My company is a Portland, Oregon based consulting firm specializing in the use of facilitation as a way to improve your performance. My services are based on the simple premise that there are times when there is more at stake than running a good meeting. Facilitation is not a task like “running a meeting” or “coming to a consensus decision.” Facilitation is about removing the obstacles that keep your business or team from improving performance. Organizing and managing effective meetings is important but facilitation is really about, empowerment, learning theory & organizational design.
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So if you are looking for more than a good meeting, welcome to Facilitation & Process. My blog is designed to encourage you to systematically think about and build your facilitation and process skills. Feel free to contribute your thoughts because I believe we learn together as a community of practice.
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Above, in the links on the menu bar, you will find information about what I bring to my consulting practice so that when your need exceeds your capacity, you will have someone to call. Whether you need help with strategic planning, organizing a fund raising plan, designing a process for complex project or committee, or training and coaching for your team on performance improvement, I look forward to working with you. – mark
. Facilitation & Process, LLC provides customized and tailored solutions to your strategic planning, performance, planning, and facilitation needs. Check out our services and follow the Resources of the Day on Twitter. . For the last couple of decades, technology has been advancing at a breakneck speed, with each generation of technology continuing to reinvent, [...]
. This post is one of a continuing series on strategic planning and is based on my work facilitating strategic planning with nonprofit agencies. In strategic planning one of my initial conversations with an agency executive director will invariably include a discussion about the use of the strategic plan following its development. The savvy executive [...]
. The role of assessing the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT ) in nonprofit strategic planning is often misunderstood and misused. At the most extreme a SWOT analysis is confused with the strategic planning process with an organization believing that a SWOT is the sum total of strategic planning. More common is that a [...]
. Over the last few months, I have posted a series of articles on strategic planning for nonprofit and social sector agencies. Not surprising, a number of potential client calls are from folks looking for facilitation and process support for strategic planning. Indeed in this anemic economy, many nonprofit agencies find themselves refocusing on strategy. [...]