Pokorny Consulting

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Facilitator

What does a facilitator do?

It means to engage people in a process to accomplish a purpose. This applies to many situations in our work and community lives. To facilitate effectively doesn't mean I have to be the subject matter expert.  What I am an expert in is how to develop a process to accomplish a purpose, engage people in the process and keep them on task, and be astutely aware in refining the group process so things go smoothly.

For over 25 years, I have served in the role as facilitator for a wide range of situations. Here are a just a few situations where I served in the role as facilitator:

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  • Meeting leader for a 12 member citizen advisory committee charged with making recommendations to a county Board of Supervisors as to the future of their county's care facility.
  • Facililator for a state-wide steering committee to develop an Early Childhood Professional Development system. 
  • Co-planned diversity training for 350 employees for a bank and trained 10 employee facilitators to facilitate small dialogue groups in response to watching the movie "Crash."
  • Conducted management retreats at senior care retirement communities to improve teamwork, set strategic goals, or to identify strategies in response to resident satisfaction survey results.
  • Moderator for citizen discussion groups at school public forums on education issues.
  • Moderator for small group planning or discussions at conferences.
  • Conducted meetings with supervisors to identify causes of behavior problems with workers and identify action steps to change their behaviors.

When you are in need of a facilitator, please contact me. Let me take the burden off of you in planning your process to accomplish a task. You won't regret it!