The Business Case for Professional Meetings Facilitation
Management meetings often waste a lot of time, stray from the intended agenda and important items often get delayed. If this is happening to your meetings, ask yourself how much time, money and productivity is being wasted because the process works so poorly? How much salary is being wasted in some of these meetings? When decisions get delayed are there financial impacts to the company? Does it have a ripple effect, hurting the productivity of others?
Professional meeting facilitation can be a solution that makes meetings structured and highly efficient, guiding the interpersonal process, managing the time and accelerating productivity. It can also be a way to introduce management tools for problem solving or decision making, alter the behavior of difficult people and break bad habits that otherwise dedicated people have fallen into over time.
Wayne MacNeil is a Master Facilitator certified by the Dooley Leadership Development Institute, is an adherent of Edgar Schein’s work in Process Consultation, and is certified in TQ management tools and techniques associated with meetings and group process. He has also created and taught a course to teach meetings facilitation.
MacNeil Consulting can provide professional meetings facilitation. This involves pre-planning of a structured agenda, facilitated discussion, use of common meeting ground rules and establishment of documented decisions and action items. If desired, meetings facilitation can be used for additional purposes in team development such as introducing tools and techniques that will improve a group’s problem solving and/or decision making capability and/or addressing teamwork issues.
When a facilitator is used on a regular basis (a standing meeting or project) the facilitator can also provide an additional value of being an outside force that drives the agenda, schedule and holds people accountable for action items. In this sense, the facilitator can be used as a management tool and outside force a to keep attention focused on completing an effort and accelerate project work.
You may even find that the increased productivity and teamwork more than pays for the cost of the facilitator. It can be a win/win solution that actually saves the company money.
Use this link to contact MacNeil Consulting about Professional Facilitation.
