Sometimes you just need someone to facilitate your event.
A facilitator can help any meeting run more smoothly. Having someone else to help guide and manage group discussions and activities to achieve specific goals or outcomes is invaluable. And having someone who will be neutral and impartial during any discussions whilst encouraging the participants to contribute and ensuring everyone is heard is invaluable.
Facilitators typically have a number of skills to help them, in my case I am an accredited business coach, a mentor and a trainer. I also have a background in multi-national industrial companies as a control engineer, in sales, management, and marketing. All of these skills help me to perform as a facilitator for many types of meetings.
And although a facilitator is neutral in discussions they will guide the whole team through a process to ensure an outcome is achieved.
So if you want a result from any meeting then lets have a chat about how I can help
What can we facilitate?
Building a strategy – we have helped large and small companies set goals and then build the strategies and action steps needed to achieve those goals. Being able to work with your team instead of lead them through a process of setting and building a strategy is invaluable and helps you truly be part of future planning for your organisations, company or department.
Recent examples include:
A UK subsidiary of a global industrial organisation asked me to take the topics they had identified as key for achieving their 5 year goals and running an event where the key drivers for those topics came together, set goals for each topic and then put a strategy in place with defined actions and goals together. And then to meet with them quarterly to review progress. Yes the MD could have done this himself but a) he wanted to be part of the conversation and b) having an external facilitator running the event meant that the importance of this strategy was underlined and was distinct from business as usual
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An industry body wanted to run a strategy review event for its members. The team who worked for the body wanted to be part of the team, so they asked me to come and facilitate the day and then to work with them afterwards to identify a number of key strategies to take forward. We worked together to put an agenda together and the day was a great success with new elements introduced to ensure that all members had their say about their key interest.
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A large charity wanted to run a day where they looked to the future – looking at new trends and seeking to understand what direction the charity should move into the future. We set an agenda and ran a successful brainstorming day resulting in a clear direction and action points to move forward.
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Let us help you with your next event
Let’s have a chat and see what we can help you with. And if you need references or to speak to someone who we have already worked with we can provide that too.