Organizations and groups, when they are making important decisions, often need a skilled third party. This person can guide their process of deliberation and help them sharpen their thinking about the issues they are grappling with.

Columbia Energy offers professionals who know about group dynamics and who can work effectively with clients in high-pressure situations to come up with creative solutions.

Using a skilled facilitator can relieve managers of the need to tend both to the process of a meeting and the complex substance of business conversations. Meetings are expensive. Our facilitators are experts at planning and running meetings so that you can get the biggest payoff in terms of agreements reached and commitments made. Our professionals, experts in group dynamics, can help you get the most out of meetings and group discussions.

Columbia Energy can help you move through conflicts in your organization that you may think cannot be resolved.

Today's workplace is no stranger to conflict. The faster the pace of work and the more pressure there is to produce results, the more likely it is that organizations will experience intense and often protracted conflict. We use a "validating" style that emphasizes first areas of agreement in a conflictual situation as well as common interests and goals. Our approach also relies on relationship-building and trust development among people in conflict with one another.