PCSMeets! is creating an essential new niche in specializing in facilitating high-level strategic meetings (in partnership with Psych/Consult Systems, an international leader in management & organizational development), as part of significant organization re-envisioning and re-structuring, as well as improving conferences and shareholder meetings, roll-outs, training, team buildings, regular organizational meetings, and brainstorming sessions.

• facilitating human processes to ensure effective meetings, including
       -communications
       -brainstorming
       -conflict resolution
       -team building
• designing strategic meetings to maximize effectiveness, gain committed 'buy-in', and ensure aligned follow-through
• sparking creative brainstorming and problem-solving for powerful organizational shifts and re-alignments, as well as daily operational growth
• managing conflict and crisis to create new synergies and opportunities in the face of global challenges
• smoothing & using cultural and style differences to aid domestic and international alliances

Dr. Barbara Strand, internationally celebrated speaker and trainer and President of Psych/Consult Systems, is available for speaking engagements, workshops, and trainings from short "lunch and meets" to full day events on a variety of management, organizational and personal development topics. Learn more here.
 
Customized Site Selection: to ensure the proper synergy of venue, meeting goals, and corporate culture, PCS Meets! also provides venue recommendations and liaison for all your off-site meetings. We have developed relationships with venues serving all demographics and needs worldwide, and will match the perfect venue with your meeting's mission and vision with an eye to value.

 

Meetings & conferences are essential organizational tools for:

• Collaborative Strategic Planning & Nimble Re-structuring
• Organizational Development, Team-building, & Skill Development
• Change & Crisis Management & Critical Information Sharing

From quick impromptu brainstorming to regular team gatherings, from high-level strategic envisioning to planned large events to implement that vision, meetings are an integral part of organizational life. But they're costly in terms of money, time and energy, and improperly run, can be ineffective and even damaging.
 
PCSMeets!, the Meeting Facilitation Division of Psych/Consult Systems, can work with you to help assure that all your meetings are effective, creative, and powerful agents of change. Click to the section that interests you most, or explore it all!
 
Our ground-breaking specialty! We will work with your top-echelon executives to design, facilitate and support high-level strategic envisioning and restructuring as well as crisis management, or bring together top-echelon executives from compatible organizations for the formation of strategic global partnerships, temporary or permanent, melding cultures and styles synergistically for mutually beneficial opportunities.
 
We will work collaboratively to design off-site, intense, confidential retreats and on-site shorter meetings to brainstorm, create, and implement significant strategic organizational change, take advantage of opportunities for growth, and minimize the downside of challenges. These can be stand-alone or as part of an ongoing strategic consulting intervention with our parent, Psych/Consult Systems, an international leader in management and organizational development. (For more information on our extensive strategic consulting initiatives, see the Strategic Planning Services section.)
 
By assuring that goals are sensitively and thoroughly examined and set, that communication skills and styles allow for easy, safe, and creative flow of information and ideas, that cultural and style differences become assets instead of liabilities, that conflict is turned from adversarial to collaborative, that egos are reassured and barriers are identified and removed, and that communications and next-step action items are kept clear resulting in full commitment, we will help you throughout the planning, the meetings themselves, and the follow-through to achieve positive, effective organizational growth. For divisional, organization-wide or public events, such as conferences, strategic change roll-outs (with their attendant controversy), product launches, sales gatherings, training and orientations, public shareholder meetings & news conferences, etc., we will work with you before, during, & after the event, to create maximally effective SuperMeetings^TM, reduce resistance, and ensure committed buy-in and whole-hearted and aligned implementation. Be sure to explore further how we can help improve these critical events' effectiveness and strategic value, short- and long-term!
 
Additionally, as a 'value-added' and to ensure the proper synergy of venue, meeting goals, and corporate culture, PCS Meets! also provides venue recommendations and liaison for all your off-site meetings. We have developed relationships with venues serving all demographics and needs worldwide, and will match the perfect venue with your meeting's mission and vision with an eye to value.
 
Read our white paper on Facilitating Shareholder Meetings for some valuable tips!
 
Dr. Barbara Strand, internationally celebrated speaker and trainer and President of Psych/Consult Systems, is available for speaking engagements, workshops, and trainings from short "lunch and meets" to full day events on a variety of management, organizational and personal development topics. Learn more here. Regularly scheduled or occasional intervention meetings, such as team-buildings, routine staff meetings, manager strategizing sessions, case/challenge conferences, are the backbone, and bane, of many corporate days. We will analyze your staff meetings for necessity, effectiveness, and common issues. We can help your staff develop agenda-setting, moderation, problem-solving, listening and speaking, and conflict resolution skills to improve regular meetings and increase their usefulness, while decreasing boredom and burnout.
 
We'll also work with your staff to assure that communication, problem-solving, and cultural sensitivity skills are honed to make impromptu meetings beneficial, and assist them in utilizing these "seat-of-the-pants" sessions to substitute for unwieldy larger gatherings.
 

PCSMeets! recognizes that special meetings, such as high-level strategic planning sessions, all-hands gatherings, conferences and conventions, multi-organizational projects, trainings and seminars, and public events such as shareholder meetings, product launches, and news conferences, require thoughtful planning and careful execution if they are to be maximally effective.
 
We will work with you at each stage (click links for more info on each):

• to clarify purpose & product, design a dynamic meeting, create committed anticipation, & select the perfect venue before the meeting/event,
• to facilitate communication & team processes for maximal effectiveness, & provide formal training & subject-expert consultation during the meeting/event,
• to maximize 'back-home' integration, increase buy-in, & help further strategic organizational development after the meeting/event.

we can help you to:

• Clarify the true presenting issues and define the specific desired end result of your meeting/event
• Identify influential culture & style factors & available resources
• Design event activities and methods congruent with your strategic purpose and organizational culture & brand
• Force-field analyze organizational & personal barriers & motivators, and confidentiality and security concerns
• Set a well-paced agenda
• Publicize purpose/product & address concerns to Maximize participants' buy-in, involvement & commitment
• Integrate technology productively, such as social media, meeting apps, presentation needs, etc.
• Help you choose & negotiate with the perfect venue for your off-site events:
  As a 'value-added' and to ensure the proper synergy of venue, meeting goals, and corporate culture, PCS Meets! also provides venue recommendations and liaison for all your off-site meetings. We have developed relationships with venues serving all demographics and needs worldwide, and will match the perfect venue with your meeting's mission and vision with an eye to value.
   
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• Monitor & actively facilitate ongoing 'human processes' such as communications, interpersonal dynamics, problem-solving, decision-making and goal setting, cooperation & synergy, and dealing with resistances and barriers
• Advise leaders, presenters, moderators on ongoing issues as they arise
• Participate as Expert Consultants in strategic sessions as appropriate, serve as dynamic & motivational speakers, and provide tailored, experiential multi-media presentations, trainings & workshops:
  Dr. Barbara Strand, internationally celebrated speaker and trainer and President of Psych/Consult Systems, is available for speaking engagements, workshops, and trainings from short "lunch and meets" to full day events, on a variety of human resource & business topics. Learn more here.
• Moderate the flow of news out to promote positive media relations considering confidentiality concerns
• Liaise with venue staff to smooth processes and insure confidentiality and security
   
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we can help you to:

• Elicit and interpret formal and informal feedback evaluation of meeting/event
• Evaluate the response to and results of the meeting/event in terms of goals accomplished
• Design and maximize integration of resulting strategic change and organizational development
• Utilize results to plan dynamically for the future
• Design and implement future interventions according to updated objectives
• Extend our involvement across a wide variety of consulting initiatives for management and organization development through our parent, Psych/Consult Systems
   
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