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FACILITATED
MEETINGS: Decision-making Breakthroughs
There are
times when clients ask Nance to facilitate one-day Board
meetings, special topic meetings or problem solving retreats.
Rather than providing traditional retreat experiences to teach
new skills or generate teamwork, these meetings help an
organization that has a single point focus and is often on a
deadline driven mission.
Or, they help a group of senior
executives get past roadblocks and make key decisions.
Sometimes clients just want a facilitator who has a
background, such as Nance has, in working
with sensitive and often politically charged topics among
high-level participants.
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Examples of the types of
strategic focus meetings that Nance has facilitated include:
- University
Board of Directors refocusing direction and increase its
fundraising
- Hospital
Board exploring expansion and seeking to enroll and engage
constituents
- Statewide
Consortium of CEO's and senior officials representing
public education organizations sought to expand its influence
as an advocate for children and for improving the quality of
public education
- Statewide
medical society was challenged in creating a mentoring
initiative for doctors and was seeking a breakthrough in how
to proceed.
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"Nance
has facilitated retreats for us involving board members,
physicians, scientists, and other key leaders. She helped us
crystallize the agendas and 'real' objectives of the meetings,
and served as a catalyst for collaborative decision
making." MORE
W. Jarrard Goodwin, MD, FACS
Director, University of Miami Sylvester
Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Approach:
Applying communication tools to unlock solutions
This special
meeting-retreat service includes helping clients hone in on
the objectives and identifying the existing and potential
roadblocks and the breakthrough points. Using a proprietary
breakthrough model of problem solving, Nance helps clients
identify specific outcomes that would result in success.
Applying her journalistic experience in collecting data and
discerning untold stories, she uses a strategic interview
process with a cross-section of participants to discern how to
help the group achieve its goals. Then she works with the
client to make sure that participants are heard and
understood.
As a result, previously unresolved issues are constructively
dealt with, generating the needed breakthroughs and progress
the clients seek.
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