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You might need a facilitator if…

• you are a recently appointed manager and you experience resistance to your first proposals

• your company is concerned with how important decisions are made during a transition period or reorganization

• you need to energize your staff and encourage participation in decision-making

• you need to persuade your colleagues to embrace new policies, regulations, procedures or processes

• you want to develop trust, cooperation and communication while maintaining a healthy competitive atmosphere among key players

An outside facilitator can...

• Neutralize distrust or bias

• Defuse intimidation

• Reduce antagonism or competition

• Assist problem definition

• Maintain focus

• Downgrade complexity

• Keep the meeting on time

What our facilitation skills can do for you

Salum International Resources has experience in successful facilitation.  Our job as facilitators is to help to monitor, regulate and energize the evolving dynamics of a corporate meeting.  We specifically focus on the way information is exchanged within the group.

• We are able to anticipate the complete problem-solving and decision-making process

• We use our valuable Peak Performance coaching expertise to motivate individuals and groups

• We are skilled in evoking participation and creativity

• We are proficient in reading the underlying dynamics of the group while remaining neutral

• We provide tools and exercises that allow participants to explore new ideas and alternatives

• We manage the emotional waves of the meeting effectively

• We help evaluate multiple issues and diverse perspectives

• We use technology efficiently to provide you with useful assessments

• We enable negotiations by reducing possible areas of tension

• We help you reduce the cost of the meeting

We utilize a systematic approach to organizing a facilitation meeting while remaining flexible to introduce the most appropriate tools and behavioral adjustments.  Here is a short list of key elements to consider during the facilitation event:

Before the meeting:

• Determine purpose, participants and logistics

• Decide on desired outcomes

• Identify tangible goals or objectives of the meeting

• Create the agenda

During the meeting:

• Explain the agenda

• Explain meeting tools to be used during the meeting

• Monitor emotional waves of the meeting

• Introduce breaks with humor, motivational video clips, physical exercise and nutrition

• Keep balance between content and process

• Recording of ideas

• Time control

• List the tasks to be accomplished and to assign people to those tasks

• Document commitments

After the meeting:

• Send action list to all participants (minutes)

• Send list of key decisions made and important information recorded at the meeting

• Conduct Confidential Web Survey to evaluate results of the meeting

• Discuss options for further support through coaching, training (courses/workshops) and teambuilding events

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