Grasslands Mediation - Facilitation

To maximize the full potential of such a meeting and to make sure all members of the team/congregation can give all their creativity, energy, & focus to the issues on the table, it is important that you have the right person lead the meeting. Often this is a facilitator brought in from the outside.

BENEFITS OF AN OUTSIDE FACILITATOR:

The facilitator will not be influenced by the past relationships, conflicts, and patterns that might decrease the effectiveness of an “insider’s” leadership of the planning session.

Each person in your organization can participate equally and focus on the issues at hand.

You are assured of having someone lead your meeting who has the experience & ability to free the creativity of your people and channel it toward the results you want.

IF YOU CONTRACT WITH
GRASSLANDS MEDIATION,
THE FACILITATOR WILL:

Meet with you to plan the session, design the questions that should be asked, outline the process to be used, and sketch the hoped-for outcomes.

Lead the session(s).

Write a report that includes the conclusions reached in the session(s).

Be available for follow-up, debriefing, & conversations about future sessions that might be needed.

HELPING YOUR COMPANY/ORGANIZATION DESIGN & ACHIEVE ITS FUTURE

Designing your MISSION
Every company, organization, and congregation has a reason why it exists. That is its MISSION. For any organization, whether for-profit or non-profit, it is crucial that the MISSION is well-defined and clearly articulated. The MISSION guides every decision that is made and determines every action that is taken by each department and each person in the organization. To ensure that happens, each person—CEO, managers, employees & volunteers—must know what the mission is and own it as theirs.
Is your MISSION clearly stated? Is it understood, and owned by each person in your organization? You have hired creative, motivated, qualified people, but now are they all pulling together so that your company/organization can achieve its MISSION?

Discovering a VISION
You and everyone working for you may know why your company/organization exists. They may be working together. But, do they have a VISION for what can be a year, 5 years or 10 years from now because of your organization, and is it a SHARED VISION?
Whether you exist to make a profit, serve a community, or nurture faith in people, the status quo is not an option. Given the people you have hired, the members you have invited in, or the volunteers you have recruited, you can be more than you are today. What is that more? Increased sales? A better product? Fewer hungry people? A larger congregation? A more effective organization? What is your VISION?
What might happen if you could harness the creativity, motivation and giftedness of all the people in your organization, have them dream the same dream for your company/congregation/institution, and then join in making that VISION real?

Setting GOALS
You know why you exist and you have a vision for where your company/organization will be in one year or five years. How will you get there?
Fulfilling your MISSION and achieving your VISION will only happen as you plan your immediate and more long-term future by setting achievable and measurable GOALS. These GOALS are the steps that will lead you to the future that you envision. Achieving the GOALS will mean you are fulfilling your MISSION and making real the VISION you have for your company/organization. Achieving your goals will mean you are SUCCESSFUL.
What are your GOALS for the next month, the next year, the next three years? Do each of your departments have GOALS that can be achieved and measured?