How to Plan, Design and Run Effective Meetings

Facilitation is a process –a means of leading a group to a decision. Strategy Solutions’ experienced facilitators can help you plan, design and run effective meetings. Our professionals use a combination of approaches —consensus building, exploration of strengths and weaknesses, and team-building exercises—to ensure that your meetings are productive and efficient.

Meeting facilitation can be used for:

  • Decision making
  • Idea generation and prioritization
  • Vetting concerns about a new initiative or idea and develop consensus
  • Process evaluation and action planning

Strategy Solutions uses OptionFinder (a wireless audience electronic polling system) to collect and tabulate group input (a handheld wireless keypad is given to each group member). Option Finder accommodates groups of 5 to 500 people. Using the Option Finder software, we present questions or statements on a projection screen with a list of responses from which the participants choose.  OptionFinder then displays a graph of the response results. 


The many benefits to using OptionFinder to collect group input include:

  • Anonymity
  • Complete participation
  • Speed
  • Democracy of input
  • Public display of everyone’s opinion

wireless keypadThis technology allows us to combine meeting results from different groups in order to gain a complete picture of a variety of opinions (even if everyone can’t attend the same meeting). The OptionFinder allows a diverse group of people to know and understand others’ opinions and to have a skilled facilitator guide a group to consensus.

Strategy Solutions also provides facilitation training for those organizations who are interested in building their internal capacity to facilitate effective meetings.

Contact us at 866-480-8003 or info@getstrategy.com for more information.  

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