Terrence Metz is an expert group facilitator, instructor, author of “Meetings That Get Results,” and Managing Director of MG RUSH Facilitation Training and Meeting Design. He is passionate about training students, like you, to lead better meetings that produce clear and actionable results, every time!
Terrence Metz MBA, CSM, CSPF, PSP01, HTTO1
“Terrence was an incredible instructor, while the content is invaluable, he is what made this experience exceptional. I’ve been through countless training and cannot remember a single one that I found so interesting, exciting, and informative.” – B. D., IT Business Analyst
As a Certified Structured Professional Facilitator (CSPF), lead instructor, and managing director of MG RUSH Facilitation Training and Coaching, Terrence Metz is passionate about training students to lead meetings that produce clear and actionable results every time!
In addition to earning his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, his professional certifications include a Six Sigma Green Belt from Motorola University, Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from the Scrum Alliance, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and How To Teach Online (HTTO) Certification from the Open Leadership Network, among other certifications.
Terrence’s professional experience has focused on mergers, organizational design, problem solving, process improvement, product development, and strategic planning. He also has P&L experience in highly engineered products and services (Honeywell, for example).
He has taught classes on facilitation and leadership with the Broad Institute (a research venture of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University), Purdue University, the University of Arkansas (Sam Walton School of Business), and instructors from the Stanford University Advanced Project Management Program (who wedged in his five-day professional class between Christmas and New Year’s), along with numerous private organizations and departments of local and federal governments.
“This was the best training course I have ever attended, and I know that it is in great part to Terrence’s materials, structure, exercises, etc. Thank you for bringing out the person I have not been in some time. It was great fun!” – K.C., Lean Sigma Coordinator
His decision-making tools for galvanizing consensus, including Perceptual Mapping and Quantitative TO-WS Analysis, are used worldwide. In 2004, he introduced the concept of holism to the field of structured facilitation as a method for keeping discussions on target, aligning deliverables within and throughout an organization, and creating traction for facilitators to lead meetings that get results.
Having taught over 300 classes and more than 3,000 students, Terrence is a talented instructor, focused listener, and equally adept at both teaching the MG Rush Facilitation Training curriculum and at facilitating consensual agreement around important and challenging issues for groups, organizations, and teams.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
As a keynote and featured speaker for IBAA, PMI, Scrum Alliance and others, Terrence weaves business examples and rationale on HOW to think, not WHAT to think. Servant leadership is explained during interactive demonstrations on planning, prioritizing, and problem solving.. Alignment with an organization’s holarchy of purpose, scope, and objectives are illustrated. They form the groundwork for effective facilitation in modern cultural environments subjected to constant change.
Leveraging material from his newest book with Berrett-Koehler, “Meetings That Get Results,” topics may focus on structured methods; including discrete approaches for simple, complicated, and complex group decision-making. Terrence provides a four-step approach that galvanizes consensus through confirming the purpose, securing objective facts, aligning with product or project objectives, and harmonizing with organizational goals.
Messages are directed at anyone accountable or responsible for project deliverables. Other topics frequently covered include dysfunctional participants, group dynamics, facilitation tools, tips, and other proven team activities that lead to clear and actionable results.
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MODERATOR
As a professional facilitator and moderator, Terrence will prepare your panelists properly and challenge their insights. His questioning style helps shape new ideas by combining input from all of your panelists while delighting and engaging your entire audience. He has made even mundane subjects such as energy management vibrant and current when moderating associations such as ACCA, ACHI, HARDI, and others.
Terrence’s situations have embraced strategic collaboration, business alignment, problem-solving, continuous improvement, organizational design, process design, innovation workshops, and market-based product development and launch.
While his typical audience includes program and project managers, senior officers, and the business analyst community among numerous private and public companies and global corporations, anyone who leads others will benefit.
For more information, call us at 630-954-5880 or Contact us HERE.
Stop wasting time and money!
With Meetings That Get Results, you’ll learn how to lead meetings that produce clear and actionable results every time. More important, how to avoid the worst possible outcome from any meeting—another meeting!
Developed from over 17+ years of research, delivery, and practice, including 15,000+ hours providing live instruction using Certified curriculum, Meetings That Get Results provides you with the tools and methods necessary to lead meetings that generate clear and actionable results, with deliverables that participants both understand and own.
“An essential handbook for any leader or facilitator of meetings. Especially as we have transitioned to more remote-based collaboration, I value all the tips to lead global team meetings.”
— Sana A. Manjeshwar, Global Principal Ombuds Manager, Chevron