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 Every enterprise or
institution has meetings. Some meetings prove to be invaluable turning
points. Many more meetings, unfortunately, fail to develop a group
consensus on critical issues and action-plans. Too often, there is little
buy-in, little action, and…disappointing results.
For as long as people have worked together in groups, reaching consensus
has been a challenge. Be that as it may, meetings are still
arguably the best tools available for identifying opportunities and
problems...and for building group consensus on what to do about
them. The outcomes of high-quality group interactions are a
cornerstone of effective management.
Even for the most
carefully planned meetings, it is not uncommon for the participants to
come together with differing agendas, skepticism, or even hostility.
Sometimes…everybody just has to “suck it up and get on with the
drill”…possibly ending up with a mediocre outcome, having all the earmarks
of a group that merely ‘went through the motions’. But, sometimes…this
just isn’t good enough.
Sometimes…the potential impact of a meeting is
so great that the working group absolutely MUST leave the meeting
having become stakeholders in the outcomes, if the enterprise is going to
move forward. Assuring that there is value in the
outcomes of your meetings is CCG's
Mission. CCG Can Provide
StoryBoard-Based
Meeting Facilitation Services: Unproductive meetings mean
missed expectations and lost opportunities...with costly repercussions.
CCG's assistance toward achieving high-quality meeting outcomes is a
cost-effective countermeasure in those cases where your gathering will
have two, or more, of the following factors at play.
- Size and Scope: Consists of
5-30 participants and requires 1 hour, or more, to complete.
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Spontaneity: Requires sharing…or even discovering…information or ideas that will
clearly not be available to the group if the meeting were not convened.
- Conflicting Agendas:
Deals with issues that are
(or have a likelihood of proving to become) controversial or
volatile.
- Innovation:
Involves
development of innovative courses of action that may have no precedent.
- Significant Cost of Failure:
Has an ultimate dollar impact on the enterprise of $5,000, or more.
CCG Can Support the
Implementation of the
Outcomes of Facilitated Group Sessions:
- Revitalization: Translation of group process outcomes into
specific statements of Mission and/or Vision, and the identification of
new organizational structures and practices to facilitate continuous
improvement.
- Documentation: Generation of plans, proposals, procedures,
policies, and methods…in a variety of formats.
- New-Product Development: Documentation and implementation of
the disciplined Stage-Gate NPD process, specifically adapted to client
needs and business culture.
- Research: Investigation, interpretation, and reporting of
literature/patent reviews, opportunity assessments, market research, and
competitive intelligence.
- Project Management: Definition and management of objectives,
resources, tactical plans, and variances.
CCG Can Provide Training in StoryBoarding Techniques:
- Flexible Format: Half-day, or full-day, training
formats.
- Practical Skills: An excellent skills-oriented session
that can be beneficially included as a module within virtually any
broader program of leadership development.
- Hands-On: StoryBoarding is a practical,
roll-up-your-sleeves, meeting facilitation tool that can be practiced
successful without expensive equipment or technology.
- Immediate Utility: Team Leaders, Project Managers, and
heads of formal (or informal) work groups...having missions of virtually
any description...will all find StoryBoarding to be an ideal tool that
can be put to immediate use.
- Tangible Results: Trained staff need not be 'experts'
to see really remarkable outcomes using StoryBoarding, even where
reaching consensus seems a challenge.
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