Examples of good facilitation
Facilitation of: A newly merged team
Change planning
Duration: 1 day
Number of delegates: 30
Workshop objectives:
To understand the wide range of skills that make up the new OD&C team
To create shared understanding of the drivers of the forthcoming merge of teams, in the context of DWP’s objectives
To create shared understanding about what we know about the merge of teams so far
To understand each others concerns
To understand how the concerns can be well addressed
To plan ‘what next’: what an optimal 6 month transition might look like
To understand requests and suggestions individuals have to make the change work well
To create clear individual actions that will support our teams own development and change
To use the meeting to harness learning and growth individually and for the team
They said:
"Having experienced Pro-Facilitation on a number of occasions I've found it to be an effective way to manage what have previously been long difficult meetings.
Pro-Facilitation ensures clarity of objectives and provides a meeting process that gives everyone involved in the meeting a 'voice'.
Coupled with this I have found Sean's professionalism and his commitment to bring learning into the meeting process gives people the opportunity to build stronger and more trustful working relationships"
Marina Bolton
Organisation Development
Department for Work and Pension
Facilitation of: A new board and its first meeting
Vision and strategy
Duration: 1 day
Number of delegates: 12
Workshop objective:
To agree a vision and strategy, and begin implementation of that strategy as the first step to achieving the desired vibrant future.
They said:
“Pro-Facilitation took a group of executives from diverse backgrounds many of whom had never met before and managed to meld them into a cohesive board within a few hours using the specially devised ProMeet system.
The resultant strategy will enable us to rapidly move forward within the business. I can highly recommend them to you.”
Brian Clivaz
Chief Executive
Arts Club
Pro-Facilitation: when your meeting is to important to be left to chance
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Facilitation of: A full company awayday
Business planning
Duration: 1 day
Number of delegates: 55
Workshop objective:
To enthuse all JGP staff about Who we are, what we uniquely do and where we are going.
They said:
“Working with Pro-Facilitation is a pleasure. For our company it has been invaluable in improving our internal communications and organisational culture.”
Angela Kennedy
Marketing Director
JGP
Facilitating important meetings, workshops and awaydays
Pro-Facilitation has has experience in running almost every type of meeting, workshop or awayday.
From half a dozen people in a vital half day meeting to hundreds of staff or customers working together to plan, create or start an important project.
Here are eight different examples where Pro-Facilitation has helped people make best use of their time and achieve the results the needed.
Facilitation of: A great big fellows meeting
Stakeholder meeting
Duration: 1 day
Number of delegates: 260
Workshop objective:
To begin a new kind of RSA fellowship engagement: RSA networks, and to discover what they might do and how they might work.
They said:
“Sean’s help preparing the day and running it was invaluable.”
Matthew Taylor
Chief Executive
Royal Society of Arts
Facilitation of: A European working group
Business development planning
Duration: 1 day
Number of delegates: 7
Workshop objective:
To create a development plan for Internet/Extranet and Intranet that harnesses synergies and clarifies differences from the perspectives of user needs and business needs.
They said:
“The Pro-Facilitation team were able to successfully plan and deliver against our desired outcomes in a workshop that had technical, cultural and subject matter complexities built in (including video-conferencing).
The process they brought to the meeting was able to be adapted to fit our needs and the facilitation was both focussed and flexible."
Graham Honeywill
Head of Online Marketing & Tools
Nokia Siemens Networks
Facilitation of: 9 workshops: Head Teachers innovating Next Practice
Creative idea generation
Number of sessions: 9 workshops over 2 years
Duration: 1 and 2 day
Number of delegates: 40-110
Workshop objective:
To create ‘Next Practice’ (innovative way of organising arrangements in schools) in school leadership, curriculum development, and community engagement.
They said:
“This system provided the best structure for our off site meetings that I have ever seen.”
“The process clarity of Pro-Facilitation means time spent working together is more creative and more productive.”
Valerie Hannon and Mike Gibbons
Director
Innovation Unit
Facilitation of: The most senior University staff developing a University wide strategy
Strategy Development
Duration: 2 day
Number of delegates: 34
Workshop objectives:
To agree the information strategy in outline
To identify and plan priorities of the strategy
To identify key relationships and dependencies and agree how to deal with them
They said:
“This is a new and invigorating way of quickly progressing strategically vital projects. It had a real impact on the results we quickly created. ProMeet is rewarding and productive.”
Nick Atkins
Director of IT Services
University of the Arts London
We facilitate all of kinds of meetings, workshops and awaydays
Facilitation of: An HR planning meeting
Change Planning
Duration: 4 hours
Number of delegates: 20
Workshop objective:
To clearly define an emerging plan for HR to support the Performance and Efficiency Programme (PEP)
They said:
“This style of meeting simplifies the complex visually and with buy in of participants. The pre and post workshop support was excellent.”
Paul Serrell-Cooke
HR PEP Change Team
Ministry of Justice
