Purpose
The purpose of our meeting planner and facilitator offerings is to unburden managers with the challenges of designing and facilitating meetings, to allow them to participate and focus the meeting on achieving the meeting’s goals and objectives.

Overview
As a meeting planner, Skip leaves no stone unturned in order to strategically plan and execute your successful meeting. In order to ensure your meeting achieves its goals, Skip will work with you and your staff:
• To design and develop the best time, place, and food requirements.
• To design and develop the vision and mission for the meeting.
• To design and articulate the necessary interpersonal and electronic communications.
• To perform a thourough needs assessment and pre-meeting phone calls with meeting participants to set the appropriate tone of productivity and confidence in the meeting and its results.
• To collaborate with you and your staff to design the learning goals as well as the action goals for the meeting.
• To ensure that appropriate human as well as other resources are identified for execution of the meeting results.
• To design, develop, and implement a simple evaluation or survey of your meeting’s participants to assess the performance of the meeting facilitator as well as the levels of success that the meeting achieved.

As a meeting facilitator, Skip works collaboratively with you and your staff to:
• Conduct a needs assessment to determine the mission, vision, communications, attitudes, learning goals, action goals, necessary resources, meeting evaluation requirements for the meeting.
• Communicate in the language of your organization and the participants in attendance.
• Maintain positive and productive atmosphere as well as constructive attitudes that create a team approach to your successful meeting.
• Accept responsibility for considering both the needs of meeting participants as well as achieving the goals of the meeting.
• Work within the limits of your resources.
• Perform final evaluation through a survey of meeting participants to assess whether the goals of the meeting are achieved.

Benefits
• A needs assessment ensures that all voices necessary for the appropriate content and focus of the meeting are heard.
• The manager has full participation opportunities, rather than having to conduct the meeting.
• Team members and manager can pay closer attention to the content and objectives of the meeting.
• Facilitator’s expertise in communications ensures meeting learning goals are achieved.
• Laser-like focus on meeting agenda and objectives to ensure a successful meeting.