Carol combines her background in business and psychology to coach executives at all levels. She has assisted hundreds of individuals in enhancing their skills, overcoming performance blocks, and maximizing their performance. Areas of coaching expertise include:
Sommer Solutions provides Team Development services to help organizations create and sustain high performing work teams. We work at varying levels of development.
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Meeting facilitation is both and art and a science.
When your important meetings need expert facilitation by a neutral party, Carol Sommer
will work with your group from beginning to end – from planning and drafting an
agenda through the meeting follow-up. Carol coordinates three critical and
interdependent areas to make your meetings more efficient, effective and interesting.
Define a clear purpose which includes meeting issue, deliverables, and a compelling rationale to secure buy-in and appropriate participation.
Determine whose input is needed to best serve the meeting’s purpose, and how to manage attendees' comfort zones to get maximum appropriate participation. Also, understand and define the roles of facilitator, recorder, leader and facilitative participant.
Balancing task and relationship, define the the most effective process
techniques and tools to achieve the meeting’s purpose and deliver it’s outcomes.
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Carol Sommer has provided management development training to corporations throughout the United States and Canada since 1980. Learning is accomplished through presentation, discussion, demonstration, and small and large group activities and simulations. Carol is well known for getting her audiences actively involved in their own learning process. She will tailor any training program to meet your specific interests and needs. Workbook materials are provided.
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