Timely Tip
How Managers & Supervisors Benefit…
… From Skillful Facilitation
Inviting a facilitator to help manage your meeting does not mean you are giving up power or responsibility. The benefits of handing off responsibility to a neutral facilitator for managing a challenging or even a routine meeting include:
- The manager can participate more fully – bringing her knowledge and skills to bear on identifying issues and resolving solving problems, rather than manage the meeting itself.
- She can share her own views without concern for dominating the conversation thereby losing valuable contributions from others.
- A neutral facilitator tasked with tracking key outcomes and decisions brings closure and clarity allowing the manager to identify next steps that need to be revisited and/or key items that might be missing altogether.
- If difficulties arise the whole group can benefit from the observations and suggestions of a skilled professional facilitator.
