Client: Our leadership team offsite is a waste of time and yields no value!
Client: Our leadership team offsite is a waste of time and yields no value!
Matt: Sounds like your meetings are falling short of your expectations.
Client: Yes, we never complete our planned agenda, a small number of participants dominate the conversation, others are multi-tasking, and we rarely follow through on our action items.
Matt: Have you considered working with an external facilitator to help you to design and execute your offsite against a set of clear objectives?
Client: Sounds expensive.
Matt: What value would you place on a leadership offsite that addressed the concerns you’ve raised, and at which participants deemed it a positive investment in the organization’s ability to achieve its goals?
Client: Tell me more.
Matt: Facilitators are instrumental in making important meetings effective, efficient, and productive. The facilitator acts as a leader to navigate a group of people towards achieving a specific set of meeting goals. The facilitator extracts insight, knowledge, wisdom, and the experience of the group and uses it to foster constructive conflict, thoughtful dialog, and group decision processes. Expert facilitators:
Clarify goals
Design and guide proceedings
Steer focus and activity
Facilitate discussion
Tap sources of energy
Foster discovery
Involve everyone
Confirm progress
Drive decision making
Capture actions
In short, meetings designed and facilitated by a dedicated expert resource consistently generate organizational value through realization of pre-determined, intentional meeting outcomes and lasting results.
Client: Sounds like something we should explore further.
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Matt Swayhoover is the founder of Viaduct Performance Consulting, a Northern Virginia-based business focused on helping individuals, teams and organizations bridge the gap between potential and business results. As principal performance consultant, Matt collaborates with clients to identify and courageously address the obstacles that constrain high performance.
Learn more at www.viaductperformance.com