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Facilitation Services
Summit Consultants provides meeting facilitation focused on achieving results! We facilitate both large and small groups using proven techniques designed to achieve collaboration and accomplish the client's objectives.
- Strategic Planning
- Strategic Planning for Boards, Government, and Non-Profits
- Action Planning
- Conflict Resolution
- Process Improvement
- Organizational Redesign
- Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award based organizational assessments (We are experienced in the Georgia Oglethorpe and the Texas Awards for Performance Excellence, as well as the Army Performance Improvement Criteria, both in helping organizations compete successfully and in assessing applicants.)
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What our Clients say About our Facilitation Services and Training
"Great job facilitating the meeting. You proved that one can herd cats uphill with a wet rope. Outstanding job. One of the more productive meetings I've been a part of in quite some time."
Johnny – Executive Director - 2007
"I am still processing everything that you taught us and cannot wait to apply the skills and techniques in a meeting."
Heather – Corporate Executive - 2007
"I thought you were a fantastic facilitator and really helped us in honing our objectives, strategies and action plans."
Dina – Meeting Planner - 2008
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Summit Consultants in partnership with Peryam and Associates offers custom designed private courses taught by Certified Professional Facilitators. Our training is based on the certification requirements of the International Association of Facilitators.
Upcoming Classes
Facilitation Basics (3-day) – Atlanta, April 23 - 25, 2012
Advanced Facilitation (2-day) – Atlanta, April 26 & 27, 2012
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Course Descriptions
Facilitation Basics (3 day) – a highly interactive training session for up to 16 participants who lead meetings and work sessions. Taught by Certified Professional Facilitators who are also experienced trainers.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
- Understand the role of the facilitator
- Clearly articulate the leader's objectives
- Design a meeting agenda to achieve the objectives
- Create customized meeting processes
- Maximize team collaboration and commitment to results
- Identify and minimize disruptive behavior
- Keep meetings focused
- Understand the International Association of Facilitators' core competencies
Participants will benefit from:
- Extensive practice and application of skills and concepts
- Individual feedback and coaching
- Learning from Certified Professional Facilitators with practical business experience
- Training that is based on the International Association of Facilitators' "Facilitation Core Competencies"
Facilitation Basics Abbreviated (2 day) – a training session for up to 16 participants who lead meetings and work sessions. An abbreviated Facilitation Basics session designed to introduce the core competencies. Minimal time is spent on practice and application.
Introduction to Facilitation Basics (1 day) – a training session for up to 32 participants who lead meetings and work sessions. An overview of Facilitation Basics session designed to introduce participants to basic facilitation techniques.
The Facilitative Leader (1 day) – A highly interactive training session designed for leaders, those who understand the need to create experiences for a community, group, or team of people that come together and are accountable for something larger than themselves. During this one day course participants will learn a set of concepts and tools to lead groups to higher quality decisions and stronger commitments to outcomes and actions.
As a result of this training, participants will:
- Learn about the qualities of facilitative leaders
- Understand the need to build a community/group/team
- Develop a tool kit of process skills to maximize individual engagement and group collaboration
- Practice using the facilitative leader approach
Participants will benefit from:
- Extensive discussion of skills and concepts
- Individual feedback and coaching
- Learning from Certified Professional Facilitators with practical leadership experience
Advanced Facilitation (2 day) –
a highly interactive training session for up to 16 participants designed for facilitators who have already mastered the basics of facilitating collaborative work sessions and productive meetings.
During this two-day course participants will develop a detailed facilitation plan, learn advanced facilitation skills, and practice advanced tools and techniques. Specific areas of focus will be customized to the participants' needs and based on their experience, and may include how to facilitate large groups, "facilitating on the fly," facilitating non- collocated meetings, and how to plan for multi-session/complex workshops.
The participants will benefit from extensive discussion of processes, tools and techniques and learn from Certified Professional Facilitators.
As a result of this training, participants will:
- Understand how to work with the sponsor to clearly articulate the group's scope of authority
- Design customized approaches for facilitated sessions with a greater understanding of group divergent and convergent thinking
- Learn how to facilitate group ownership and strategies for overcoming challenging meeting behaviors
- Learn the importance of agreeing on criteria before making a decision
- Learn different techniques for measuring meeting effectiveness
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