From the course: Meeting Facilitation
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Benefits of facilitation
- A facilitator is someone who makes the process of your meetings easier and more effective. Whether you bring someone in from the outside or have someone from the inside, great facilitators are neutral and manage the process of engaging the team towards a shared outcome. If you're a facilitator or just wanting to implement better meeting strategies, it's helpful to be armed with why and how meeting facilitators help. From my perspective, there are five benefits of a facilitator. The first is that there's better ROI of your meetings. Research shows that in the U.S. alone, $37 billion a year is wasted on ineffective meetings. A facilitator addresses the two core drivers of this wasted time and money, consistent structure and interpersonal dynamics of meetings. This brings me to a second benefit. An effective facilitator is great at driving norms for the team, leveraging the two drivers. To drive structure for meetings that are customized to your team, facilitators ensure you have…
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