MGRUSH Certified, Professional, Endorsed Facilitators are truly special.
Thousands of alumni have earned promotions to executive positions, directorships, and C-level responsibility. MGRUSH facilitators lead groups ranging from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to greenfield initiatives about the genetic bar-coding of zebra meat to prevent illegal poaching. Furthermore, many alumni branch out on their own as independents, frequently providing pro-bono support for charitable organizations. While others contribute as valuable keystones, embedded in organizations for survival and growth. Here we provide you with some endorsed facilitators, that are as good or even better than you have ever experienced before.
Endorsed Facilitators
Since we are frequently asked for facilitator referrals, we thought it would be prudent to share some of the “best of the best”. As authors and instructors, our endorsed facilitators maintain high standards, while consistently generating results that clients need. Today, about five percent of our incoming students have their Ph.D. or Doctorate and more than half have advanced/master’s degrees. Most importantly, our alumni understand that galvanizing consensus and effective meeting management depend on integrating three components:
Integrating Leadership, Facilitation, AND Meeting Design
Meetings capture a huge investment of time. Unproductive meetings affect your profit and loss statement, morale, and potential growth of your biggest asset, your people. Many of us attend frequent and important meetings. However, little (if any) structured training has been provided to help us become better meeting participants, and more important, meeting leaders. More effective meetings for teams and groups are dependent on improving three areas of behavior, namely:
WHY —
Leadership training ensures that we begin with the end in mind. WHY we’re meeting equates with what DONE looks like. The best facilitators in the world will fail miserably if they don’t know where they are going. Yet the worst facilitators can still succeed when the deliverable is clear. Effective leadership draws a line of site about the impact of the meeting on the quality of life of its participants.
WHAT —
Once it has been made clear where we are going, facilitation skills make it easier to know WHAT to do to make a meeting successful. Unfortunately, we have developed poor muscle memory over the years. Some behaviors need to be ‘unlearned’ before new behaviors are embraced. The only way to change such behaviors is through practice and immersion. Talking heads (i.e., the instructor’s lips are moving) won’t do it. Only active participation and practice will work at instilling effective and facilitative behaviors.
HOW —
Even a great facilitator who knows where they are going (i.e., What DONE looks like) still needs help. They need to know HOW they are going to build consensus and get a group of people from the meeting Introduction to the Wrap. While the best meeting design or approach (i.e., Agenda) has more than one right answer, there is one wrong answer — if the meeting leader does not know HOW they are going to do it.
Our endorsed facilitators have proven themselves. Get to know them if you need a more effective enterprise, business unit, program office, or project direction. They will lead your group to new horizons. FIND OUT MORE
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Don’t ruin your career by hosting bad meetings. Sign up for a workshop or send this to someone who should. MGRUSH workshops focus on meeting design and practice. Each person practices tools, methods, and activities daily during the week. Therefore, while some call this immersion, we call it the road to building high-value facilitation skills.
Our workshops also provide a superb way to earn up to 40 SEUs from the Scrum Alliance, 40 CDUs from IIBA, 40 Continuous Learning Points (CLPs) based on Federal Acquisition Certification Continuous Professional Learning Requirements using Training and Education activities, 40 Professional Development Units (PDUs) from SAVE International, as well as 4.0 CEUs for other professions. (See workshop and Reference Manual descriptions for details.)
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Terrence Metz, MBA, CSM, CSPF, PSP01, HTTO1, is the Managing Director of MG RUSH Facilitation Leadership, Training, and Meeting Design, an acknowledged leader in structured facilitation training, and author of “Meetings That Get Results – A Facilitator’s Guide to Building Better Meetings.” His FAST Facilitation Best Practices blog features nearly 300 articles on facilitation skills and tools aimed at helping others lead meetings that produce clear and actionable results. His clients include Agilists, Scrum teams, program and project managers, senior officers, and the business analyst community among numerous private and public companies and global corporations. As an undergraduate of Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) and an MBA graduate from NWU’s Kellogg School of Management, his professional experience has focused on process improvement and product development. He continually aspires to make it easier for others to succeed.
