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Gary Rush, IAF CPF | Facilitator Services |
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Gary Rush, IAF CPF, is an IAF Certified™ Professional Facilitator (CPF) and has been a Facilitator since 1983. He has facilitated many types of workshops involving a wide variety of issues and number of participants. His primary goal is to get a group of individuals to form as a team, learn to communicate, and achieve a goal or accomplish a task.
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Content Knowledge and the Facilitator
Occasionally, when clients ask me to facilitate workshops, they begin by asking if I have experience in their industry, “Have you worked in the XXX industry in the past?” They are looking for content knowledge, much as they would if they were hiring a consultant. This needs to change. Read more...
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Workshops and projects facilitated by Gary have increased productivity resulting in a 20% to 40% reduction in effort required to gather information. Gary successfully ties his extensive facilitating experience with his knowledge of:
- Strategic Planning
- Project Management
- Business Requirements
- Business Analysis
- Product Ideation
- Data Modeling
- Business Process Re-engineering
- Process Modeling
- Methodologies
and other processes to deliver a complete solution that is developed by engaging the appropriate stakeholders to reach consensus based decisions.
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Our Process
We believe in thorough preparation and do not take on facilitation efforts without it. We interview the client and potential Participants – we believe in the wisdom of the group. Gary uses his vast array of skills and tools to facilitate workshops encouraging participation from all participants, using Active Listening to ensure communication and understanding and guiding participants to consensus. Additionally, we provide high-quality Documenters to capture workshop results. Our Documenters are trained Facilitators and can, not only capture workshop results in a timely and quality manner, but can co-facilitate when needed.
Preparation
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Preparation consists of:
- Interviewing the client to identify needs, issues, topics, potential participants, and deliverables for the workshop.
- Interviewing the participants to finalize the Workshop Charter and workshop agenda.
- Developing the Workshop Charter and Workshop Agenda.
- Working with the client to define workshop logistics, roles, and responsibilities.
We interview to define:
- Workshop Charter: Purpose, Scope, and Outcomes.
- The final list of Participants.
- Potential issues with topic, Participants, or workshop.
Our deliverables from Preparation are:
- The Workshop Charter.
- Workshop Agenda.
- Final list of Workshop Participants.
- An Annotated Agenda for use by the Facilitator and client.
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The Workshop
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The workshop is a highly interactive environment. As Facilitator, Gary will:
- Remain neutral.
- Manage the agenda and keep Participants focused and on track.
- Ensure that Participants are engaged and everyone is heard.
- Guide the group to reach consensus and leave with a win-win result.
- Ensure that results are documented.
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Follow Up
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After the workshop is finished, we will complete the documentation of the workshop results. Our deliverables:
- Documented Results.
- Summary report of Evaluations by workshop Participants.
- Recommendations for next steps.
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Contact us for additional information.
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It's time to get FoCuSeD™!
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