Intelligent Business Facilitation

Decisions without politics

CJB Corporate Coaching offers group coaching and facilitation services to private and public sector businesses in Hampshire, South East of England and the rest of the UK. CJB Corporate Coaching have facilitated workshops, meetings and events for many industries including financial, manufacturing, local and central government, education and non departmental public bodies, looking at forward planning and strategy, and solving problems around organisation, process and infrastructure.

Using a facilitator to run your workshops and meetings enables you to concentrate on getting the best out of your business.

Facilitation

It is exceedingly difficult to run a discussion and contribute at the same time. Especially if you need your team to tackle some challenges, do some teambuilding or plan your future strategy? Engaging a facilitator to run the session and take care of the process is much more likely to lead to you achieving consensus and meeting your objectives because everyone will have taken part.

Facilitation is more than standing at a flipchart and brainstorming. It is an overarching process that moves the discussion towards a tangible and valuable conclusion. It seeks to involve everyone equally and to ensure that no one voice, opinion or viewpoint dominates the discussion. It builds consensus and focuses the group on what is truly important and consequently where there is the will for change.

A good facilitator will:

  • Design the event processes to ensure the required outcomes are achieved
  • Moderate and referee the process
  • Control the pace, through timeboxing, drilling down or parking items
  • Help the flow of the meeting using appropriate tools, techniques and interventions, for example ice-breakers and tension reduction, a good facilitator will have a sense of humour
  • Make constructive, honest and objective input to the discussion
  • Enable, empower and encourage the team to take part
  • Provide feedback on both how well things are going and where they are going
  • Counsel, coach, persuade and cajole as necessary to maintain progress and focus
  • Energise and invigorate when the group become bogged down in the subject matter
  • Apply conversion techniques to turn negative and destructive outlooks into positive, solution bearing opportunities

Intelligent Business Facilitation does all the above but also captures the outputs in frameworks that enable subsequent study and analysis providing the building blocks for further development. This can also provide an audit trail of how each decision was arrived at. A good example of this would be using a competitive analysis framework to capture a discussion about what other products existed and how their owners were approaching the market.

Based on your required outcome we will design a suitable approach tailored to you organisation using a variety of tools and techniques, for example SWOTs, PESTS, Porter 5 Forces etc, to guide and document the process and ensure consensus. We can also work with you to build and coach your team’s ability to work together to solve problems. With our support you can concentrate on developing solutions rather than focusing on what is or is not happening in the group.

Call me now on 01420 588172 to discuss your requirements and how we can structure your workshop to really achieve your objectives.

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