Linda Crill's Facilitation Services
Group or One–On–One Services
Improve Your Productivity and Move Your Business Forward
Group Facilitation
In our complex world it’s impossible to stay ahead of the competition and constantly reinvent our businesses and processes without collaboration with others inside our organizations as well as with external partnerships.
Ask any leader or professional about how much of their day is spent communicating with others in meetings and their response is most likely over 80%. But when asked how productive those meetings are at driving the organization forward, the percentage drops dramatically. The solution isn’t more meetings, but more effective ones. For critical meetings and for dysfunctional groups, a skilled facilitator trained in group dynamics and process facilitation can make a dramatic difference in their effectiveness.
Linda has has over 20 years experience in the business world using her facilitation skills to assist businesses, associations, and government agencies groups and teams become more productive.
Examples of Group Facilitation Include:
Partnering Sessions
Faced daily with colliding agendas, different perspectives, multiple locations and ever-changing market places it’s normal for tension and conflict to develop between groups that need to collaborate and work together. Whether the breakdown is between internal groups or outsourced partners the cost to morale and productivity is similar. The solution is bringing key players together in a facilitated safe environment to air different perspectives, explore challenges, dialogue about possible solutions and then jointly create an agreements and an action plan to make sure the results are implemented.
Meeting, Conferences & Retreats
Business leaders facilitate many of their own meetings, but when they do, there is always the challenge of juggling two opposing roles. It’s difficult to facilitate a group discussion and simultaneously hold a personal opinion about the subject. This is the reason a professional facilitator adds value by freeing up the leader to do only one role. A facilitator using a variety of process tools can efficiently surface the group’s diverse ideas, lead discussions, and assist the group and/or leader in making quality decisions.
Specialized Content for Group Meetings Include:
- Strategic Planning
- Planning & Goal Setting
- Change Initiatives
- Team Building
- Mergers Between Groups & Organizations
- Building Collaboration/Conflict Resolution
- Process Improvement
- Focus Groups
- Management and Business Retreats
- Board Orientations
One-on-One Facilitation
All of us in business are proficient at some skills, but lacking at others. The purpose of one-on-one facilitation is to (1) identify and strengthen skills sets that need to be developed and/or (2) sort out priorities that need addressing from the multitude of must-dos most of us face everyday.
The Types of One-on-One Facilitation Include:
Executive Strategic Session
The focus of this type of facilitation is to facilitate executives in being more efficient leaders and increasing productivity.
Individual Performance Assessment & Actions
Business leaders need every employee to be working to their highest potential. Often a leader recognizes a person on their team who is not working well with the entire organization. This IPA&F is a service offered to business leaders.
The process includes:
- Meeting with the leader
- A series of several interviews with the individual in question to identify areas of improvement and willingness of individual to make necessary changes
- Recommendation to leader about next steps
- If the areas of improvement can’t be rectified by additional coaching sessions, then the goal may become to help the person to transition to a different job within or outside the organization where they can succeed.
