(Engage People With Expert Facilitation)
 Every day, successful leaders engage expert facilitators to help people get on the same page. Facilitators bring expertise in the design and facilitation of the process.
- Thanks Jack for your inspired leadership in our recent board mission retreat. We are thrilled with the outcome and look forward to working with you more! / Scott Sanders / Director, Earth Day Coalition
Facilitation is required when the goal is to:
- Bring out people's best ideas
- Connect people's knowledge & resources in new ways
- Create consensus in an environment of trust
- Align people in a common direction
- Engage people in new opportunities for collaboration
- Build the conditions for follow-through, accountability, and success
Facilitation works best when the organization approaches the process with a few key premises:
- People do best when they take responsibility for their performance and improvement
- People have the essential strengths for improvement
- New levels of performance depend on new ways of using existing strengths
- Improvement = improvisation + feedback
Facilitators bring a unique set of skills in designing and engaging small and large group work for optimum results. The facilitator advantage is that they are skilled and experienced in the areas of organization development, creativity, complex group process, change management, trust building, teamwork, performance psychology, communication, consensus building, goal deployment, and project management.
Facilitators work from 4 core principles:
- People move faster when they move together
- People tend to be smarter together
- People tend to support most what they help create
- The quality of a group's outcomes depends on the quality of its process
Jack has successfully facilitated events and engagements in the following venues:
- Organization-wide, leadership, and board meetings & retreats
- Community meetings and events
- Idea, breakout, and planning sessions
- Community & team building events
- Strategic planning and visioning processes
- Special events & networking gatherings
- Education & training events & programs
- Organization & reorganization planning
- Projects
- Focus groups
Using successful tools like Open Space Technology, the Dream Space process, and IdeaGardening, expert facilitation keeps the process open, creative, engaging, and reality-centered enough to produce new levels of alignment, innovation, and performance.
Jack helps organizations and communities design, plan, facilitate, and follow-up these for outstanding results. With his partner George Nemeth in the firm, Smart Meeting Design, he can also provide you with the latest in online collaborative tools and technologies to accellerate the process and optimize participation and archiving results.
To find out more, contact Jack at jack at designinglife.com or 216.373.7475
Facilitation Training
Facilitation is the process of engaging a group's strengths in exploring a new question or achieving a new outcome. Facilitation is key when the project or situation is more about participation than compliance.
This workshop will feature information and practice in the core competencies of effective facilitators including:
- Reading the group's patterns and shifts in their individual and collective energy, mood, attitude, interests, and dynamics
- Assessing the group's strengths and capability limitations
- Synthesizing complex, sensitive conversations, discussions and debates
- Helping everyone feel authentically valued for their ideas, perceptions, values, beliefs, needs
- Building common ground and consensus from diverse agendas and perspectives
- Keeping discussions data driven
- Moving the group from talk to action
- Helping everyone be present to others in the process
- Giving the group assistance in organizing tasks, timelines, and resources
- Leveraging the group’s social networks to optimize natural communication and collaboration channels
- Inspiring people moving outside their comfort zones
- Fostering creativity and thinking outside the box in planning, problem-solving
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