Facilitation
Facilitation comes from the Latin word for "easy" is facilis. My role, with your team is to make something easier, ensure your planning meeting is well designed, and engaging, your culture redesign workshop runs smoothly with meaningful outcomes or your management away day allows input from all stakeholders.
Bring a group of leaders together is expensive, having an external facilitator means you have both professional and creative design to your important events and you can focus on the content whilst I deliver the process making you and your team more effective, creative and outcome focused. Having me as your facilitator turns that expense into a wise investment for the future.
Previous and current clients have reported that Chris is a strong facilitator who helps define vision, challenges with genuine, potential barriers to delivery and supports the delivery of real plans and outcomes.
Chris is experienced in facilitating groups from 3 to 300 people.
Typical facilitation assignments include:
• Build alignment and collaboration across a diverse team
• Develop a new culture for your organisation
• Create a long term strategy for your team
• Team building and management away days
What people have said...
Chris has experience in the facilitation of business culture transformation which in South Africa requires the ability to understand many different cultural perspectives. He has the ability to tackle difficult conflictual behaviours within teams in a way that allows people to re construct difficult relationships.
He has also coached members of the Executive and Senior Leadership teams; his coaching style does not encourage dependent relationships but develops the capacity and confidence in the coachee to meet their own potential."
Fiona Fewell: Executive Director HR for Pearson South Africa
From the very start Chris used a great deal of thought and effort to understand our particular culture and personalities. Most impressive was the new model he created to perfectly represent the complex working relationships.
The Agenda he built, and shared beforehand, met our brief and was focussed towards achieving our objectives. With a hugely challenging 3 hour timescale for the meeting this was a skill in itself.
On the day he was well prepared and used a simple and effective ice breaker to get things moving. His expert facilitation allowed the conversation to flow and ensured the group remained focussed. When emotions were heating up he diffused the situation so deftly it went unnoticed and without any loss of momentum. Ultimately, he kept us together and lead us to our goals and with some clear realistic actions to take away.
Within a couple of days of the event we had received a write up with some added models and theories for us to work with. Had Chris not understood us and our needs so completely then we would have not moved forward afterwards. Instead, he left us with clear, simple and effective advice that we have been able to make excellent use of.
As a small organisation it was a big decision to seek external support, and even more so to put our trust in that person. Without question it was the right decision and we chose a highly skilled and extremely knowledgeable expert who I would not hesitate to work with again in the future.