Great innovations occur when your people play together

A tremendous amount of time and effort is spent planning, scheduling and running group meetings and team discussions. Unfortunately most meetings fail to create the positive energy, effective inquiry, and clear direction that generate new and exciting results.

Good facilitation actively creates opportunities for interaction and generates the creativity required for optimal team performance. This can make all the difference in the quantity and quality of the solutions produced – and the morale and motivation of participants both during and after the meeting.

• Do your group members fully understand the stated goals and how to work together to achieve them?
• Have you created an environment that’s safe for all members to make a contribution or are some withholding or disinterested due to fear, lack of confidence or bullying?
• Do team members respect each other’s perspectives and differences, work with each other’s strengths and cheer each other’s successes?
• Is the group leader able to effectively and objectively voice his or her perspective while simultaneously running the show?

Professional facilitation significantly enhances the effectiveness and productivity of your organization’s team and group meetings.

Jaffe Life Design’s facilitation services will create an energizing atmosphere that encourages all participants, including the leaders, to share their ideas and questions. Our involvement and the professional structure we provide allow the leaders the freedom to focus on the topics and act as participants without the additional concerns of “running the show.” By keeping the participants involved in the discussion and encouraging feedback, team performance can be enhanced as participants take ownership of outcomes.

This paves the way for the decisions and plans made during the meeting to be put into effect when the team returns to the workplace. (Note: this is highly effective when combined with the ongoing accountability that individual coaching provides)

Objectives of Facilitation Services:

• Create ‘ownership’ and accountability by each person of their roles, expectations and performance
• Increase dialogue and constructive feedback while anticipating and resolving conflicts
• Increase effectiveness and efficiency of meetings, resulting in better time management, increased clarity and commitment, and refined focus
• Instill a culture based on trust, partnership and respect where everyone’s voice counts

Meeting Impact: Benefits of Utilizing Outside Facilitation

• Provides needed structure and objective inquiry to keep the meeting on track, increasing meeting efficiency and effectiveness
• Creates a neutral, safe environment where all participants can contribute to their fullest potential
• Focuses participants on their stated objectives and content of their work together, utilizing effective group processes and managing team dynamics
• Achieve better performance while being less controlling and directive and more inquisitive and collaborative
• Liberates the Leader(s) from having to run the meeting so they can fully participate in the discussions
• Increases personal accountability of everyone in the group

Jaffe Life Design Facilitation:

• Provides expert facilitators with extensive experience running and leading meetings, conferences and events
• Can be utilized for everything from a 2 hour planning meeting to weeklong strategic offsites and retreats, internal and client events, and breakout sessions and conferences
• Utilizes proven strategies for ensuring meeting objectives and agendas are well-defined, participants are engaged, and follow up actions are clearly specified and owned

Your time is too important not to make the most of it!

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"Thank you for facilitating and more importantly, being such an integral part of the offsite. You were the perfect blend of Coach, Facilitator, trusted colleague, and friend. As you observed, we are a close group, and it’s not easy for someone to be so readily accepted into our inner circle. You made it look like child’s play."

"We all learned a lot about each other and our business and it was a pleasure to have you lead us through several great discussions. I know I speak for the entire group , when I say, ‘Looking forward to the next one.’"

Nancy Newman,
Senior Vice President
YAHOO!

"Mike left a swath of happy, energized people in his wake. Everyone who saw him speak walked away astonished at having received such positive feedback and encouragement. So give this gift, and in the process, build your own positive, energized, passionate culture."

Noah Blumenthal
Author, You’re Addicted to You: Why
It’s So Hard to Change and What You
Can Do About It
President, Leading Principles, Inc.
Named by Leadership Excellence
Magazine as one of the world’s “Top
100 Minds in Personal Development”
 

"Michael is a gifted person and a talented facilitator and leader. I brought him in to help with a very complex project, and he added significant value to the team. Michael has a sharp mind. He asks good questions and sees the big picture. His style is energetic and warm, and he is quick to build rapport and create a shared game plan. I also admire Michael’s clarity about life balance and his passion for his work."

Elizabeth Balderston,
Managing Director, Marsh Inc.

"“These past few months have been challenging, but positive. We have used the outcomes from our Retreat (that you led for us) as a guide to help us move forward. Based on the resources available to us, we have an emerging plan that we feel good about. Again, thanks for leading a wonderful retreat for us back in February. Your name comes up all the time when planning future meetings or conferences. I am sure we'll want to utilize you again at some point.”

Dan Cardonick
Director of Regional Programs
Young Judaea/Hadassah

"Thanks for opening our minds to help unlock our best professional and personal selves!"

Meredith Momoda,
Director
YAHOO!