It is important that a skilled facilitator lead meetings with all of the tools and techniques to handle difficult meetings at his or her disposal. The first task for a facilitator is to gain agreements on the meeting “set-ups.”
One way to mitigate charrette costs is to utilize volunteer design professionals, university professors, and students as part of the charrette design team.
In the NCI curriculum, walking tours are a part of the stakeholder involvement sub-phase of the Charrette Preparation phase of the NCI Charrette System.
One of NCI’s core values of community involvement is that anyone affected by a project has an important and unique contribution to make and, therefore, should be involved from the beginning.