"I didn't bully them - I just gently shoved them in the direction they should have gone in the first place."
Candice Bergen as Murphy Brown

Facilitation

Have you ever attended a meeting that ran too long? Got nothing done? Created more issues than you started with? You are not alone. Most people hate meetings, and for good reason: most meetings are at least twice as long as they need to be, and about half of what could get done, does. Nothing is more irritating than spending an entire morning talking in circles, and nothing kills good ideas faster. What to do?

Facilitating your meetings

Not in these meetings! Ms. Abbott is known for running meetings, seminars, and problem-solving sessions that get the job done and invigorate participants to go and do what they’ve decided on, rather than leaving them in a fugue state or crawling under their desk until there’s a promise of no more meetings.

Clients routinely find that they actually save money, because they get concrete results much faster. When you figure the salaries of all meeting attendees, and multiply that by lost hours, the cost of a professional facilitator swiftly moves from seeming like a luxury to a necessity.

Teaching your facilitators

Ms. Abbott can also train your supervisors, managers, or staff to run meetings that work. In addition to meeting mechanics, facilitators are trained to deal with the various human types in meetings: the person who won’t talk and the one who won’t stop, for example.

Similarly, a variety of techniques for making agendas that are worth the paper they are printed on, problem-solving techniques for keeping the process moving, and record-keeping methods that record what’s critical without bogging down in detail; all of these and more are covered.

Having “real” facilitators for your meetings is not just another management fad. If you’ve ever had a good one, you know. If you haven’t, now is the time to try.

Testimonial:

“I can’t tell you how much we’ve grown to hate meetings around here. The problem is, we really need to solve some of our organizational growth issues. We used to spend four hours a week in ongoing meetings, which would be OK if we were really getting things done, but we weren’t. Ramona came in, and we got more done in the first meeting with her help than we had in the month previous.” - Jack P., V.P., Manufacturing.

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