Professional Facilitation
Trained and experienced Hayes consultants can provide facilitation to help make your next meeting more effective and efficient. Hayes provides professional facilitators for off-site meetings, internal cross-functional meetings or regular team meetings. We will work with you to determine the meeting outcomes, set an agenda that is aggressive but comprehensive, and actively facilitate the meeting allowing all attendees (including the leader) to participate. Hayes will provide summary actions and follow-up to ensure these actions are being completed.
Facilitation Expertise
Our clients have used our facilitation expertise for:
- Developing teamwork
- Off-site meetings
- Mergers between organizations
- Cooperation between out-sourced organizations
- Management retreats
- Strategic planning
- Conflict resolution
- Brainstorming sessions
Why use a Hayes professional facilitator?
- Efficient use of time (the outside facilitator can move the meeting to a successful end)
- Allows all to participant (including the meeting leader)
- Provides an “outside” perspective that clarifies actions by asking the “right questions”
- Handles conflict from an external perspective – no taking sides or being seen as taking sides
- Captures just the Actions – and drives to ask “who will do this and when” – to allow accountability
- Creates the summary actions and follows-up
- Provides hands-on exercises (if needed) to help learn teamwork or other leadership principles
- Lets the leader forget about logistics, materials, agendas – by providing all materials and coordinating with the right people for logistics
