  
  
• Learn to transform these debates and heated discussions to fruitful dialog, easily and painlessly, when you choose.
  
  
• Identify the source of your disagreement. Learn to find the issue's "least common denominator" and then build Win/Win agreement from there, together.
  
  
• Distinguish Agreement from persuasion and compromise and become agreement fanatics that get things accomplished.
  
  
• Lessen your need for facilitation through learning our tools and methods you and your group will get better and better at solving your own debates and discussions, internally.

Make effective use of your meeting times:

Even when you agree sometimes there can be items deemed
"too sensitive" to take up and discuss. Learn to ventilate your thoughts
in a way that is hard to be taken personally.

Facilitation and its "ripple effect"

The more you practice this internally the more it will show externally.
The more you learn to agree with each other, the more you will learn to generate agreement with every contact you make.

Think of what this can do to the rest of your organization and all those you do business with...

• Keep your meeting focused and on track.

• Recognize debates, arguments and stalemates as conversational patterns. 

• Observe Body Language
practice seeing and sensing
the entire message your other colleagues wish to deliver

• Explore your colleagues' behavior patterns and level
the field.

• Identify a disagreement's source. Learn to locate the issue's "least common denominator" or "greatest common factor".
Build a Win/Win agreement from there, together.

• Distinguish agreement from persuasion and compromise.
Become agreement fanatics and get things accomplished.

• Lessen your need for future facilitation by practicing each of these tools and methods.

With practice, you and your group will get better and better at solving your own debates and discussions yourselves!