in-person & virtual facilitation
Meeting design & facilitation
Would you like to have more meetings that work and generate results that everyone owns?
Our participation design and facilitation ensure safe and creative spaces where everyone’s wisdom is heard. Through the art and design of facilitation, teams and stakeholders understand why they’re in the room and what’s being asked of them. Our processes help people focus on what matters and engage fully in developing outcomes, generating high levels of commitment for implementing and sustaining plans. We will help you design and facilitate your planning meetings to ensure authentic participation by everyone, which leads to long-term commitment, effective teamwork and quality outcomes.
Participatory strategic planning
Do you want to leverage the hearts, minds and voices of your people in order to transform your organization and achieve lasting change?
We work with you to design what your organization needs to be the change it wants to see tomorrow. Our strategic planning process leverages the hearts, minds and voices of everyone in the room (and sometimes those who are not). Through genuine participation, our process enables groups with diverse views to rally around and commit to a shared vision, as well as implementation. Using a variety of ToP Facilitation Methods, we prep, design and facilitate a powerful and proven strategic planning process that builds buy-in, promotes accountability and operationalizes plans. The result is a plan with strong consensus that is realistic, doable and measurable, as well as more effective teamwork.
Participatory action planning
Are you struggling to engage a team or group in planning a project or event together?
Our action planning process is highly participatory and enables the successful planning and implementation of a group project or event to catalyze commitment and ownership at all stages. As your ‘guide on the side,’ we work with you and your team to define high level goals, focus on the right issues, clarify what’s needed for projects or events to be successful, and celebrate wins. Action planning is suitable for short to medium-term projects or for completing projects that have stalled, or as part of a strategic planning session.
Accelerated action planning
Our accelerated action planning process is designed to enable small teams to rapidly scope a project, then define the necessary strategies, actions, resources, and a realistic timeline for making it happen. Depending on the project scope, an accelerated action planning process typically takes 1.5 to 2 hours, and is suitable for teams of six to eight people.