Facilitation

With the rate of change and the challenge to maintain high performance, managers are increasingly turning to outside facilitators with the right expertise to guide them through team decision-making and information sharing. Developing a robust business strategy is also difficult without a facilitator to drive a high quality outcome.

What does a facilitator do?

A facilitator is an impartial process manager for groups (of 2 or more) helping them to come to consensus decisions that value the combined perspectives and expertise of all participants. Facilitation concerns itself with all the tasks needed to run a productive and impartial meeting. Facilitation serves the needs of any group who are meeting with a common purpose, whether it be making a decision, solving a problem, or simply exchanging ideas and information. It does not lead the group, nor does it try to distract or to entertain.

IKD facilitators

IKD facilitators will give you give you clear principles and steps that enable full participation, elicit various perspectives and create focus, cooperation and direction. We focus on ways of supporting any group to come alive and reach surprising results that both include and move beyond the initial ideas of individuals or a group brainstorm have the best chance of being implemented post the meeting or workshop.

When a facilitated event works well, people truly change... they shift and see the world and each other differently. In this way, a facilitator helps a group to do their best thinking.

However at the risk of sounding pragmatic about facilitation - sometimes there are no wonderful epiphanies, no magic moments - some of the best value comes from a forum where the facilitator ensures the conversation amongst people is respectful, inclusive and focused.

IKD facilitation experience

We facilitated groups and challenges including:

• Senior executive strategic planning meetings
• Relationship building sessions between internal groups
• Department or business unit reviews
• Yearly planning meetings
• Off-site retreats