Facilitation - Unlocking the Hearts and Minds of your Team
Often when teams meet there is too much said…
and yet not enough!
We’ve all sat through those meetings hoping to get resolution or get our team back on track. Instead of solutions we find the loud people get louder and the quiet people get quieter. It’s like the harder the team tries the worse it gets.
You need a facilitator.
Seachange Now facilitators, are highly trained and skilled in helping the team to create an open environment conducive to team success. Your facilitator will help to create an environment defined by -
- Psychological safety - the knowledge that you can speak freely without reprisal
- Respect - every person’s view matters and dignity is upheld at all times
- Challenge and build - we can be critical but must also be solution orientated
- Feedback and Feedforward - we give the historical view and the future desired position
- Begin with the end in mind - everything we do works to a shared team vision for success
Bringing in a facilitator also allows the leader or chairperson to fully participate in the session rather than having to run it. By using an external facilitator with no ‘agenda’ the participants can feel at ease that objectivity runs through the process.
Think about it like a turbo charge for your team. The energy and knowledge your Seachange Now facilitator will bring opens the team up to possibility and transformation.
Typically, the types of situations that benefit from a facilitator are -
- Conflict resolution
- Building team vision and values
- Facilitating feedback to each other
- Deep diving and exploring research, especially engagement scores
- Strategy development when it’s important that all voices are heard
- Energising the team when flat
- Refocusing on key priorities
Frameworks
To make it even easier - we present a number of frameworks to allow really powerful and committed conversations to take place. These can include -
- The 5 States of Team Success Framework
- OWA - Outcome, Why, Action
- One Page business plan - Vision, Values, Key Objectives
We’ve run hundreds of offsite, onsite and virtual facilitated team sessions. We are based in Dublin, Ireland but can facilitate anywhere in the world.
Book in with us today to make your next team session a great success.
"You helped us get under the skin of what we need to do as a team, how we view ourselves within the company and how we can build ourselves as a high performing team"
- Sinead McAleese, DIAGEO, European Marketing Director, Whiskey & Reserves Europe.
Three Top Tips for your next Team Meeting
- Contract around what behaviours you would like to see in your meeting.
- Start with something positive - a win that each person had in the last week.
- Begin with the end in mind - what do you all want by the end of the meeting?
Book in with us today to make your next team session a great success.
"You helped us get under the skin of what we need to do as a team, how we view ourselves within the company and how we can build ourselves as a high performing team" - Sinead McAleese, European Marketing Director, Whiskey & Reserves Europe, DIAGEO
