• Enhances brainstorming, creativity and collaboration.

• Allows for executives to participate as peers as opposed to  managers.

• Maximizes involvement and participation from all attendees.

• Maintains the agenda discipline to stay on-task 

• Develops a consensus for what actions need to be taken, who is responsible for achievement with target dates for completion.

• Potential discovery of several new ideas, obstacles, solutions or strategies that would not otherwise surfaced without professional facilitation.

• Enhanced commitment to the action plans developed.

One additional new idea generated at a meeting can pay for a facilitator several times over.