Use Our Meeting Facilitation Services

Our expert facilitators will make your next breakthrough meeting really great. Unbiased, expert help can make all the difference in determining whether or not your challenge is resolved in a timely manner.

Clients retain our services to lead a wide variety of high-stakes™ meetings. They understand the need to work smarter, think faster and act faster.

"Lynda thanks for the great job at the facilitation and
for your thorough follow-up. You're a champ!"

- Kathy Myers, President, de Bono Thinking Systems

Four key reasons to invest in our unbiased High-Stakes™ Meeting Facilitation Service: 

1. The group has been working on the challenge for months and has not made acceptable progress towards a workable solution. They are stuck and don't know how to move forward to a successful solution that can be implemented and supported.

2. To save money, time and frustration. It is often cheaper to hire a skilled facilitator who knows how to broaden the perception of each person in the group—a key to arriving at successful solutions that can be supported and implemented.

3. Build badly needed support for a key business initiative. An unbiased outsider can really help break apart the barriers and guide the group to uncover meaningful value that can be supported and acted upon.

4. To level the playing field that is littered with out of control egos that are holding back any glimmer of hope for supportable and actionable solutions.

Breakthrough Meeting Facilitation Service

Our facilitation expertise can be put to work in client meetings that need breakthroughs. Here are some examples of meetings that benefit from our facilitation expertise.:

• Old ways are no longer effective — the group is frustrated — the same old ideas keep surfacing.

• Audacious goals have been set — you need help with idea generation to meet the goals.

• The group has met a number of times to resolve a tough challenge — there is no action plan or end in sight.

• The challenge is emotional, controversial, or represents a major change.

• The team is bogged down in a mountain of data and can’t get moving.

• Important decisions keep getting put off because no one wants to be responsible in case things don’t work out.

• A team off-site is planned and you want to have the group work on a current challenge during one portion of the meeting.

• A major change has just been announced and will require new thinking and lots of action.

• A business disaster just occurred.

Our professional facilitators hold the global de Bono Thinking Systems Facilitator credential. They have invested in extensive training, completed fieldwork that meets our high standards, and have worked with many different types of groups and challenges. Our tools stand the test of time.

Our de Bono Breakthrough Meeting Facilitators will work with you to:

• Plan, organize, and lead meetings using appropriate de Bono tools.

• Define and test the overall goal to ensure a successful outcome.

• Decide what can be done in advance of the meeting to save time during the meeting.

• Prepare an action plan to deal with the output.

• Decide who should attend the meeting and for what purpose.

• Ensure the group stays on track throughout the meeting.

• Minimize ego plays among the group.

• Interview appropriate attendees in advance to gather helpful information.

• Expand the thinking of the group to ensure the challenge is successfully resolved.

• Remain neutral.

• Define how decisions are going to be made.

• End with an action plan that will be supported and can be implemented.

• Offer suggestions to make your meetings stimulating, enjoyable and useful.

Code of Ethics: We follow the International Association of Facilitators code of ethics.

Confidentiality: We always keep the information you share with us confidential and will sign your confidentiality agreements.

“The Six Thinking Hats® methodology was openly embraced by the advisors and we truly got much more robust output from the meeting than conventional advisory boards.” — Betsey King, Professional Relations & Education Manager, AstraZeneca

Coaching for Breakthrough Meetings: This service is helpful if you are planning to lead a meeting/retreat and just realized you need a facilitator — there just isn’t time or budget to secure one right now. We will give you lots of ideas that will improve your meeting. Coaching conversations will be scheduled over the phone and via email exchanges.

Meetings that are a day or less $497.00
Meetings that are more than a day $1,197.00
Call: 818-507-6055 to book this coaching service.

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Become an Expert de Bono Thinking Systems Facilitator: Click here to learn the ways you can attend our advanced Focus on Facilitation™ workshop to develop this important skill set.