Organizational Leaders:

Are you tired of endless unproductive meetings that leave people frustrated, exhausted and accomplish little?

Just imagine meetings…

  • that generate innovative thinking from each person

  • where everyone is fully engaged in discussions and decisions

  • that don’t get bogged down in conflict

  • where consensus is reached between diverse stakeholders

  • that are so energized and productive that people don’t want to miss them!

Sierra Circle Consulting works with business, agency, and non-profit, groups and leaders in the Western USA who need to collaborate successfully within their organization or with outside groups, yet experience stressful, unproductive, frustrating, and confusing meetings.

Are you are leading or participating in meetings where disrespectful attitudes and power games lead to awkward and confusing discussions and mediocre decisions? Sierra Circle Consulting can help you.

Are you bringing people together from different functions, departments, or geography and need to work collaboratively without turf issues and egos getting in the way?  Sierra Circle Consulting can help you.

How much did your last unproductive meeting cost in time and money? In lost opportunities? Stress? In the longer term cost of low staff morale? Sierra Circle Consulting can help you.

Sierra Circle Consulting can help  you minimize the behaviors that block collaboration, that waste time, drain energy, and that don’t achieve needed outcomes.

Pat Tuecke

Patricia Tuecke

I’m Patricia Tuecke, owner and president of Sierra Circle Consulting. I use participatory, interactive group processes that turn mundane meetings into meaningful meetings that matter. I can help you as I have helped hundreds of other leaders.

No longer will discussions go round in circles, veer away from sticky issues, and stay at a shallow level. No longer will you get silence when you ask for creative suggestions. And if an overwhelming number of ideas are flying around , I can help you make sense of all the data. 

Meetings do matter. They are a key leverage point for creating a focused, energized organization that accomplishes what it sets out to do — with amazing results. Though skilled in many areas, most leaders haven’t learned the skills of facilitating meetings that ensure both full group participation and targeted outcomes.

 “Successful leaders need to feel comfortable with participation because involvement builds the commitment that leads to competative results.” Peter Laux, Manager, TQ Development & Training, Texas Instruments

If you want to improve your organization’s performance, and you want to make your meetings more productive, enjoyable and less stressful, you are in the right place. I can help you in three ways:

  1. As a professional group facilitator I design and facilitate meetings that catalyze a group’s collective wisdom to make informed decisions, strategic thinking to create winning directions, and energy and commitment to implement action plans. These kind of results will optimize your investment of time, money and energy.

“Our four-hour symposium, with some 65 attendees including agency representatives, TMTA members and recreational trail users, went off smoothly and we achieved more that we’d hope to achieve. Again, thank you for planning and facilitating our event.” Christine Cendagorta, Board Chair, Truckee Meadows Trails Assoc.

  1. As a trainer I will help you learn the simple yet effective facilitation skills that I use that will give you the confidence to lead participative group sessions successfully and with ease.
  2. As a coach I will help you develop a facilitative leadership style that will ensure your meetings happen as creative, energizing, productive experiences – both for you and your group. I will help your team(s) develop the collaborative skills necessary for high achievement in today’s workplace.

That is what “facilitate” means - to make things easier. Group facilitators provide the focus and processes for interaction that easily increase a group’s capacity for depth dialogue, consensus decision making, planning and collaborative action. They make it easier for groups to find common ground and move forward together. Yes, you can have meetings like this. And imagine the increase in productivity, teamwork, and morale that will occur!

“I feel more comfortable to know that I have a method that works; we always come up with a good outcome. Highly participatory - gets everyone involved, not only the outspoken.” R. J. Cardin, Arizona State Dept. of Parks & Recreation.

You may be wondering if my approach can really help you. I have a solid record of success that proves that my approach works. I specialize in the remarkable Technology of Participation (ToP®) methods that are used by thriving organizations around the world that value a participative culture.

My monthly newsletter, Participation Matters, gives you tips on how to get full participation in meetings and make them more engaging, authentic, accessible and rewarding. You’ll find resources to help you become a facilitative leader – articles, books, upcoming conferences and workshops.

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Learn about groups and leaders I work with and some of the issues they face on the Who I Work With page.