What is Facilitation? Facilitation makes challenging meetings easier. We are called to facilitate when you are seeking:
- A neutral guide
- Equal and fair involvement from each participant
- A unbiased perspective on an issue
- Someone who can champion the process and not shape the content
Group facilitation is the art and science of managing group sessions in such settings as: strategic planning sessions, team meetings, problem solving, visioning, decision making, and conflict resolution situations.
What is Facilitated Insights™ ?
Our facilitation is based on our vision of helping groups and individuals to “Delve Deeper, Reach Higher and Go Further,” resulting in more creative ways of solving problems, developing successful long-term strategies , building and sustaining high performing teams and leading organizations beyond where they could easily imagine. Our work is about getting beyond our current thinking and mindsets.
What makes a Good Facilitator?
Good facilitators create an environment of trust in which group members share ideas, opinions, experiences, and expertise in order to achieve a common goal and/or vision.
Good facilitator's possess a variety of qualities and skills, such as:
- The ability to recognize one's own biases while remaining neutral
- Inspiring trust among group members
- Possess innate personality traits such as listening skills, ability to read body language
- Assertiveness, knowing when to speak up, holding persons accountable to agreed ground rules, providing feedback on staying with the agreed upon agenda and time frame
What is a general facilitation process?
- Establishing Group Orientation
- Getting the Group Acquainted
- Encouraging Group Participation
- Developing Group Structure
- Determining Group Interactions
- Managing Group Conflict
- Maintaining Group Agreements
- Setting Group Norms
- Building Group Cohesion
- Accomplishing Group Tasks
- Reaching Group Consensus
- Meeting Group Objectives
- Providing Group Closure
- Engaging Group Feedback & Next Steps
- Acknowledging Group Work & Session Wrap-up