Meeting Facilitation Program
The Mission Tune Up Program!
Clarify mission, vision, values
Set direction and priorities
Define objectives, roles, responsibilities
Improve response-readiness
Increase fund-raising capacity
Enhance financial management systems
Improve trust
Does Your Organization Need a Mission Tune Up?
Meeting Facilitation
Mission Killers are structural elements and cultural qualities that destroy an organization’s capacity to fulfill its mission.
Half Day / Full Day (nonprofit discount available)
For our Meeting Facilitation program, we interview selected members of the senior team/Board, as well as a cross-section of staff from all levels of the organization.
We define what leadership is doing well, and where leadership may be falling short.
Our process helps define structures / cultural qualities that erode your organization’s capacity to fulfill its mission.
Then we help you build your solution set.
The Meeting Guy’s facilitation methodology strips away emotional chaos to focus on common goals and values.
We will guide the team to assess the deeper, subtle elements of your communication styles and culture, so that your team will be better equipped to deal with conflict and communication challenges as they arise.
We review operations, communications, and cultural practices. Then, we relate them to measurable outcomes and surface the challenges standing in your way. The result is more enthusiasm and commitment from senior leadership and staff, and an enhanced capacity to fulfill your Mission.
Our approach includes an assessment of what we at The Meeting Guy call the “Mission Killers”. The “Mission Killers” are:
- Team members lack technical skills necessary to succeed
- Leadership is ambiguous, unsupportive
- Culture lacks trust, safety
- Culture tolerates mediocrity
- Team members have poor interpersonal skills (lack of empathy, lack of boundaries)
The Meeting Guy team follows a three-step process for our Meeting Facilitation Full Day program:
In our view, Scope is primarily comprised of listening: Our pre-meeting design process includes powerful listening, to your organizational leaders, to staff and other key stakeholders, to understand your organization’s culture, the current situation and desired outcomes for your meeting.
We then design exciting, achievable objectives and a comprehensive agenda to address those needs and outcomes. We ask for preliminary feedback from you and others on your team to ensure that participants won’t be spending costly time defining issues; this means that your retreat will focus on producing results, building performance systems and making commitments and action plans for post-event.
You will be in good hands! The Meeting Guy facilitators guide your day-long meeting so participants can concentrate on achieving goals and solving problems. During the meeting, we will foster an interactive environment in which participants openly discuss issues and work on collaborative solutions. The results are stunning, and include improved alignment, increased Trust, better communication and more cooperation. All of our meetings include the facilitator’s capacity to emphasize, capture and document key ideas and priorities so we can create a useful post-event report.
Structured agenda
Enforced, consensus-building ground rules
Increased productivity in group negotiations
Decisions that solve problems, set direction and determine actions
This program is for you if:
Your meetings are perceived as a waste of time
Your meetings take longer than they should
Dominant individuals hijack or disrupt your meetings
Your meetings don’t produce desired results consistently
Discover Our Journey So Far
Mission Mastery helps you create healthier, more accurate agreements by surfacing and resolving hidden barriers to productivity.
Half Day – 4 Hours – Per session
Meeting Planning
Meeting
Session Review
Full Day – 4-8 Hours – Per Session
Meeting Planning
Meeting
Session Review
Feedback Review
What Our Clients Say
Hear from those who have experienced our exceptional services.
“David’s meeting facilitation skills, especially during the challenging pre-meeting planning sessions, is an asset to any organization looking for improved collaboration and meeting flow. “
“David was actively involved in the pre-meeting process of developing theme, content and flow. His presence and many contributions were vital to the overall success of the Retreat. He kept a significantly energetic group on-task by setting and maintaining the meeting Agenda. “
M. Penn
SVP, Direct Channel / Intl. Sales
Dickies Marketing Team
“We were impressed by his calm, centered approach to group facilitation, his manner of being so caring and attentive, as well as his warmth and sense of humor.“
Molly Reed
Programs Director
The Art of Community
“David delivered impact and value to our 130+ staff during our 2020 Retreat.
His program was a lot of fun!”
John Emmaneel,
SVP General Manager, Chicago
Invision Communications
