Expert facilitation guides people towards cohesive goals and powerful outcomes

 Need an expert facilitator to guide your group to a critical decision?

 

When it comes to decisions and agreements, organisations, committees, teams and boards all face the same challenge. How do you reach a successful group decision?

 

 Poor group decisions can cause catastrophic and lasting consequences:

 

•   Undefined direction
•   Destruction of morale
•   Low motivation  to perform
•   Loss of key staff and talent 
•   Failure to consider critical factors

 These effects can compound for years and lead to disastrous outcomes for an organisation.

 Successful group decisions can be extremely challenging to reach...........

 Impossible?

 Reaching a cohesive group decision with “buy-in” from all stakeholders can appear impossible.

 But when the stakes are high, you must find a way to reach the right decision. This is when you need an expert, independent facilitator.

 An independent facilitator can guide you to a successful outcome when: 

• Restructuring or transformation needs to take place

• Major decisions need to be locked in

• You have an idea and need stakeholder “buy-in”

• You need to allocate or reallocate roles and responsibilities

• New teams and units are being created 

•  Your organisation’s vision needs to be clarified 

•  Strategic priorities need to be decided on

• You need to undertake strategic planning 

•  Complex collaboration is required

 Facilitation is  ideal for strategic business planning, team development, consensus building on important issues, delicate negotiations and any other situation where a result needs to be facilitated.

 How to reach a positive outcome

 Brave Leadership uses the principles of inclusion, validation, shared understanding, mutual respect, full participation, dialogue and shared responsibility to reach the best-possible outcome efficiently through a facilitated meeting or  workshop.

Advantages of an expert facilitator

 An independent facilitator gives you the essential advantages of:

• Being independent and able to cut through the politics and personal agendas

• Maintaining a clear focus on important issues/s

  Speeding up the decision-making process”

  Speeding up the “buy-in” process

  Ensuring everyone’s views are heard, validated and discussed free of personal biasPrecisely identifying and resolving issues, objections and conflicts

   

  How it works

  To understand the challenge:

  •  We have a few scoping conversations and possibly a 1-2 hour meeting

  •   We review any relevant documents to understand the details behind the challenge

  On the day: 

  • We walk in with a very clear idea of where we need to be by the afternoon
  • We ensure everyone understands this
  • We use time as a lever for managing the room
  • We keep the discussion well-structured and on track
  • We move the room towards an agreed outcome

     

      After the day:

      We can write a brief summary or informal report, but this is not normally required.

     

    Are you ready to reach a strong, cohesive outcome?

     

    If you’d like to discuss your challenges with an expert facilitator, please call or e-mail Virginia Baker Woolf.

     Virginia Baker Woolf To find out more about how an external facilitator could drive outcomes, discuss your own topic or to schedule a presentation, contact Virginia Baker Woolf.