General Facilitation Services

Here is a quick list of typical facilitation interventions we offer:

Top team meetings

Brain storming sessions

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Dispute resolution

Strategic planning

Marketing planning

Effective meeting design

Meeting facilitation

Conflict resolution

Large group interventions

Organisation development

Electronic meeting systems

Team building

Project management and programme management

Now for more detail, please read on: -

What do we do?
We provide facilitation services, world-wide, to suit your requirements, and we cater for a wide range, see below!

• Simple, straight facilitation, at short notice or on request, from half a day up. Group sizes from 3 up to 100+. You or your travel department provide the arrangements, organisation and venue. Charges from £275 through to ...
• Full service facilitation, by arrangement, from half a day up. Group sizes from 3 up to 650! We will make all arrangements necessary including everything from venue to transport arrangements to participant invitations and accommodation. Charges based on requirements.
• We will work with your staff and departments, and other external and internal consultants to ensure a successful outcome.
• We will also train your own facilitators, from beginner level through to highly specialised and advanced. While we cover a broad spectrum, we specialise in giving risk facilitation at all levels ourselves, as well as training your facilitators to suit your needs.

  So what do we mean by facilitation? - To quote the IAF (International Association of Facilitators) facilitation is the art of:
  "Unlocking the power of a group through dialogue and pursuit of clarity; engaging active participation and embracing the richness of diverse perspective.
  Through facilitation the multifaceted potential of a team is released. By utilising solid managerial know-how and by evoking individual and collective leadership, good facilitation enables solutions where difficulties appear insurmountable.
  It is a fitting discipline for complex times."

  Why use a Facilitator?
  As it says in the above definition - we unlock the power of your group through dialogue and pursuit of clarity. We engage in active participation and embrace and leverage the diversity of the group assembled. We embrace the opportunity with warmth, energy and an unconditional regard for the power and competence of the individuals within the group.
  Our facilitation services help you avoid the pitfalls of common meetings. We act as your guide and will help all participants focus on the tasks at hand.
  The facilitator actively encourages collaboration through non-adversarial techniques so all group members exchange information in an environment where people are much more likely to help develop and then implement solutions rather than obstruct or oppose them.
  The result is an extremely efficient and productive decision-making process. Typically we will capture more views, data, suggestions and solutions in a third of the usual time, resulting in an extremely efficient investment not only in terms of actual costs but also in terms of opportunity costs gained.

What can our facilitators do?
The choice of how much we do is up to you and which level of service you require. As an example, for full service our facilitators will consult with the meeting sponsor (and customer/participants as appropriate) to agree the session(s) objectives and plan the method and approach for achieving them. They will write this up into a project definition and issue it to the sponsor.
Other stakeholders may need to be consulted as appropriate. Once all is agreed (which we understand can take from a few minutes to weeks, depending on the organisation and issue to be resolved), they will make all necessary arrangements to convene the meeting. We are happy to work with various venues, ranging from the local hotel conference room through to purpose built suites to cruise liners!
For the participants, we can carry out pre-meeting interviews and workshops to enhance the outcomes of the main event, even make their travel and accommodation arrangements from anywhere in the world.
When the meeting/event is convened our facilitator will manage the group during their sessions to help keep their focus on achieving the objectives at hand.
At the conclusion of the event we will quickly write up the output and distribute to all, handle revision/new input and deliver the final documentation as required. We will also arrange follow up work to track the success of the event and delivery of benefits. This can then lead into coaching and mentoring services if you require.

Contact us now to discuss your needs and arrangements