A handshake suggesting good business facilitation Business facilitation is about working outside your organisation. Helping you to establish and build effective partnerships.

The focus is on outcomes. We don’t just turn up and chair a session. We spend time with you beforehand to understand what you are trying to achieve. That might be to:

  • Establish a new joint venture or partnership.
  • Improve collaborative working with a supply chain partner.
  • Develop a joint offering with a third party.

We then create a structure and environment that makes it easier for you to work together. Bringing a range of tools and techniques proven to improve collaborative business relationships. Afterwards, we produce a report that summarises what you did. Capturing all of the key discussion points, decisions and agreed actions.

As an independent voice, we are able to challenge you and your partners. This helps to ensure decisions are well thought out, and brings objectivity to the process. Ultimately building greater trust between you and your partners, leading to more effective collaboration and successful partnerships.

OUR APPROACH

The most important things you need to know about our business facilitation:

A plan

You need to spend time with us. Before any business facilitation session, we will work with you to understand what it needs to deliver as a successful outcome and agree a plan. On the day, we then work with the attendees to set expectations and prepare them for what’s to come.

Post-it notes

We use a lot of Post-its. We have lots of other tricks that we use to keep the session moving but Post-its are an essential tool to ensure that everyone is given a voice.

Radar

We’ve got really good radar. Whilst we always have a plan, we can spot when energy levels dip or enthusiasm is waning and flex the session accordingly. We won’t stick rigidly to the plan; our focus is on delivering the outcomes that you want whilst keeping everyone focussed and in the room.

Business facilitation - electronic report

We follow up. After the session, all of the outputs and outcomes are captured and shared in a report that goes out to everyone who participated.

 

Not sure if business facilitation is what you need? Let us have your number and we’ll drop you a line. Let’s talk.