Facilitating a meeting is different than presenting information at a meeting. The book also offers new crosscultural examples and an ancillary website with. Get the kindle edition at thoroughly revised and updated, michael wilkinsons 2nd edition of the secrets of facilitation delivers a clear vision of facilitation excellence and reveals the specific techniques effective facilitators use to produce consistent, repeatable results with groups. This unique guide takes strategic planning to a new and more powerful level. Certainly, he or she must keep the planning team on track so that their resultant product is a viable, implementable strategic plan. How to facilitate a stratey workshop chiswick consulting. Strategic planning facilitator and meeting facilitation. This strategy will then inform decisions about what to focus on, how to organize work, where to prioritise spend.
Five easy strategies to facilitate a roomful of extraverts and introverts grow people. Listen for underlying issues, concerns or emotions. Despite a wide variety of content sessions, which range from assisting garbage workers in developing a plan for implementing twoperson crews, to facilitating a task force on ending homeless, to guiding an executive team through strategic planning, the process we use in the first meeting is very similar. For a collaborative meeting, invite meeting attendees to tell you what problems the team needs to solve or what changes the team needs to pursue. So, being able to successfully run a meeting is as important as what you cover in it. Jan 11, 2017 a skilled facilitator can make a meeting feel thoughtful, cohesive, participatory, and even enjoyable. How to prepare for your strategic planning meeting. What a facilitator does is plan, guide and manage a group event to ensure that the groups objectives are met effectively, with clear thinking, good participation and full buyin from everyone who is involved. Selecting a meeting process is the core of your facilitation strategy and requires pre meeting thought. Whether youre getting started or finetuning efforts in progress, this comprehensive toolkitina book will help you make your vision work.
Involve your facilitator in designing your planning. One of the first books i read on facilitation that gives a helpful framework for thinking about meetings and various strategies to serve groups. How to facilitate a strategic planning session in 2020. Facilitating success in the first task force meeting. The author, a noted strategy consultant since 1980, shares his timetested methodologies for successfully meeting this complex challenge.
I understand the intent of using a psychiatrist as a metaphor for design facilitation, but i think communicating the value of a good design strategy in someones native vocabulary is a different goal than actually analyzing and. Instead of just one facilitator you could have two or more people sharing the different tasks. Select a number of questions, write each on an index card, and distribute. Top facilitation booksresources great facilitated meetings blog. About fsg fsg is a missiondriven consulting firm supporting leaders in creating largescale, lasting social change. Tips for facilitating virtual meetings on skype on. In aas 2007 triennial survey of over 8,000 members from the u. Facilitating the identification and subsequent adoption of opportunities for improvement. In todays business world, its not only what you do, but how you do it thats important. Introduction to planning and facilitating effective meetings about this publication introduction to planning and facilitating effective meetings is the sixth in a series of guides developed to bring information to coastal managers about the use of social science tools in their field of work. Next, plan the attendee list and send out email invitations that include all of the necessary information. The person responsible for facilitating a strategic planning meeting faces a multidimensional challenge keeping the planning team on track, assuring that all focus on the critical, longterm issues, and guiding the discussion of highly sensitive issues. In a way, in fact, to run a meeting effectively calls upon you to act the way a skilled athletic coach does, watching the action, calling plays, and encouraging good performance.
This book serves as a guide for those responsible for facilitating strategic planning meetings. This is based on facilitating many conference calls between 5 15 people at any one time. How to facilitate a strategy meeting onstrategy resource. The executive guide to facilitating strategy is an exceptional tool for developing and leading the strategy process for an organization. Our skilled facilitators guide the meeting so you dont have to, allowing you to fully engage and focus on the dialogue with your team. Facilitation of monthly strategy meetings is key to implementing your strategic plan and making strategy a habit for everyone involved. Fortunately theres an increasing amount of information on the web, a number excellent books on the topic and some great training courses available and since its an everexpanding world, the more you look the more youll find. If lightning or crushing winds dont destroy it, it will simply run out of gas. Preparing a final report based on the results of the offsite session.
Facilitating intentional group learning a practical guide to 21 learning activities. Options for communicating the resultant strategic plan to others in the organization. Holding meetings helps focus your goals on accomplishing top priorities and accelerating growth of the organization. This book is like having an executive mba program in facilitating strategy at your. Strategic planning facilitator and meeting facilitation services. Facilitating involvement in alcoholics anonymous during. A strategy consultants guide by bill birnbaum available from rakuten kobo. In essence, the facilitators purpose is to ensure that the meeting runs smoothly from organization, to start, to finish. Strategic planning process with minimal effort a compass book book. The 8part guide to leading a successful strategy meeting. Only schedule a meeting if you are clear on why you need one and what its goals are. It is the only book that integrates the planning process with team decision making and the facilitation skills needed to make them effective.
A corporation without a strategy is like an airplane weaving through stormy skies, hurled up and down, slammed by the wind, lost in the thunderheads. In 2007, there were more than 1,000 aa groups in existence worldwide. Youll find it to be equally helpful for both the internal strategic planning person, and the external strategy consultant. I have been facilitating many meetings using skype and have some observations to share. Not all the points mentioned may be appropriate use your own judgement and innovation. The facilitator must also assure that a room full of. Every facilitator has a different style, and every group has different dynamics.
