18 Sep Facilitating Meetings
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Description
Get much more out of your meetings and take a giant step towards improving team engagement and functionality. Team meetings are where much of the team decisions and interactions occur. Using a few tools and strong facilitation can increase contribution and reduce ineffective conflict and increase psychological safety.
This is the second session of the 2024–2025 Team Science Seminar Series.
Event Materials
3 MBSLIDE PRESENTATION – Facilitating MeetingsLearning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Apply 2 primary tools for team meetings.
- Understand 2 facilitation techniques.
Schedule of Activities
12:00–12:05pm – Welcome, Overview, Introductions
12:05–12:55pm – Presentation and Q&A
12:55–1:00pm – Thank You and Feedback Survey
About the Speaker
Jennifer Sprecher is Director of Strategy Development and Deployment with the School of Nursing. Ms. Sprecher works with organizations to achieve excellence through Strategy development, Lean Project Management, balanced scorecards, change management, benchmarking, team problem solving, team and leadership coaching.
Ms. Sprecher is a strong team facilitator, called upon to facilitate high-level teams where interaction and reaching objectives are critical. Sample facilitations include strategic planning, building collaborations, designing and developing new services, products and processes, implementing process improvements, implementing research studies and creating new research centers. She has worked extensively in the past few years within the arena of team science and applying team concepts to innovative development and research teams.
Before the UW School of Nursing, Ms. Sprecher focused exclusively on health research in the Institute of Translational Health Sciences, also within the University of WA. Prior to the UW, she spent 7 years as Executive Director of the Washington State Quality Award (WSQA), a Baldrige-based non-profit organization. With a background in Industrial Engineering, Ms. Sprecher has been working with process improvement for over 25 years using continuous process improvement methods including Lean, Lean-Sigma, Plan Do Check Act and 6S (5S workplace organization combined with Safety) and Total Quality Management.
Ms. Sprecher has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, a Master’s of Science in Management Systems, is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and an International Coaching Federation ACC-certified Leadership Coach.
