The meeting
methodologies used by Genuine Contact professionals have proven
track records for creating effective participative environments.
They are versatile enough to enable the satisfactory achievement
of your goals, however diverse, or specific. They create the conditions
for your organization to benefit from the individual and collective
wisdom of your people and demonstrate that when collective wisdom
is harnessed, ‘the whole is noticeably greater than the
sum of the parts’.
The primary
methodologies we use for meeting facilitation are:
Open
Space Technology (the most open of the participative methodologies)
Whole
Person Process Facilitation (an open but more guided approach),
and
Cross
Cultural Conflict Resolution (when situations of conflict
need to be resolved before the organization can move forward).
Our aim is
to assist our clients achieve their goals by creating meetings
that tap into the individual and collective genius of the participants
and to access both intuitive and intellectual knowledge. Our belief
and experience is that the wisdom to find the solutions that are
needed are always present in the group. We facilitate successful,
highly participative meetings that range in size from a few people
to hundreds of people, and very in length from a few hours to
several days.
If your situation
calls for it, we are able to facilitate simultaneous meetings
in a number of different geographic locations, or deliver a highly
effective solution for bridging geographic distances using Open
Space-Online® software for facilitating Open Space Technology
meetings online.
In many situations,
a blended approach best serves the needs of the client, using
a combination of Whole Person Process facilitated meetings and
Open Space Technology meetings. Both are congruent in approach
so they work well in tandem. Often a Whole Person Process Facilitated
meeting precedes the Open Space Technology meeting to prepare
for the Open Space Technology meeting. As well, often a Whole
Person Process Facilitated meeting follows the Open Space Technology
meeting to assist in implementation. We also use two additional
highly participative meeting methodologies as part of a blended
approach to meet client needs including the use of Appreciative
Inquiry and the World Cafe.
An additional
component of our blended approach when face to face meetings are
not possible, is the use of a highly participative on line meeting
methodology that replicates the Open Space Technology meeting
as closely as possible.
We also offer
trainings for your
in-house representatives in the facilitation of Open Space Technology,
Whole Person Process Facilitation, and Conflict Resolution.
Our
meetings have a proven track record for success in:
* strategic
planning including implementation plans
* visioning,
including identification of key strategic directions
* development
of business ethics including implementation plans
* development
of strategies and implementation plans for successful communication,
excellent staff morale,high level quality of work life, excellent
patient/client/customer service, improved labor/management relations,
successful curriculum design, successful work process redesign
* addressing
issues of gender and diversity
* finding
solutions to violence and conflict in the workplace
