Facilitation
TeamThink offers facilitation services to:
- Brainstorm
- Mediate specific issues when a leadership team is struggling to achieve consensus
- Kick start initiatives (e.g., helping a management team develop a vision or mission to initiate strategic planning)
- Review a preliminary draft of a key business documents (e.g., strategic plan, marketing plan)
- Plan during quarterly or annual reviews
Approach
- Preliminary meeting to identify specific issues to address
- Where required, interviews are conducted with stakeholders to understand viewpoints on a key issue(s) and gather background information
- Develop meeting agenda(s)
- Facilitate meeting(s)
- Post meeting report and notes
Success
TeamThink facilitated meetings to obtain input for a Regulation Plan on behalf of an agriculture producer association. The Regulation Plan stipulated items such as the organization's mandate, organizational structure, governance model; and roles and responsibilities of its members. TeamThink facilitated a meeting with an advisory board consisting of industry experts and representatives of other key associations in their sector. TeamThink then facilitated five meetings with producers in various locales to obtain their feedback. The meetings yielded required input to begin drafting the plan. The meetings also achieved the goal of building credibility for the association and its management team as producers felt engaged in the process.
While subcontracted by a consulting company, TeamThink's principal facilitated a full-day Board meeting for a research institute at a post-secondary school. The inaugural Board had disagreements hindering the start up of the institute. The meeting was designed to address these issues. By creating a forum of candid dialog, Board members were able express their differing philosophies on how the organization should be governed. Energy was then refocused on discussing the institute's direction. The meeting goal of developing preliminary vision, mission and values statements was achieved.