Training

Prism provides training in accelerated team planning and decision-making, including:

• Efficient and effective team decision-making
• Strategic planning
• Creative problem solving
• Conflict resolution and consensus building
• Meeting facilitation

Typical training modules include:

Facilitation 101

Participants in this very interactive session will understand the role and key skills of a facilitator including:

• Pre-meeting planning to assess the client’s needs, establishing a set of meeting objectives and agendas, assigning roles, communicating to the team and other stakeholders
• General facilitation skills: the concept of deferred judgment, divergence before convergence and basic methods for each, and basic conflict management techniques
• Post meeting responsibilities: Evaluation, documentation, and ways to maintain momentum to implementation

Group Decision-making

Participants in this very interactive session will learn and practice accelerated collaborative idea generation and decision-making tools and techniques, including

• Collaborative Affinity Mapping
• Deep prioritizing with the pair-wise comparison analysis
• Profiling for strategic leverage
• Implementation Planning

Implementation Planning

Participants in this very interactive session will learn and practice accelerated collaborative idea generation and decision-making tools and techniques that are especially useful when

• Facilitating implementation and action planning
• Developing communication plans

Consensus Techniques

You’re in a dynamic, collegial planning session. Suddenly the great excitement and creative energy deflate as the group moves to select a set of options. Participants retreat to their parochial interests. Negotiation supplants invention. Turf rules. What to do? This interactive session will demonstrate a simple but powerful step-by-step consensus process based on the principles of interest bargaining taught by the Harvard Program on Negotiation.