Contract Number: GS-02F-0175X

Contract Period: May 31, 2011 through May 31, 2016

Business Size: Small, Disadvantaged, Women-Owned, Veteran-Owned

DUNS: 783564867

NAICS:

• 541611 - Admin. Management and General Management Consulting
• 541612 - HR Consulting Services
• 611430 - Professional and Management Development Training

• 874-4: Training Servies: Instructor Led Training
• 874-2: Facilitation Services

As a Facilitator, Gary facilitates many types of workshops. He is uniquely qualified to assist you in understanding, managing and implementing facilitated workshops supporting your methodology in your organization. He is an expert at engaging participants and guiding them to consensus. His primary goal is to get a group of individuals to form as a team, learn to communicate, and achieve a goal or accomplish a task.

"A Facilitator is a content neutral person who guides the group to consensus using effective processes to enable a group to make effective decisions while supporting a collaborative and respectful environment that encourages full participation and helps groups overcome barriers to accomplish their task. The Facilitator is responsible for the Context." (Rush, 2011, p 1).

An IAF Certified™ Professional Facilitator (CPF) is a credentialed Facilitator who has demonstrated evidence of meeting the IAF Core Facilitator Competencies.

Some training programs provide “soft” skills that enable people to work together, but don’t teach “how to” build a product. Other training programs provide “process” skills that enable people to build a product, but don’t teach “how to” enable people to work together. FoCuSeD™ defines the seamless integration of process and group dynamics expanding processes to cover any group activity applicable in business and in life. You must pro-actively plan the emotional group cycle along with the workshop process to build a product – one without the other is fruitless. This is the essence of FoCuSeD™.

• All of our classes provide consistency in terminology, models, and concepts that are built upon the fundamental principles of facilitation – they share ideas using a consistent basis of understanding.
  This ensures that everyone holds the same fundamental principles.
• You learn “how to” effectively combine Relationship Behavior and Task Behavior to drive out task success along with team performance.
  This ability is critical to bringing people together to accomplish a task.
• All of our classes provide specific tools to improve communication to meet project needs.
  This ensures support and commitment from stakeholders.
• All of our classes are effective, comprehensive, and provide a complete set of skills, knowledge, and practice that your staff is able to apply and use immediately upon completion.
  This ensures that what is learned, is immediately applicable.

• Contact Gary Rush to schedule a Private/On-Site class.
• Client provides the classroom, 2 flip charts with pads of paper, 1 projector screen, and optional refreshments for their students.
• Prices exclude reimbursable travel expenses – travel is invoiced following Federal Travel Regulations.

• We offer public, open enrollment classes in Chicago, IL, Austin, TX, Washington, DC, and San Jose, CA.
• See Public Class Dates & Info on our website.

• Fee covers training, materials, continental breakfast, and lunch.
• Additional costs include travel, hotel, and dinner. Public classes are taught at a hotel and MGR Consulting, Inc. has a block of rooms at the hotel at a reduced rate. Contact MGR Consulting, Inc. for applicable hotel rates.

MGR Consulting, Inc. has designed and delivered over a dozen different courses. We can take any of our course content – facilitation skills, leadership skills, diversity and inclusion, team-building, problem-solving, managing conflict, dealing with difficult people, presentation skills, etc. – and create a custom course that meets both your needs in terms of content as well as in terms of number of training days and number of participants.

Each project is custom, depending on the Statement of Work and requirements from the requestor. Gary Rush, IAF CPF, will work with the client and request to develop a proposal covering course design, course delivery, and follow up/administration. Our labor rates are:

Note: Our minimum charge is one-half (½) day (4 hours). Our maximum one-day fee is for 8 hours. MGR Consulting, Inc. does not charge overtime. When proposing and invoicing, we work in whole and half day increments only.