Meeting Services

Your content + my process = good outcomes. So, get organised and make sense of both your best ideas and confronting issues.

Great meetings all start from a clear topic. Effective leaders figure out and tackle the important topics.

For each topic, what outcomes are you really after? What is helping or hindering you on the road to those results? What will you have to do to achieve them?

I work with you where ever you are – in business, government, non-profit or a community – to design and run highly participatory meetings, workshops and other events. You can focus your time, energy and headspace on getting your ideas and issues across, while I manage the process.

This supports your needs with immediate, specific benefits:

Elicit consensus in both small groups and large workshops.
Focus on getting outcomes from stakeholder round tables.
Build-in ownership and commitment to these outcomes.
Enable consistent two-way communication by completing learning and feedback loops.

Workshops for results

Setting up and running meetings can be hard work. Don’t waste that effort! Get professional strength help with designing the session, running the process and achieving results.

Outcomes in your company or organisation

...workshops that deliver effective outcomes which everyone stands behind...

Board, management & team meetings:

Make the most of your time together by building a shared understanding of what you all face
Get real value for your collective money by staying on task and on time
Custom agendas that meet your real needs and interests
Achieve real agreement on things to move you forward, or at least be clear what you are disagreeing about

Strategic thinking, planning and action:

Create a practical and comprehensive vision that pulls you into the future
Articulate your real situation, both positive and negative - relative to that vision
Develop innovative strategies grounded in reality
Design and implement action plans that achieve true results

Outcomes in your profession

…meetings and forums that find a way through the unknown…

Multidisciplinary projects:

Start on the right foot with effective scoping and options analysis
Discern and understand all the stakeholders' perspectives
Identify, track and manage risks ~ both negative and positive
Develop solutions and find a way forward
Follow up with comprehensive review and evaluation

Conferences & seminars:

Actually spend time in dialogue with the people and ideas that interest you the most.
Get beyond the usual 20 minute powerpoint download dump, 5 minute Q&A dominated by two people, 5 minute walk to the next session.

Outcomes in your community

…events where people can have a say and contribute meaningfully…

Community engagement:

Build on local people’s expertise to articulate their picture of how things could be
Blend local and expert knowledge into a seamless whole
Enable all participants to have a say and be really heard

Qualitative research:

Get beyond the numbers with rich focus group, content analysis and interview tools

Conversations that matter

People rarely set out to have messy and unproductive discussions. I can help you keep critical conversations focussed and track, through well structured dialogue processes – large and small – that deliver both tangible and intangible outcomes.

Plan & Review

…to see where and how you’re going…

Prepare and plan

Introduce a new training topic
Prepare a short presentation
Prepare a group to write a report
Prepare a meeting agenda
Work on a brochure
Assemble a budget
Redesign office space
Select a conference topic
Design a customer service manual
Initiate market planning
Prepare a strategic presentation on a new product
Create participation guidelines
Build a phased timeline for a restructure project
Assess social trends

Evaluate and review

Review and celebrate the year
Review a consultant’s presentation
Debrief a planning event
Evaluate a seminar
Evaluate a curriculum
Evaluate the progress of a project
Analyse a product that didn’t sell
Evaluate a market package
Review a major report
Evaluate a staff service program
Evaluate a trade show
Evaluate a new business form
Assess the impact of a training experience
Analyse budget performance

Interpret & Decide

…discussions that get to the heart of the matter…

Interpret information

Interpret a story
Share an essay
Discuss a training video
Hold a movie conversation
Hold a news conversation
Ponder organisational change
Appraise a sales offer
Tailor your services to a customer’s needs
Interpret a systems audit
Reflect on a chaotic meeting
Consider the impact of new regulations on a product
Reflect on a proposal for departmental reorganisation

Make a decision

Help a colleague think through a decision
Make assignments within a team
Deciding work practices
Discuss a staff response to a strategy document
Decide on a trade show strategy
Reframe a team’s mission
Determine program priorities
Develop terms of reference for a major project evaluation
Build the annual budget
Deal with work environment issues
Rework office protocol
Name market influences
Highlight the comparative profile of a firm

Manage & Mentor

…working it through for better performance…

Manage and supervise

Canvass employees
Review work descriptions
Interview a job applicant
Conduct a performance appraisal
Assess staff workplace needs
Troubleshoot a stalled project
Interpret a shop floor grievance

Coach and mentor

Coach a colleague
Talk through a job description
Give feedback to an instructor
Discuss a set of employee guidelines
Meditate on a difficult situation
Mentor a staff person
Analyse sales statistics
Deal with delegation issues
Collaborate on a supply problem
Reflect on a transition
New managers’ reflection on their leadership roles