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
“You need to make a difficult decision; emotions are high; issues are complex. You have to tread carefully; opinions might be polarised or worse still, team members could get hurt. You are not confident that team members will buy in of their own free will. This might then lead to poor delivery costing both time and money. How do you solve this problem?”
“You’ve left another team meeting frustrated that you have just wasted a good chunk of your precious time. You never got to make those crucial decisions you needed to make; conversations kept going in different directions or equally as annoying, round and round in circles. You could see from people’s body language that team members are discontented. Others are just switched off. Trust in the team’s ability to work well is being eroded. How do you stop this from happening?”