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Consensus Consulting
Group (CCG) was founded in September 2001 by Glenn
J. Conger. Glenn has accumulated nearly 30 years of experience in a wide
range of manufacturing, marketing, and research settings. CCG offers a
suite of services including strategic and tactical planning, new-product
development, problem solving, brainstorming, team building, and
project/program management.
To differentiate itself from the abundance of similar
consulting offerings, CCG has made facilitation of group processes the
cornerstone of its practice. Think of ‘facilitated group processes’
as ‘meetings…on steroids’. Traditional ‘meetings’ are often
no more than top-down broadcasts of information. Group processes are
working meetings, in which the group takes on its own identity and sense
of accountability. Group processes produce mission-specific outcomes that
provide energy and support for action.
Facilitated group processes are excellent vehicles for
discovering or clarifying issues…especially where the stakeholders may
have diverse backgrounds and/or divergent views. An effectively
facilitated group process can get the stakeholders ‘on the same page’ by
developing a consensus on the identity of the issue(s), objectives,
scope-of-work, and plan-of-attack for moving forward.
A skillfully facilitated group process affords CCG and the
Client an opportunity to accomplish meaningful work toward defining
problems and solutions, while testing the quality of their rapport. If the
‘marriage’ between CCG and the Client appears to be a good one, then the
outcomes of the initial facilitated group process will ideally translate
into a longer-term engagement…wherein CCG and the Client will work
together to accomplish the scope-of-work that has been defined.
The CCG business model is based upon establishing
long-term, partner-like working relationships with a relatively limited
number of valued Clients. The pool of potential Clients for CCG cuts
across all segments of public and private enterprise, including:
traditional businesses (large and small), trade and professional
organizations, civic and social groups, governmental bodies, and church
groups.
The utility of CCG’s services is not a function of
the size of the enterprise. It is, rather, a function of the
size of the group that must be convened…and the criticality
of the outcomes of their meeting. Very small enterprises, for
example, often have occasion to pull together large working groups
composed of extremely diverse constituents who must act in concert upon
some very important matters.
© 2001-2005, Consensus
Consulting. All rights reserved.
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