Meeting Design and Facilitation—Maximize Participation and Results

“Meetings” have unfortunately earned a bad name. Most of us spend a significant portion of our days and weeks in unproductive meetings—so much so that the word is almost synonymous with waste.

For special events such as retreats for board members or meetings that bring together a variety of stakeholders working toward an important mutual outcome, meeting design is a skill unto itself.

Joyce Bader Consulting excels at designing meetings to maximize participation, creativity and results. We apply our extensive experience in adult learning, group dynamics, experiential design and communication skills to take your group from flat energy, meandering topics and low results to high energy, focused discussion and high results.

We typically pair meeting design with facilitation services so that you and other participants are free to interact, create and reach conclusions. Expert facilitation helps to ensure that:

• The meeting design is implemented—or can be revised in the moment as the group’s dynamic requires
• Members fully participate
• Positions are made clear
• Problem-solving and conflict management tools are subtlety introduced to promote productive discussion and resolution
• Members own the meeting’s results

With 30 years of experience, Joyce Bader Consulting is able to provide these services efficiently, allowing your group or organization to move through a critical process in a way that energizes participants and commits them to productive solutions.