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ICA Consulting Services

ICA facilitators bring years of experience helping groups work together to develop effective and creative solutions. We use Technologies of Participation - ToP - to work with large and small groups in making important decisions that affect the future of their organization. We can help draw out contributions from diverse participants and pool their ideas into larger, more information-rich patterns. Out methods weave polarization, conflict and diversity.into meaningful consensus and well considered decisions.

ICA Services

We provide state of the art facilitations services designed to maximize participation and creativity, assist you with complex discussions and difficult situations, and help you acheive your meeting objectives.

• Strategic, Long Range and Project Planning
• Stakeholder and Public Consultation
• Conference and Workshop Facilitation
• Partnership, Collaboration and Team Work
• Organizational Change
• Community Development
• Curriculum Design

Benefits of ICA Facilitation

Everyone Participates
People are looking for ways to make participation lead to creativity and consensus rather than bickering. Organizations want ways to honour each person, bring people together and promote positive dialogue. When people feel acknowledged, included and valued, they give their best to a situation. We can help you create a culture of participation that enables everyone to be at their best. ICA's Technologies of Participation will engage your group members in positive, productive dialogue.

Communication Pays
Lots of people say talk is cheap and communication is a problem. Organizations are learning that developing healthy communication is a valuable long term investment. ICA's methods enable people to talk with each other respectfully, hear all the perspectives and build consensus. We can help you get below the surface, address real concerns and build healthy communication patterns.

You need an ICA professional facilitator when

• High levels of participation and commitment are needed
• Neutrality is required for an honest, open discussion
• The leadership needs to actively participate in the discussion
• The topic is difficult and requires special handling
• New energy is needed for a breakthrough.
• Existing behaviour patterns have become predictable and stale
• Focus is required on a specific type of outcome
• The group does not know how to proceed with the discussion

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Consulting and Facilitation Services

Productive Meetings
Groups need to deal with many inter-related issues without wasting time in long, boring, unproductive meetings. We use our knowledge and experience to design processes that enable your meetings to flow. Our methods enable your group see relationships among ideas and make sense of what's going on. We help your group get from divergent ideas to consensus on plans they can implement. A meeting or planning process facilitated by ICA will save you time and money in meeting costs.

Creative Strategies
Groups want to create innovative, do-able solutions that get results and make a lasting impact. People are looking for creative strategies that will produce sustainable change. ICA uses processes that enable your group to think strategically and maximixe its own wisdom. We can enable your group to create innovative plans that will build a platform for sustainable impact. ICA strategic planning will bring focus to your plans and give you a way to respond quickly to changes.

Sustainable Commitment
Plans gathering dust on the shelf have no power and buy-in to the ideas or others dries up very quickly. Organizations are seeking ways to build the commitment necessary for effective implementation. People commit when they contribute ideas and participate meaningfully in decision making . We enable people to invest in their own future through participation in all phases of the planning process.Our workshops produce workable plans that people are committed to implement quickly. Participants come out of ICA planning sessions motivated and ready to act.

Government Pre-approvals

• ICA Associates Inc. is approved to teach Advanced Facilitation Skills to the Ontario Public Service.
• ICA Associates Inc. is a Vendor of Record, Reference Number OSS-074033, to the Ontario Public Service for Design, Development and Delivery of Classroom Learning / Training.
• ICA Associates Inc. is a Vendor of Record for Public Works Canada for Facilitation and for Organizational Management. Supply Arrangement No. is E60BQ-01ISSA/353/ST.
• ICA Associates Inc. is registered as a consulting firm with the Consulting and Audit Canada Skills Registration System.

ICA Associates Inc.
655 Queen Street East - Toronto, Ontario - M4M 1G4
Phone - 416-691-2316 - Canada toll-free - 1-877-691-1422