Facilitation
It is damned irritating but an undeniable fact that an experienced and objective external facilitator can make all the difference to the outcome of an important meeting.
However when we talk facilitation we don’t mean delivering stupid ‘ice breakers’ that are apparently designed to get us all ‘thinking out of the box’ but normally result in participants feeling irritated or touchy feely nonsense that makes sure everyone ‘feels’ OK!
Instead what we do is provide you with a seasoned corporate player who, as well as being a highly effective facilitator from a technical and interpersonal perspective, has the business awareness, flexibility and energy to ensure that your business objectives for the meeting are clarified, articulated and achieved by helping you to prepare for, and then lead an engaging meeting where all participants contribute and where issues are brought out into the open for scrutiny and resolution.
An external and therefore objective facilitator can provide considerable advantage in these circumstances, saving endless meeting time and driving participants to come to conclusions in the most expeditious manner possible. The role is of course highly sensitive and it is crucial that you choose a facilitator who can demonstrate empathy and understanding whilst also being skilled enough to know just the right moment to push the group to the next level.
Guess what? We can do that! We have lots of experience of working within highly charged corporate environments and helping teams of leaders to work more effectively together in pursuing the companies goals. Contact us and make your next away day much more effective.
"Just a brief note, to thank you for the excellent work you undertook organising and running our recent 2 day Senior Management Conference in Spain. It was the first time, we have used an external person to design and facilitate the running of the conference and the best compliment I can give you, is to say 'we will definitely' use your services many times again.
Your attention to detail was really something special. The fact that you ensured you did enough research in getting to 'know our business model' by visiting a number of plants in the UK and Spain & met our HR Director and Vice Presidents in advance really paid off. As you know we have almost 20 Senior Managers from 11 Countries participating and the fact that you got their attention at all times 'speaks for itself'.
During the event, you proved very adept at facilitating engagement and involvement and encouraging all to contribute, even for some whose English language was not strong. At the same time, you managed, during the many sessions, to get people to understand the business challenges they are facing and committing actions towards a more challenging but achievable set of goals and objectives.
In addition, I was very impressed that you ensured that the outputs of the meeting were available immediately upon its conclusion so that we have been able to leverage the 'positive momentum' generated towards real and measurable progress for our business. " - President, AB Mauri