Resource Advantage, Inc.

Facilitating The Project Lifecycle	The Project Meeting Facilitator
Step by step, Facilitating the Project Lifecycle guides the project manager/facilitator in making smart choices about when and how to pull key talent together to spell success for the project and ultimately the organization. www.facilitatingprojects.com	Have you ever been involved in a project that didn't require a meeting?  Neither have we.  Well-run project meetings allow teams to get through the maze of distractions and obstacles to achieve results. Coming out on Sep. 28, 2007

What We Do
We are a facilitation, consulting, and training firm specializing in business process improvement and innovation, organization productivity improvement, and information technology planning and design with extensive expertise in the financial services, manufacturing, and direct response industries.

Who We Are
Resource Advantage, Inc. consists only of senior practitioners who utilize their experience as senior level managers in business and information technology arenas within a variety of industries. Each associate has experienced and managed major projects and process improvement efforts, facilitated deliverables-based work sessions throughout the project lifecycle, and therefore contributes valuable approaches and techniques from practical business experience. Resource Advantage, Inc. has unique qualifications that can help you achieve business performance excellence.

Our Approach
Consistent with your project methodology and quality programs (such as Six Sigma), we provide expertise to accelerate your projects and improve the quality of results. Our expert facilitators work with your project team and quality professionals to build-out critical deliverables throughout your project lifecycle through the use of targeted facilitated work sessions. Deliverables are developed to fit your documentation and modeling standards, or we can offer recommendations based upon our experience with proven methods.

We are committed to
• Providing services of the highest quality and exceptional value to our clients.
• Establishing a collaborative work atmosphere which centers on the interdependence of high initiative experts, team contribution, and high quality results from development of the individual.
• Actively seeking to apply the best contemporary and proven approaches and techniques to maximize Quality and Productivity: identifying customer-focused strategies, applying facilitated group techniques to enable consensus in decisioning, improving processes, developing organizations, and applying appropriate information technology.
• Remaining open to new ideas and their creative application which will provide value to our clients.

As you’re preparing to facilitate your next meeting or work session, ask yourself these questions to make sure you’re the right person to be the facilitator.  If you answer “no” to any of these questions, consider engaging someone else to facilitate this session:

• Will the group be able to view me as unbiased and objective?

• Can I use my knowledge and expertise to ask questions that guide the group rather than giving answers or dictating solutions?

• Do I feel comfortable handling the dynamics and politics of the meeting?

• Do I have the skills to facilitate any specialized analysis or facilitation techniques that might be required in the meeting?

From: The Project Meeting Facilitator
Scheduled for publication September 2007, Jossey Bass