The Plumley Group

Accelerating Business Planning & Performance


Structured Meetings

We help you plan and deliver effective meetings that:

  • Use collaborative techniques to rapidly develop a solution and avoid lengthy development cycles
  • Leverage the expertise of participants to craft a work product
  • Expedite sound decision-making, achieve buy-in, and own action items
  • Increase participant engagement and involvement in key discussions
  • Reduce cross-functional conflict through collaboration and negotiation
  • Create add-on business value

    • For consultants: generate referrals and/or repeat business
    • For companies: speed implementation of projects that impact the bottom line

Our Services

What They Do


Rapid Planning for Important Meetings

  • Structure a meeting for success — accelerating the creation of a plan or process or other "product" within the meeting
  • Utilize decision frameworks and buy-in tools
  • Leverage techniques for collaboration and group processes
  • Perfect preparation of agenda, roles, activities, room structure


Meeting Re-engineering

  • Provide analysis of meeting plan and recommend success improvements
  • Refine meeting structure, processes, tools, documents
  • Provide tools for improving meetings
  • Independently observe meeting and generate a feedback report


Facilitation Assistance

  • Facilitation coaching
  • Meeting and offsite facilitation


Specialized Meetings

Meetings where we use our seasoned methodologies to achieve a special result:

  • Web-Content Focus Group — Identifies and prioritizes key Web content that will enable users to improve job performance
  • Process-Mapping Meeting — Collaboratively creates or improves a work process or a business process
  • Knowledge-Mapping Meeting — Identifies work practices, tools, knowledge that need to be retained and/or transferred for significant business impact
  • Service-Acceleration Meeting — For a new professional service, specifies the deliverables and the delivery process, creates a knowledge map and a capabilities/skill profile, and plans the launch of a consulting practice for
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