Professional Meeting Facilitation Overview

When to use a professional meeting facilitator:

Professional facilitators are generally most useful when the stakes are relatively high in terms of what might be lost or not gained by a less than fully productive meeting or decision-making process. The following graphic shows that need depends on circumstance.

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If these circumstances are present to any real extent, you can most probably save time, money, and grief by hiring a professional meeting facilitator for leadership.

What a professional facilitator does for you:

A professional facilitator is there to help you meet your specific meeting objectives. These may, for example, include elements of the following:

	Allow management and staff to focus on the important matters without having to worry about the details of running the meeting
	Provide organization and structure for you
	Minimize or even defuse interpersonal conflict while addressing hot issues
	Maximize the probability that meeting objectives will be met on time
	Help groups reach understanding and/or consensus
	Solve problems
	Managing the meeting climate for the right balance of humor and seriousness
	Provide a neutral party to moderate discussions or help see the big picture
	Train how to run optimal meetings

Some of the tools and skills of a professional facilitator:

The skilled facilitator has a toolbox of methods that can be used as appropriate. For example:

	Meeting and time management skills
	Creative Problem Solving methods
	Training games and activities that teach and get results
	Mediation tools and skills
	Small and large-group discussion techniques
	Team building methods
	Decision making and consensus building methods

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