Facilitate Plans and Team Achievement

Skilled facilitation can align and strengthen your team as its members define and plan for vital strategic and operational results. Action-learning components on collaboration and team leadership can enhance team leadership and planning capability at home.

What We Do As Your Facilitators:

We assist teams to: a) identify and engage stakeholders; b) describe shared vision, values, principles and desired results; c) develop and commit to strategic and operational plans; and d) document these plans. As appropriate to your purpose, we provide the following services:

1. Consult with sponsors and designated leaders or stakeholders to define specific outcomes for planning meetings or Conferences;
2. Collect and/or analyze data on relevant stakeholder interests and organizational issues;
3. Develop your agenda and support material;
4. Assist participants to prepare for productive planning (through, for example, pre-event data collection and review);
5. Conduct planning events to clarify desired results, focus interaction, build mutual trust, assist team alignment, encourage creative contribution, and guide collaborative achievement of outcomes;
6. Document ideas, recommendations, and decisions from planning events;
7. Provide follow-up coaching on Plan implementation.

Vision-to-Action Collaborative Planning:

Vision-to-Action events are customized to your needs, priorities, and timeframe. A two-person facilitation team, dedicated to your project, will work with you to design and conduct planning activities. Services combine sponsor consultation, stakeholder and issue analysis, and results management instruction with facilitation of events designed to achieve what you want. Documentation of strategic and/or operational plans and follow-up coaching on implementation is available to assist next steps.

The outcomes:

• A results-based plan that reflects and strengthens the shared vision, purpose, and accountability of those who participate, and
• A cohesive team with members who are committed to collaborative success.

A version of this Conference is also available for delivery aboard cruise ships as a special event.

Teaming Up for SMART Results:

"Teaming Up for SMART Results" offers your team a 2-day opportunity to renew and plan as members learn about and practice teamwork tools that get results.  Using a contemporary model of team development, participating teams members will identify desired project or process improvement outcomes, and develop practical plans for achieving results and a framework for sustaining high performance.

The outcomes:

• Shared mission, vision, and project or process improvement outcomes,
• SMART operational results as targets for plans that contribute to these outcomes,
• Action plans to achieve, monitor, and evaluate progress toward desired results,
• A roadmap that enables staff to integrate and track project or service responsibilities. and
• A renewed sense of commitment, direction, and teamwork.

A version of this workshop is also available for delivery aboard cruise ships as a special event

Collaborating Organizations, or Joint Venture Partners,  Develop a Value Proposition, Partnerships, and  Practical Plans To Serve Common Customers

Working Together:

Effective collaborative planning offers a powerful solution to energizing partnerships, joint ventures, teamwork, and shared success across units and organizations.

"Working Together” is an action-oriented workshop that builds participant capacity to work together and to lead high-performing teams, or merge two or more teams into one high performing team. Training on team performance, results management, and effective collaboration is accomplished through development of actual priority initiatives. ‘Working Together’ can assist multi-team or multi-organization planning, units experiencing a merger, or team leaders who want a reliable strategy for guiding their team to high performance.

Benefits:

• Participants from two or more units or organizations gain a reliable strategy and set of supporting tools for achieving prioirty results via teamwork and collaboration;
• Clear, specific, written results to be achieved by the team, aligned with and directly supporting organizational priorities;
• Action plans to achieve agreed results, including team member responsibilities/accountabilities;
• Sense of teamwork, accountability, and specific actions for collaborative work.

How to Plan and Lead a Focus Group:

This two-day workshop introduces a practical "Do-it-Yourself" method to plan and lead an effective Focus Group. We partner with your organization to demonstrate this method to workshop participants by running an actual focus group.