The Facilitation Center

The Facilitation Center is an internationally recognized management training and leadership development consulting firm. Our facilitation processes work with small or large groups and are customized to meet your needs. Both facilitation training and our workshops are available on or off site.

Workshops
Using best practices from leadership development, teambuilding, and strength-based approaches, the Facilitation Center offers education and training for at risk youth, their families and service providers. Available on request, the 30 hour “FLAME” program can be offered to groups or individuals. One-on-one coaching is also available on an hourly rate.

Facilitation Training
Managing dialogue and group processes can be a challenging task in our diverse and complex work environments. Facilitation skills provide the means by which leaders and managers can produce high performance results from teams and decision groups. This 3 level certification series is designed specifically for mid to upper management and management consultants.

Strategic Planning
Manage time and resources towards meeting your outcomes. Strategic planning workshops offered by the Facilitation Center provide a proven process for effective strategic planning that accelerates outcomes achievement. The process focuses on structured dialogue, inclusion, consensus-building and decision-making which are useful for creating visions, performance objectives or outcomes, policy formulation, and action planning.

Custom Designs
An international consulting firm, the Facilitation Center custom designs all of its in-house training programs, workshops, and process facilitations to meet the specific needs in outcomes, timeframes, scheduling challenges, and unique characteristics of each organization. Our professionals are committed to meeting the needs of the organization and individuals rather than marketing a specified approach. In business since 1993, we have served clients at the local, state, regional, national, and international levels; worked with Fortune 100 companies and executives; heads of state and leaders in all stages of development. Our skills include conflict resolution, teambuilding, dialogue management, systems thinking, and consensus decision-making.

Sue Catana
410 Roaring Branch Road
Stony Creek, NY 12878
518-696-2710
scatana@frontiernet.net

The principal consultant, trainer and facilitator for the Facilitation Center is Dr. Sue Catana who has worked with hundreds of clients in corporate, public and non-profit organizations since 1993. As a master facilitator she has led processes to resolve high risk, high conflict, high stakes issues at the local, national, regional, and international levels. She has assisted individuals at the board, executive, middle management, and line staff levels in developing their leadership skills and competence. Organizations have used her dynamic, interactive and custom designed processes to address issues, solve problems, teambuilding, strategic planning, organizational change and development, and leadership development. She serves on corporate and community boards, is the president of her local Chamber of Commerce and is an active member of Rotary International-Glens Falls Club. In 2007 she opened Moon Shadow Lodge as a host facility for workshops and facilitated retreats.