{"id":13,"date":"2010-09-02T16:27:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T16:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lighthousecg.com\/strategicconsultation\/"},"modified":"2020-01-22T21:02:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T02:02:45","slug":"philosophy-and-approach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lighthousecg.com\/strategy\/philosophy-and-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy &#038; Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most organizations require strategic facilitation at\u00a0different points during their life cycle. Yet too often they fail to\u00a0realize the need\u00a0or see\u00a0its value.\u00a0 Why is that a mistake?\u00a0 Because, good strategic facilitation can guide your group or business through a process of asking the hard questions, developing the strategic answers, and setting the path to greater efficiency and productivity. Strategic facilitation can take many forms\u2014from helping you develop an innovative near-term strategic plan or\u00a0simply facilitating a\u00a0topic-specific discussion of importance to your group\/organization. Lighthouse has the skills and experience to guide you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Lighthouse?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We are not cookie-cutter consultants<\/strong>. We customize the process and the meeting or workshop to your specific needs and audiences. We help guide your conversation through a logical progression that\u00a0stimulates new ideas and we make sure to capture the words and thoughts of workshop participants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We believe that each meeting is an opportunity to teach and learn.<\/strong>\u00a0 Our designs use innovative, adult training techniques and participatory learning approaches.\u00a0 More than just workshops,\u00a0these are\u00a0facilitated conversations designed specifically to clarify, focus and build consensus on difficult and confusing issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can participate instead of facilitate.\u00a0<\/strong>Because we run the meeting, keep track of time, maintain a record of key decisions &#8230; you can participate, listen and lead. And, in our role of neutral third party, we handle the difficult situations and participants.\u00a0\u00a0Our goal is simply to help ensure your meeting ends in success.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We know content:<\/strong> We have worked with for-profit and non-for-profit organizations across a wide range of content areas. Because we a have worked with such a diversity of different organizations &#8211;link to client list&#8211;, we have developed deep knowledge about organizational design, structure, governance and operations. We put this experience into practice each day as association managers. Click here for more information about our <a href=\"https:\/\/lighthouseamc.com\">association management practice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most organizations require strategic facilitation at\u00a0different points during their life cycle. Yet too often they fail to\u00a0realize the need\u00a0or see\u00a0its value.\u00a0 Why is that a mistake?\u00a0 Because, good strategic facilitation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousecg.com\/strategy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousecg.com\/strategy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousecg.com\/strategy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousecg.com\/strategy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousecg.com\/strategy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousecg.com\/strategy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousecg.com\/strategy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousecg.com\/strategy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}