Why Use Curious Facilitation?
In a nutshell - Quicker, faster, painless decisions
Occasionally, it may make sense for you to use a facilitator. Facilitators can save frustration, time, emotional energy and money. Below are a number of situations where not using a skilled facilitator can cause future complications:
- When your team is dysfunctional, yet the outcomes from the meeting are essential
- When you have highly complex issues on the table that need resolving and you have many differing viewpoints
- When decisions or team meetings are potentially emotive
- When power structures in the organisation can skew an important decision
- When you need to inject innovation, energy or creativity into your team
- When it’s essential for your whole team to buy in
How does the Process Work?
A Proven Process that makes it easy for you
We meet with you to understand your organisation and the deeper issues of the specific situation. We then design the facilitation process with you to ensure it gets the outcomes you want and that it is relevant, interactive and interesting. We run the session, enabling you to focus in on key discussions and nuances. We keep the content on track, challenging irrelevancies and ensuring progress towards the end outcome. If you want, we build in processes to broaden thinking, so that team members break out of their current paradigms. This enables them to be more aware of future possibilities in different ways. We skilfully address tough issues and negotiate differing opinions and values, keeping everyone safe whilst ensuring key points of view are fully explored. We ensure that in each step of the process, there is clarity and that each team member feels heard. Everyone is clear on the outcomes, the reasons for the outcomes and the next steps. This then increases the likelihood of trust and true engagement, resulting in better delivery and a better bottom line
The Benefits of having a Curious Learning Facilitator
- You often get to the end result much quicker, saving you time and therefore money.
- You save on frustration and needless emotional energy
- There is a sense of achievement and unity. Trust is increased
- It strengthens your team’s ability to work together because we make explicit how you work together, communicate and make decisions
- An increase in the confidence of the team to be able to get results in future tough situations
- It can inject innovation and creativity
- It broadens awareness of cultural aspects of the organisation, therefore increasing the chances of a strategy or initiative of working and saving / making money
- It gives insight into the potential value to customers / clients not yet realised and widens possibilities
- It leaves the leader and team members as stress free as possible