How come some meeting facilitators are able to navigate through challenging group dynamics productively and almost effortlessly, while other meeting facilitators fail to maintain control and keep emotions in line? Discover best practices and helpful techniques to create a collaborative meeting environment designed to better ensure respectful interactions, build common ground and guide the group to generate creative and productive solutions.
In this session, you will learn to:
- Understand your role as a facilitator to effectively manage meetings and foster productivity.
- Discover how to enhance understanding and acceptance of differences in others during meetings or discussions.
- Realize some of the more common group dynamics that facilitators face and how to work through them successfully.
- Discover the art of asking good questions to diagnose difficulty and support healthy outcomes.
- Gain insight on your personal triggers and strategies to more ably confront difficult situations that arise.
Biography:
Tracy Butz, Owner of Think Impact Solutions, is an inspirational speaker, captivating author and successful consultant. In addition to being a recognized speaker of the National Speakers Association, she has over 20 years of experience actively engaging both large- and small-size audiences from a wide range of industries including the US Army, Motorola, and Subway, just to name a few. She has also spent part of her career working as Director of Learning & Development, responsible for leading organizational development and talent management initiatives. Tracy truly delivers the tools for today’s world, propelling her audiences to live more productive, passionate and purposeful lives.
“Tracy is an outstanding facilitator who has a passion for helping others become better in their leadership or management roles. Tracy is bright, articulate and will “wow” any audience. Tracy’s energetic and outgoing personality made the session fun and engaging. Her ability to adapt and connect with any size audience, her genuine passion and her great sense of humor are some of the unique skills Tracy brings to any group. Out of the 10 programs NEW ASTD conducted this past year, Tracy received the highest ratings! I have seen Tracy facilitate many sessions in the past with great success, and her recent presentation at the NEW ASTD was no exception! Tracy was brilliant!”
Sheri Peiterson
Northeast Wisconsin ASTD Former Chapter President
American Society for Training and Development
February 17, 2016