Advance Facilitation enables teams, groups and communities to make inclusive, creative, and powerful decisions and discoveries. Our professional facilitators have extensive training and experience in group process, conflict resolution and interpersonal communications. They are committed to providing neutral facilitation that elicits free and informed choice, compassion, integrity and forward movement.

 

International Association of Facilitators Member

What we offer:

Strategic Planning Facilitation

Stakeholder Meeting Facilitation

Retreat Facilitation

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Strategic planning can be funny business

I recently had the good fortune of facilitating a strategic planning session for a health care foundation. The group was composed of hospital staff including a high-profile doc, administration, business leaders and philanthropists. Amazing individuals.

I had learned during my pre-session interviews that while there was a great deal of respect for fellow board members and stakeholders, there was also significant disagreement about what the focus of the foundation should be during the upcoming years. The planning session promised to be both interesting and challenging.

At the end of the day, during the debriefing session, two things became clear: We had accomplished our goal of having all 20 participants provide their wisdom, expertise, perspective and creative ideas to inform the strategic plan AND we’d had a great time doing it. It was one of the most productive sessions I’ve ever facilitated, and my face literally ached from smiling and laughing all day.

Why a Facilitator?

1.  Increased objectivity

2.  Clearly defined meeting goals and objectives

3.  Creative processes and exercises
 
4.  Effective and intentional use of time and space

5.  To help ensure that conflict is constructive rather than destructive

6.  To evoke participation and creativity

7.  To ensure that the ideas discussed in the meeting turn into actions

8.  To prevent avoidance of difficult issues

9.  To remove blocks to the process

10. To identify underlying dynamics of the group and adjust accordingly