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Facilitation
Effective facilitation of team days and company meetings, workshops, webinars and conferences is crucial in today’s interconnected and collaborative, yet sometimes fragmented world. It serves as a cornerstone for effective communication, decision-making, relationship-building and problem-solving within groups, teams and organisations.
By exploring goals and objectives, setting agendas, guiding discussions, ensuring that all voices are heard, and fostering a collaborative environment, facilitation can help teams and organisations explore their vision, objectives, and values, to navigate complex challenges and achieve their goals more efficiently. External facilitation can transform the dynamics of communication and interaction, and help you achieve clarity, inclusivity, and productivity.
What We Offer
Through our professional and skilled facilitation, we ensure your meetings, team days, workshops and conferences are well-organised, focused on your vision and goals, productive and interesting. We will support you with:
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Agenda setting:
Helping you to design your meeting for optimal impact, including:
Purpose: Why are you bringing people together?
Context: What do you need to consider?
Objectives: What are you focussing on?
Outcomes: What do we want to achieve?
Measures of success: How do you define a successful meeting outcome?
Structure: What format will the meeting take?
Scope: What is in and what is out?
Participants: Who do you want in the room?
Preparation: Will there be any pre-work? Does the agenda need to be shared?
Agenda: Who needs to be involved in this?
Moving forward: How do you plan to make decisions
Strategic Planning:
Guiding your team through the process of setting and achieving strategic goals, and creating values, behaviours and culture to achieve these
Team Alignment:
Guiding the meetings to ensure that all team members have a voice and work towards common objectives
Conflict Resolution:
Addressing and resolving conflicts constructively to maintain a positive team dynamic
Relationship building:
Creating an environment of trust, support, collaboration and fun
Why bring in an external facilitator?
Objectivity and Neutrality: We provide an unbiased perspective, which helps in managing conflicts and ensuring that all voices are heard
Expertise and Experience: We can bring specialised knowledge, skills, and experience in facilitation techniques that internal staff may not have
Focus on Process: We handle the logistics, time management, and dynamics of the meeting, to enable internal participants to fully engage in the content and outcomes of the session
Creativity and Fresh Perspectives: We can introduce new ideas and approaches that internal members might not consider, and foster an environment that encourages creative thinking and innovation
Conflict Management: In situations where there is potential for conflict or disagreement, we can help mediate and manage tensions effectively, fostering a more collaborative environment
Accountability and Follow-through: If appropriate, we can help ensure that agreed-upon actions and decisions are documented and followed up on, promoting accountability and continuity ​
We also offer facilitation skills training if you would like to build up your internal facilitation skills capabilities. The course covers aspects such as:
Effective meeting planning and design
Practicalities of facilitation
How to be a great facilitator- key skills
Facilitating a group
Facilitation tools
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Depending on the topic and size of group, we may bring in other specialist facilitation consultants to support.