Alcoholics anonymous aa was founded with the goal of helping individuals who suffer from alcoholism. The secrets of facilitation, second edition autographed copy. Im often asked where to find facilitation games and formats for agile teams. Deferring often, the best strategy is to invite participants to come up after the session and arrange for a time to talk about the disagreement further, and then move the discussion on to another topic. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the executive guide to facilitating strategy. A meetingwhether online or facetofaceis a precious use of time. Apr 11, 2016 the person responsible for facilitating a strategic planning meeting faces a multidimensional challenge keeping the planning team on track, assuring that all focus on the critical, longterm issues, and guiding the discussion of highly sensitive issues. The highly anticipated second edition to the secrets of facilitation is here. The person responsible for facilitating a strategic planning meeting faces a multidimensional challenge. The meeting process is the method by which you meet goals. Our experience so far is that skypes voice conferencing is more stable than video conferencing.
How to facilitate a strategy workshop a key skill for any business consultant working with a top team is the ability to help them clarify and define their strategy. Strategic planning meetings can be challenging if you have never had one before. The definition of facilitate is to make easy or ease a process. Common organizational structures found in facilitation books like facilitating with ease bens, 2012, pp. The executive guide to facilitating strategy provides executives, leaders and facilitators with a stepbystep resource for guiding their team through all phases of the strategic planning process from gaining the teams buyin to do planning and identify strategic issues, all the way through organization alignment, implementation, monitoring. These meetings are all about strategic objectives or goals. A meeting facilitator is person responsible for leading a meeting.
Strategic planning meeting facilitation and consulting services we facilitate strategic planning meetings to help your team get aligned around a clear vision and action plan. Using a facilitator enables everyone to participate fully and it provides a safe environment in which creative dialogue can take place. If you are facilitating your next meeting, create a few high level objectives for the day and focus on getting those accomplished first. Here are some tips for preparing for and facilitating a meeting that gets things done. A picture of some of our meeting books on the conference table. These two professors, and game strategy theorists, use case studies from pop culture, history and sports to prove how individual and business interactions can use game components as. Using a facilitator enables everyone to participate fully and it provides a safe environment in which creative dialogue can take place engaging a professional facilitator is a good idea when you want to organize a workshop or strategy meeting, and you want to participate in the discussion during the workshop, instead. Most committees ive served on have been inefficient, superfluous, repetitive, sluggish, unproductive, erratic, rancorous, or boringor all of the above. Its important that these tasks happen, but it doesnt have to be the facilitator that does. Improve meeting productivity, communication, and outcomes. As a facilitator, im usually in control of meetings and rarely walk away feeling as if a meeting was a waste of time. The executive guide to facilitating strategy kindle edition by wilkinson, michael.
Identify guidelines for facilitating a meeting effectively. This involves both working with the interview summary results and addressing additional questions within the room. Although the meeting structure is relatively simple, it does require a high degree of discipline. To reduce wasted time during online meetings, make sure to. This chapter gives an overview of the tasks facilitators may need to undertake in a meeting. Ally is big ducks director of strategy and she is really an expert in facilitating online meetings. A short guide to facilitating meetings seeds for change. Through strategy, evaluation, and research we help many types. Wilkinson, certified master facilitator and ceo, leadership strategies. She has, led meetings, online for organizations we work with around the country, probably, maybe internationally. This book takes the strategic practice of roberts rules in competitive committees head. Facilitating intentional group learning collective impact.
Cofacilitators can take turns facilitating and support. The top 15 strategic management books startup grind. You might have a strategic planning agenda or strategic planning. A skilled facilitator adapts to the needs of each particular team and meeting. The executive guide to facilitating strategy by michael. To facilitate a meeting, start by nailing down details like the purpose, major discussion topics, start and end times, location, and how the attendees should prepare for the meeting.
Choose one question at a time and toss it out to the group. This study examined a 12stepbased directive strategy and a motivational enhancement strategy for facilitating involvement in alcoholics anonymous. Introduction to planning and facilitating effective meetings. Mastering how to facilitate a meeting with confidence can help improve team communication, move a project towards completion, and establish you as a true leader.
They just need to know if a particular strategy is on track and on budget. Make sure the topics are ones that allow for group participation. Facilitating an offsite meeting to work through the five discussions. Each strategy was implemented in the context of a 12session skillsbased outpatient alcoholism treatment protocol. Improve meeting productivity, communication, and outcomes by. Facilitating strategic planning meetings by bill birnbaum. The facilitation plan can be printed or stored on a tablet to. Jun 16, 2014 mastering how to facilitate a meeting with confidence can help improve team communication, move a project towards completion, and establish you as a true leader. Teambased strategic planning is intricate and complex. If you have an online meeting of 30 people for an hour, thats 30 people hours.
Book a facilitator to design, organize and facilitate your. From initial concept to final implementation, this is the practical and dynamic resource that youll consult day after day, year after year. Facilitating definition, to make easier or less difficult. Each member or a team of 23 takes a card and answers the question. Find out how we help high growth companies execute their growth strategies and win. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. A game theorists guide to success in business and life by avinash k. Engaging a professional facilitator is a good idea when you want to organize a workshop or strategy meeting, and you want to participate in the discussion during the workshop, instead of having to manage the. It requires care, vigilance, flexibility, resilience, humility, and humor.
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