Client Facilitation
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Quoted from Steve Shu's blog, a master of client facilitation is a person that can:
- Master analysis skills of the trade: use top-down logical reasoning, use many analytical frameworks, work analyses from multiple directions
- Communicate well: whether it be via face-to-face conversation, writing, phone, or instant messaging (yikes)
- Teach and frame things properly: because interactions with parties may be varied, quick and because parties may have varying levels of knowledge, one must be able to ramp-up conversation levels quickly and put them in the proper context
- Recognize where the organization is at and how decisions are made: is the marketing department behind in their understanding? who does the CEO look to as his/her right hand? if so, what are the steps to getting the right hand on-board or up-to-speed? how do we get things to tip? can we get there in one step or will it take two steps?
- Lead people *without formal authority*: can you educate people, empathize with the organization, get the organization to trust you, and pave a vision and/or outline a set of tradeoffs with such clarity that motion must happen?
posted by Bryan @ 8:39 PM,
