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Facilitation
Getting a group to work efficiently and effectively can be daunting.
Lack of process experience, different personalities and styles,
and unintended miscommunications are just a few of the barriers
to success. That's where ERG's talented facilitation staff can help.
ERG's facilitators are process leaders, problem solvers, and team
builders with the experience and skills to help groups of all sizes
optimize their performance and achieve their objectives. Every group
is unique in its needs and challenges. Our facilitators will work
closely with you to assess your needs and develop a customized facilitation
strategy to accomplish your goals. Our facilitators are supported
by more than 80 in-house communications professionals, including
meeting planners who provide logistical support and writers who
prepare meeting materials and summaries; and IT specialists who
offer state-of-the-art e-solutions to promote effective group function.
Session Experience
ERG facilitators are experienced with all types of meeting formats—from
large groups of more than 100 attendees to smaller meetings, such
as management teams and focus groups. Our experience includes:
- Strategic and program planning
- Consensus building
- Collaborative problem solving
- Process and content mapping
- Program evaluation
- Public and community meetings
- Scientific peer review meetings
- Training support
- Focus groups
Why Choose ERG?
- We collaborate closely with our clients...
We develop a customized approach that meets your objectives, budget,
and time frame. We choose our techniques based on careful consideration
of your group's goals, history, dynamics, and preferred working
style.
- We offer a full-service approach...
We draw on a multitude of inhouse resources to offer clients a
full-service approach to facilitation:
–Our meeting planners can assist you in scheduling, venue
selection, room layout, registration, and onsite support.
–Our communications team can develop invitations, meeting
handouts, signage, and summary reports. We can also handle all
your promotion, publicity, and outreach needs.
–Our information technology specialists can offer a host
of technology and e-solutions to optimize participation and ensure
results.
- We offer options...
When participants are dispersed geographically or face-to-face
meetings are prohibitive due to time or cost, we can draw upon
our extensive experience in arranging video conferences, discussion
databases, satellite forums, and other types of virtual meetings
to develop a technology-assisted solution to meet your goals.
- We offer state-of-the-art services...
We stay abreast of evolutions in facilitation craft, continually
honing our skills and expanding the tools we use to create the
ideal environment for planning, decision-making, and consensus
building.
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