“Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.”
— Noam Chomsky
Facilitation (Virtual and In Person)
We are a society jaded about meetings being a waste of time and money. Results-oriented meetings that make the most productive use of people's time begin with purpose and intentional design.
I can help you structure agendas, build your team’s techniques for more productive meetings, and/or facilitate high-stakes workshops with multiple stakeholders.
The foundations we will set for a productive meeting are as follows:
Specific outcomes you want to achieve for your meeting - if we can’t pinpoint targeted outcomes, you may not have a good reason to conduct a meeting!
Knowing your must-have stakeholders - having the wrong people at the table hampers the results that need to occur post-meeting.
A meeting design that uses the techniques scaled for the purpose and size of your meeting, whether for a weekly status meeting where your objective is accountability to progress, a high-stakes conflict resolution meeting where your objective is to bring parties to a base of shared assumptions, or a 100-person stakeholder requirements gathering workshop.