Retreats and Facilitation
Never underestimate the value of a good facilitator. Many organizations use professional facilitators to make sure their meetings or retreats are productive, participants are fully engaged, and disagreements are managed effectively.
When would I use a Professional Facilitator?
- Strategic and business planning
- Business process redesign and simplification
- General meeting management, skill-development
- Leadership and Executive Management meetings
- Assessment of current team dynamics
- Steering committee leadership
- Project leadership
What functions do they perform?
- Assists in the design of the planning or meeting process
- Provides overall coordination and assists with selection of attendees
- Coordinates and facilitates specific meetings
- Assures that meeting objectives are achieved
- Synthesizes information between or after meetings for presentation and documentation
- Assists in developing a communication strategy for meeting outcomes
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What is the professional facilitator’s role during a meeting?
- Focus energy
- Stay on track
- Give all group members an equal chance to participate
- Be a process advocate
- Provide a framework to help the group move through the process
- Balance need for structure and need for open time
- Manage time
- Deal with issues or problems in group dynamics; including:
– Unresponsive group
– Gripe sessions
– Digressing group
– Dominating individual
– Conflict
– Low creativity
– Cynical attitudes
Most important, a professional facilitator is unbiased.
As the facilitator, Tammy will make sure your objectives are met while allowing the organization leader to become an equal member of the group. A good facilitator not only makes the meeting process better, but often more enjoyable for all the participants.
Clients RAVE about Tammy…
— Amy Ballance
Healthcare executive with years of proven servant leadership, strategic direction and change management.
Tammy provides a tremendous amount of value to the organizations she works with.
— Travis Ansel
Managing Partner/CEO at HSG; Building High-Performing Physician Networks for Health Systems
Tammy is a wealth of information in Provider Relations and led our team with intelligence, enthusiasm, and wit as we successfully grew our service lines. She’s an engaging speaker, who has the ability to connect with her audience in practical, sincere and often humorous ways.
— Laurie Frank
Physician Liaison, Customer Service at St. Joseph’s Hospital – Highland, IL
