Anyone who has ever run a meeting knows how tricky successful strategic facilitation can be. It’s important to find the perfect balance between holding firm and yielding, progressing and allowing for discussion, and being guided by the big picture while endorsing smaller-scale action. By consulting with a proven strategic planning facilitator, you’ll gain access to an expert who knows how to nimbly employ the following seven methods in service of your company’s success.
1. Provide Everyone a Clear, Concise Agenda, and Stick to it
Begin every meeting by ensuring that all participants are aware of your carefully-planned and logical agenda. Don’t allow distractions and digressions to push you wildly off-course.
2. Ask the Right Questions
Constantly demonstrate to the key decision makers that you are committed to their success. Treat the company’s future as if you have a personal stake in its achievements.
3. Take Ownership of the Company
Constantly demonstrate to the key decision makers that you are committed to their success. Treat the company’s future as if you have a personal stake in its achievements.
4. Follow Through on Action Plans
Devising a cohesive, robust strategic plan with the buy-in of all necessary parties is no small feat, but the work never ends there. Continue to engage with the action plan owners and hold them accountable for following through on what was agreed upon.
5. Don’t Allow Anyone to Monopolize the Proceedings – Especially Yourself!
Don’t neglect the research that needs to be done before the meeting begins. Organize all of your necessary industry trends, company performance data, results of past action plans, etc. so that they will be readily available and digestible for the participants when the time comes.
6. Organize Essential Information
Don’t neglect the research that needs to be done before the meeting begins. Organize all of your necessary industry trends, company performance data, results of past action plans, etc. so that they will be readily available and digestible for the participants when the time comes.
7. Be Transparent
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