Meetings & Retreats

AlexanderHancock Associates can facilitate your meetings and retreats. Please call us at 1.888.892.5096 with your inquiry and we will be happy to help you.

What do AlexanderHancock Expert Facilitators™ do?

• Meet with you to understand the objectives, success criteria, the context, the group members, relevant history, the issues facing the group, and anticipated obstacles to success

• Work with you to plan the process, agenda(s), and the communication to stakeholders

• Provide to those steering the process guidance and expert counsel based on years of experience

• Apply their expertise in group dynamics to ensure open and productive dialogue

• Keep groups focused and moving

• Help groups adhere to their own ground rules

• Ensure that issues are brought to closure

• Provide a written summary of group decisions and actions

• Make themselves available by phone or email to respond to on-going questions or concerns

Where is Expert Facilitation™ needed?

• Planning retreats for management teams and elected officials

• Strategic planning processes at all levels

• Key task forces working on important, often enterprise-wide, projects

• Any situation where stakeholders have conflicting views, goals, or agendas

• Any situation where the usual meeting leader needs to be free to participate

What are the payoffs for investing in an outside Facilitator?

• Group members commit to decisions because they can see their fingerprints on it.

• A high degree of consensus develops through open and productive dialogue.

• Group members have greater respect for and openness with each other.

• All relevant points of view get aired.

• Long-standing troublesome issues get brought to closure.

• Creative solutions are developed for complex problems.

• Group members learn to practice effective group process behaviors.

• More is accomplished in less time.

• Groups gain the benefit of expert guidance and counsel on the organizational issues they face.