When a team or group of peers need to achieve something together, investing in a facilitator for an away day, meeting or development session can be a worthwhile investment.
Rather than relying on top-down instruction, it gives each individual and opportunity to share their own ideas and solutions to business opportunities and challenges.
Through carefully designed activities and curious questioning, your team is encouraged to reflect, work together and take ownership of outcomes.
Choose a coaching approach to facilitation if you are looking to:
- Create clarity, align and enrol people in your vision
- Build trust and improve working relationships
- Balance a group dynamic and hear contributions from everyone
- Bring to the surface the real barriers and challenges to progress
- Generate creative and innovative ideas
- Encourage collaborative decision-making
- Commit to action and hold accountability
Why Denise?
Denise is an experienced facilitator with over 20 years of experience working with teams and groups in person and virtually. Her coaching approach to facilitation encourages new ways of thinking, creativity and invites individuals to view situations from different perspectives.
She is skilled at creating a safe environment that encourages contribution, focuses on the intended outcomes and can expertly read and manage group dynamics.
- Gently challenges thinking, beliefs and assumptions, opening eyes and revealing blind spots
- Helps generate quality conversations that keep the conversation going rather than closing it down
- Uses different techniques to appeal to people’s different preferences allowing for inclusivity
- Creates a space for people to say the things they’ve not been able to say
- Most importantly, she encourages action
What happens next
After an initial enquiry, Denise will speak in depth with you – taking the time to thoroughly understand your desired goals and objectives for the away day, meeting or development day, and to gain insight into the people who will be attending. She will ask you to determine what success looks like for the session and what the difference is you want to make. She will then submit her proposal with a framework and costs and give you the opportunity to contribute to the structure and content.
Before the session, Denise will send out a welcome email inviting those attending to reflect on some questions. From experience this helps gain buy in, and allows people to get clear about what they want from the time together.
After the session, Denise will meet with you to evaluate the session and discuss any feedback.
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