Meeting Design & Facilitation

Are you planning your meetings to get you where you need to go? Or are you just “having a meeting”?

Save time and Improve Results by having CSF support your next meeting, event or off-site.

Call today for a free initial consultation to identify ways you can meet more effectively and generate productive, long lasting results.

CSF provides support for a range of meeting needs including

Team development
Conference design
Stakeholder input and engagement
Participatory data gathering and review
Annual planning
Strategic thinking and planning
Program and project planning
Mission, vision, values development

Meetings veer off topic
They're inconclusive: Neither decisions nor assignments are made, often because one-third of the people who should be present aren't
They lack rules, purpose and agendas. One-third of those attending have no idea why they're there. Another third claim to have no say in decisions
They're too long. Fifty percent of those surveyed say meetings are a total waste of time
The meeting facilitator has little control and is disorganized

Source: Survey of more 1,800 managers by Roger K. Mosvick, a professor of communication studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn.

Every day in the US, over 11 million meetings are held. Recent surveys show a trend to more time spent in meetings. A 2005 survey conducted by Microsoft of 38,000 workers found that they averaged only three productive days per week. For 69% of respondents, the culprit was unproductive meetings that wasted time.

Center For Strategic Facilitation

The power of participation: training, facilitation, consultation

Meeting Design & Facilitation

CSF provides support for a range of meeting needs including