groupVision was established in the early 90s and has acquired a unique expertise in leading products for collaboration. Our in-depth understanding of group processes is based on a distilled experience of more than 15 years in computer support for cooperative learning with MeetingSphere. No matter your unique challenge, we can advise on a cost efficient solution for every group collaboration need and implement it with you.

1. Optimizing
Group
Collaboration

2. groupVision is part of a consortium founded by groupVision Switzerland, renowned experts in
group facilitation. We create and implement collaborative working environments for a range of
industries and the public sector, contributing to more productive meetings and training sessions.
groupVision takes people and organizations to higher levels of performance and achievement.
We provide software tools and the expertise to apply them in any type of collaborative working
environment. Combined with a clear understanding of your objectives we design interactive and
participative methodologies that transform your organization to thrive in the 21st century.
Established in the early 90s our company has acquired a
unique expertise in leading products for collaboration. Our
in-depth understanding of group processes is based on
a distilled experience of more than 15 years in computer
support for cooperative learning. No matter your unique
challenge, we can advise on a cost effective solution for
every group collaboration need and implement it with you.
About groupVision
“groupVision takes people and organizations to
higher levels of performance and achievement”

3. General scope of our services
Online Training For Hosts
90-minute training sessions for up to
four participants per session.
Template Design Services
Making best practices available
by mouse click across the entire
organization.
On-Site Training
Standard or tailored training sessions for
up to 12 people. Half or full days.
Workshop Facilitation Support
Enabling and supporting facilitators and
practitioners to take their workshop to
the next level.
Consulting Services
Helping you plan your MeetingSphere
pilot or roll-out, or boosting the
efficiency of standard processes by
using group communication technology.
Event Support
Everything on how to make your events
truly engaging and dynamic.
We can deliver our services on-site, online or in a hybrid format

4. groupVision delivers its meeting support services to both private and public organizations
according to the workshop-in-a-box concept.
Our methodology provides a clear and unique way to identify:
– What are your meeting requirements
– How can success be measured
– What is necessary to succeed
Our customers can choose the right level of service for their meetings and we have conceived
the workshop-in-a-box service to address your needs.
The workshop-in-a-box concept consists of a two-step
process:
1. A meeting on meeting, to jointly decide what
needs to be accomplished.
2. A group facilitator organizes your meeting and if
necessary can run the meeting.
With our group facilitation services we create both the
collaborative working environment and the collaborative
work system that is required to achieve a higher
performance.
“Our customers can choose the right level of
service for their meetings.”
Workshop Facilitation

5. There are two types of group facilitation:
Basic facilitation – Helps groups learn ground rules and develop ability to self-facilitate most conversations.
Developmental facilitation – Helps groups identify and change deeply held defensive routines and develop skills for leading organizational change and
transformation. Developmental facilitation strongly overlaps with organizational development (OD) interventions. OD = systemic and systematic change effort using
behavioural sciences knowledge and skills to transform the organization to a new state.
Our services can be delivered within these two intervention modes.
Group Facilitation
“Group facilitation is at the core of
our professional pratice.”

6. In Basic Facilitation, a group facilitated meeting normally consists of the following
stages and steps:
START
1. Analyze: Understand the topic and being clear on what kind of new
ideas that must be sought.
2. Formulate: Formulate the right questions.
OPEN
3. Activate: Removing obstacles to creativity and enable the free flow of
thoughts and ideas.
4.A Produce: Find large number of new ideas.
4.B Differentiate: Change and improve existing ideas.
DECIDE
5. Select: Selecting the best ideas in a first selection.
6. Refine: Refine and curate ideas in more concrete items.
7. Assess: Rate existing ideas based on different criteria.
8. Prioritize: Differentiate between immediately actionable ideas,
ideas for the medium term and for long term.
9. Document: Revision of work done.
TRANSFORM
10. Convert: Implement the best ideas into action.
Event Support
“We create both the collaborative working
environment and the collaborative work system
for group facilitation.”

