Productive Meetings
Focused Conversation
The Focused Conversation is a structured process that facilitates a meaningful exchange of ideas. Often there is confusion, disagreement, and dysfunction within groups around difficult issues because individuals are at different stages of a natural problem-solving process: - identifying the facts, - relating them to their own experience, - understanding the implications, and - determining appropriate responses. If steps of this natural process are skipped in the group setting inappropriate decisions are made. The Focused Conversation method brings everybody along through the necessary process so that each individual is at a place where they can work together as a group to quickly surface and capture ideas that represent the group's best thinking.
Consensus Workshop
Do you need to identify, focus on, or build consensus around critical issues in complex situations? The consensus workshop is a 1 1/2 hour structured process that focuses on a critical issue or question. The consensus workshop taps rational, creative, and intuitive thought processes. It productively captures, channels and organizes diverse ideas and thoughts to generate a new and clear understanding of the situation or options. - Quickly capture the groups best thinking - Reach new levels of creativity and cooperation - Energize problem-solving - Build active participation and teamwork - Produce consensus decisions everyone can own and support - Integrate diverse ideas - Generates practical and creative solutions - Develops group consensus - Deepen commitment towards effective action