The information that is produced in a meeting is a critical asset that seldom deserves proper management attention. Meetings are crucial places to share and generate information, so note taking and note sharing are paramount to a successful meeting. What are your company practices in this regard? What sort of technology does your company use to run meetings?

The combined use of SMART Board interactive whiteboards and meeting facilitation techniques can become a decisive requirement for a successful meeting. More complex tools are available as your meeting requirements get tougher, from group decision making to distance collaboration.

GroupVision e-meeting facilitation services are available to assist you. Our consultancy services can be used to generate value in the following type of group activities:

Vision, Goals and Mission Development
We support the development of vision and mission statements by any size group, using a process supported by vision imaging and the identifying of future strategies and direction. Teams develop and prioritise long-term strategies and operational values, goals and short-term strategies, followed by an assessment of their core competencies and their ability to fulfil the mission.

Self Assessments - EFQM and Malcolm Baldrige models
The European business excellence model is used as a framework for the European quality award. Facilitated EMS can significantly improve the entire EFQM self-assessment process, producing insights and consensus driven action plans with the voting results immediately tabulated and printed.

Corporate Image Development
Industry-wide analysis and corporate identity including the analysis of strengths and weaknesses, core competencies and the value proposition of products and services. We clarify a vision-guided roadmap from your origins to the present state to the desired state and the ultimate potential of your organisation.

Customer and Supplier Relationship Building
Facilitated EMS enables and encourages both the supplier and the customer to achieve new levels of cooperation, in order to improve the competitiveness of your organisation.

Business Excellence & Quality Improvement
With a full range of business excellence and quality management/business process improvement templates using our EMS tools, we design custom group-supported process for specific programs to help quality managers implement such programs.

Benchmarking and Best Practice
We guide the identifying and developing of an updated list of best practices for any level of the organisation. The process guides the team through steps to review key performance indicators and to classify the best practices according to overall relevance and importance in categories.

Business Process Re-Engineering
Re-engineering or any "change" initiative must involve all the staff members in the process from the beginning to install a sense of employee involvement and empowerment. With the ability to have all the key players participate in e-meeting supported sessions, you are able to develop short-term and long-term action plans that are assured of success with the unconditional buy-in of the entire management team.

Systems Thinking for Management Teams
We have an educational cooperative learning template for business teams applying the principles of systems thinking to the "real" conditions existing within their organisation. The methodology uses facilitated e-meetings to help management teams focus on issues or problems requiring their immediate attention.

Knowledge Management Responsibilities
Facilitated e-meetings significantly improves the ability of knowledge workers to communicate and collaborate in sharing knowledge and building on each others ideas, broadening the knowledge management spectrum.

Learning Organisation Improvement
Beginning with an e-meeting survey and an analysis of the apparent deficiencies within their organisation, a group is able to determine the extent of a learning climate and how current management practices influence the ability to create and sustain a learning culture.

Our partner Anthony Adams is available if you want to have more information on how to design a session for these different types of meetings, based on his more than 20 years of practice in all type of industries.

Contact us for more information.