7. Once the scope of the meeting is defined along with its objectives a different agenda template can be designed to respond to those objectives.
Our project fees include all the necessary work for assessing the meeting objectives, to design a meeting agenda, to run the meeting and to deliver a
report. The fees also include a debriefing session with the meeting owner with suggestions for improvement.
In developmental facilitation we anchor our practice with the use Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) and other organizational development approaches.
SSM is an approach to organizational process modeling (business process modeling) and it can be used both for general problem solving and in the
management of change.
Template Design

8. The Business Model Canvas
Developed for startup entrepreneurs or organizations in need of renewal the Business Model Canvas (BMC) is used to probe the team to think very deeply and
comprehensively about the business.
The canvas is best created collaboratively and lends itself to the use of e-meeting support tools. To that end, GroupVision has developed a general template that is
customized for specific engagements and hosted on our MeetingSphere collaborative platform.
We often augment the standard probing questions of the Business Model Canvas with companion questions taken from other similar frameworks like the bottleneck
focused strategy (EKS).
Consulting Services
“The Business Model Canvas is used to
probe the team to think very deeply and
comprehensively about the business.”

9. The EKS ® Strategie is a bottleneck focused strategy by Wolfgang Mewes. It is now part of the of the universe of the EKS Malik Management Zentrum in St. Gallen
in Switzerland.
The EKS operates through a series of phases based on concentration of forces, clearly defined targets, go for the gap and in-depth solutions to the prevailing problem.
The functional principles of the model can be summarised as follows:
Phase 1: Analyse own situation and unique strengths.
Phase 2: Determine the most promising market or broader field of endeavour.
Phase 3: Analyse the most promising target group.
Phase 4: Determine and analyse the most pressing and urgent problem (bottleneck ) of the target group.
Phase 5: Develop an innovative strategy focused on this pressing “bottleneck”.
Phase 6: Cooperate on solving the bottleneck.
Phase 7: Aim consistently at the fundamental needs and behaviour that is required to achieve and retain market leadership.
EKS

10. Sometimes organizations have their pockets of knowledge spread around the country or
around the world – how do you recapture that knowledge and apply it where you need it?
A process like Peer Assist can help one part of the organization learn what other parts already
know and learned “the hard way”.
groupVision has taken the proven process of “Peer Assist” and embedded it in the powerful
virtual collaboration platform we use in many of our engagements with clients. With virtual
peer assist, time and distance will not prevent you from discovering the key knowledge you
need to be successful on a project or effort.
Peer Assist
“Sometimes organizations just
don’t know what they know!”
A peer assist is a facilitated work-session, held face to
face or virtually, where peers from different teams and
organizations share their experiences and knowledge
with a team that has requested help in meeting an
upcoming challenge.
Our consultants can help you with peer assist efforts
around the corner or around the world.

11. Paulo Nunes de Abreu also known as Paul Nunesdea
is an organizational psychologist, MSc in Information
Management, Ph.D. in Management Science.
Paul optimizes group collaboration to bring around
consensus and peer learning in smart communities and
high-performance organizations.
He undertakes consultancy and applied research
projects with government agencies, municipalities
and private companies in close collaboration with
consultancy firms such as Price Waterhouse Coopers
(PWC) and Mckinsey & Co.
Jörn Kiewning based in Geneva is a Dipl. Kaufmann.
As a consultant and trainer for communication and
personal development he works for international
companies in Switzerland, Luxembourg and Germany.
His experience is based on several basic methods and
concepts like NLP, Transaction Analysis, EKS, gto etc.
As an instructional designer he develops blended
content and hybrid materials for learning and
collaboration.
Peter Beck is based in the Washington DC area and
is focused on creating productive meeting tools and
virtual events using MeetingSphere. He is an expert
at designing templates and creating meeting support
strategies.
Peter has many years of experience in Government
and Industry working with groups as a team facilitator,
support technographer and business consultant,
leveraging from his multiple degrees in Economics,
Business Administration, and Information Systems.
groupVision’s Principals

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