Team FacilitationTeam facilitation is about working within your organisation. Helping your teams to navigate complex challenges or bring balance to the team dynamic. We bring an independent voice that helps to keep conversations focused.

Facilitated meetings

You’ve played with ropes, made towers out of marshmallows and walked across planks. You’ve built your team but now they need to communicate effectively in the workplace. Sometimes teams that play well together don’t necessarily work well together.

We bring fresh perspectives to re-energise your team and help develop effective working relationships. We help you to use your meeting time effectively. Introducing new approaches that will make boring meetings a thing of the past. We help you to focus on generating real outputs.

The focus of facilitated meetings is to produce an output. 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:

  • Solve a problem.
  • Think creatively to generate new ideas.
  • Develop a strategy.

We then create a structure and environment that makes it easy for you to collaborate. Bringing a range of tools and techniques to provide focus. Afterwards, we produce a report that summarises what you did. Capturing all of the important decisions, challenges and outcomes.

Facilitated learning

You’ve read the book, watched a few videos and attended the training. But now you want to translate that learning into action.

The facilitated learning approach underpins many of our programme workshops. The only real difference is the level of direction that we provide. Here, our input is kept to a minimum.

The team learns through discussion, clarifying concepts and evaluating each other’s ideas. Ideally, you will schedule facilitated learning to take place the week after training. This greatly improves your ability to remember what you have learnt. We have a video that explains why on our YouTube channel. Teams that learn collaboratively not only keep information for longer but will also attain higher level thinking.

The focus of facilitated learning is to develop skills in a sustainable way. Or to learn about each other and strengthen your working relationships. We help keep the conversations focused, introducing relevant models and concepts as needed. Quite often, we use something called an Action Learning Set, which ensures everyone in the team is able to participate. We create the structure and environment that makes it easy for you to learn collaboratively.

Our Approach

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

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Step 1: You’ll need to let us in. Before we can run any successful team facilitation session we will need to understand the dynamics of the team. This usually involves spending some time within your organisation and conducting individual assessments. These aren’t as scary as they sound. They are aimed at finding out more about what motivates and drives team members as well as preferred communication styles.

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Step 2: It might be uncomfortable. If we’re there, there’s usually a problem and to fix it we might need to talk about it – this isn’t always easy. Finding out what makes you tick and what drives your behaviours can also be an uncomfortable experience. Team interactions will be put under a spotlight.

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Step 3: It will be alright in the end. Our facilitators are skilled in getting blockers and issues resolved. When we are finished we leave you with the tools and techniques that will let your team create their own lightbulb moments.

 

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