Meetings that Deliver Results

Some of what we can do:

• Take a rough idea for a meeting and polish it into a design that results in valuable learning and action. This could be a meeting to come up with new ideas, solve a specific problem, kick off a project, or develop some new ways to think or behave.

• Facilitate a single meeting or series of meetings to get the results you want. What distinguishes our meetings is that they crackle with energy and make people feel smart and productive. We don't do the thinking for people but are very skilled at helping them do their best thinking in ways that are both more creative and rigorous. We are highly skilled at using a combination of visual tools that help people open up to be more creative and expansive in their thinking and analytical tools that help them narrow their thinking and make good choices.

• Create a plan for an offsite that is much more engaging and business focused than the usual parade of speakers. We help you create an experience that engages people, increases their learning and motivation and provides information and tools they can use to get specific business results.

• Take any meeting and/ or training event and develop an approach where there is considerable learning based on discussion, introduction of new ideas and models and useful feedback—versus lecture and excessive structure.

An example:

The CEO of a large international firm of very independent general managers with businesses that were currently not very interdependent, scheduled a 1 and ½ day meeting with the purpose of making them into a community, so Jeannie:

• Talked with each participant to get their take on the future business strategy and their sense of the state of current collaboration.

• Helped the CEO clarify the future business strategy and model that was driving his sense of the need for more collaboration—in the future cross business solutions would be a key part of the strategy.

• Developed and facilitated a meeting that started with projecting the future business strategy in a way that built the demand for more interdependence and used assessments and tools for improving the ways the general managers interacted.

Resulting in a new found practical understanding of what issues and in what time frame the general managers needed to collaborate and new skills and approaches for discussing cross unit issues and opportunities.