Facilitation

Sometimes a team needs external, expert help to work through an important topic or issue, for example:

• Solving a particular problem or challenge,
• Generating ideas,
• Forming a strategy or plan,
• Making an important decision, or
• Making sense of a large and/or varied amount of information.

Although the topics may vary, a facilitated session will often have the same elements. We use a tried and tested set of skills and tools to help clients:

• Make sense of an issue or topic,
• Clarify the goals and desired outcomes,
• Explore perspectives,
• Generate alternatives,
• Engage in healthy and constructive discussion,
• Manage disagreements / tensions,
• Agree criteria for decision making / selection,
• Make the required decisions, and
• Form and agree a plan of action.

By using our experienced facilitators, you and your team are “freed up” to participate fully in the discussion, rather than having to chair the meeting, or manage / maintain the focus, boundaries, behaviours or pace of the meeting.