Anonymous wrote:It can be a part of event planning.

I agree

Np. A part of meeting facilitation I am good at and enjoy is helping to reach solutions / find consensus. Sure I manage time and all that, but sometimes I wonder about mediation as a profession though I hear it can be awful. Op - do you like that part? Could mediation be for you?

What about Chief of Staff jobs?

As a woman, I say stay out of being labeled good at this.

I say this as someone who is good at logistics and meeting management and things like that. I’m basically good at getting things done.

It’s a way to keep you out a strategic roles in general.

Just be normally good at it, but don’t make that your whole personality. I find that it keeps you in this sort of administrative quagmire that I don’t like to be in.

You could conduct focus groups

Anonymous wrote:Like another PP said, it can be a part of event planning. But a lot more goes into it than what you're doing at your company.

I'm an event planner and it can be part of that field but more than likely, you will be hired by event planners to facilitate meetings as an independent contractor. The planner is usually dealing with things outside of the meeting room so its hard to do both jobs at once. If you want to make a career out of it, you would likely have to start your own business but there may be some opportunities within large association management or convention planning companies that offer meeting facilitation as a service.

My answer would be the thing you are already doing! Program/project management

Anonymous wrote:You first need to figure out if you are actually very talented at it or if others feign incompetence so they don’t get stuck with low value tasks. Usually non assertive women get saddled
with low-value admin tasks.

+1. You also need to figure out how sustainable it would be to center your career around something you dislike doing. I can put on a good face and do a great job with facilitation, but if I had to do it day in and day out I'd be miserable.

You first need to figure out if you are actually very talented at it or if others feign incompetence so they don’t get stuck with low value tasks. Usually non assertive women get saddled
with low-value admin tasks.

Like another PP said, it can be a part of event planning. But a lot more goes into it than what you're doing at your company.

Some kind of corporate trainer? Something in project management?

It can be a part of event planning.

A sustainable career of its own?

I get major kudos and awards at work for this one aspect of my current career in program management. It’s actually something I dislike but apparently I am incredibly good at this skill.

If I use this strength professionally, what would I be doing? Where would I be working to have a sustainable career in meeting facilitation?