Facilitated Project Work Sessions

Tammy Adams

Consultant: Tammy Adams

Offering Duration:  1-3 days

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Offering Description:
Deliverable-based work sessions that enable cross-functional project teams to quickly and effectively produce the outputs required in each phase of the project lifecycle. These working sessions of between 6-25 participants are intended to achieve a specific project objective.

Standard work session types include (but are not limited to): Project Charter (2 days), Business Requirements (3 days), Work-in-Progress Assessment (1 day), Risk Assessment (2 days)

Offering Outline:
(Specific outline will vary based on type of work session.)

• To plan for and execute a facilitated work session or series of work sessions to create a project deliverable or support the project effort as agreed to by the client.
  • Facilitation of work sessions includes:
    • Pre-session preparation
    • In-session facilitation
    • Post-session documentation of session deliverables
  • Deliverables include:
    • The agreed upon project deliverable(s)
    • An Action Item tracking list for work still remaining
    • An executive summary, if desire

Offering Objectives:

• Fast Results – Facilitated work sessions enable teams to develop quality project deliverables in a limited amount of time
• Cross-Organizational Buy-in and Support – Allowing time for healthy discussion and debate of ideas or exploration of controversial issues among diverse stakeholders ensures that everyone is heard and that resulting recommendations or decisions can be supported by the team.
• Easier Implementation –This process ensures that hidden knowledge and agendas are brought to the table early in the process to minimize rework.
• Shared Understanding – A documented record of the decisions, agreements, and action plans creates a shared vision and provides a foundation for future work.

Instructor Biography:
Ms. Adams specializes in Project Facilitation and Business Process Analysis. Using collaborative techniques she elicits, captures and translates team knowledge about processes, products and services into project and design deliverables. Ms. Adams background includes extensive experience in project management, operations management, consulting, training, and facilitation. Ms. Adams is a Certified Professional Facilitator with the International Association of Facilitators and a Certified Quality Manager with American Society for Quality. She is co-author of the book Facilitating the Project Lifecycle and a regular speaker at International Facilitator, Quality, Business Process and Project Management Conferences.

Target Audience:
This type of service would result from the launch of a process improvement effort or other large, cross-functional project effort.

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