It's Time to Engage a Facilitator When:
- Your industry is experiencing significant disruption and you have not discussed or formulated a plan.
- Your company is having challenges attracting or retaining talent.
- You’ve recently had major leadership changes or have major leadership changes coming in the next decade.
- You have not done a well-designed and professionally facilitated Strategic Planning process in the past three years (or ever).
- You have new opportunities, markets, audiences.
- You have new board members, employees, members, constituents with whom you need to build rapport and consensus.
- There is more competition than in the past.
- Doing things as you’ve always done is no longer sufficient.
- You aren’t getting the funding or new business needed.
- Your audience, mission or offerings have changed (or you’ve been experiencing unintentional “mission creep”).
- You are contemplating a Capital Campaign.
- You have a constituency/client/target audience with whom you need to build rapport.
- You have a complex topic, initiative or constituency and need to build consensus and buy-in.
- You have a new initiative you want to get off the ground.
Why Use an Outside Facilitator?
A workshop, meeting or series of meetings facilitated by a third party, trained professional is vital to moving a topic or initiative forward, getting buy-in, building consensus or developing an outcome-driven plan.