Facilitator Cadre Development

Some of our clients want to create or strengthen an internal group that delivers facilitation services within their organization. They want their facilitator cadre to become a powerful agent for positive change in their organization – change that executives and other key stakeholders value.

Does this sound like you and your organization? If so, here's how we'd help you get there:

The Skilled Facilitator Workshop
This four-day experience offers you and your facilitator colleagues a detailed, comprehensive approach to increasing your effectiveness. It gives you intensive, supervised practice, so that you leave the workshop able to help your clients interact much more effectively – particularly in situations that are high-stakes, potentially embarrassing, threatening or otherwise emotionally difficult.

Generally, we suggest your internal facilitators attend the workshop as a group, so that they can get real work done while learning a new approach to facilitation. We prepare your internal facilitators to be effective advocates for change toward the end of the workshop, and give them materials and information to support them in introducing this new approach to facilitation and change to your organization. For a complete description of this workshop, click here.

Developmental Facilitation
To increase your facilitators' effectiveness even more quickly, and to help them address challenging issues, you may rely on us to:

• Help your facilitators have effective conversations about their work, and
• Develop your facilitators' capacity to work effectively together as a team
  …all while helping them achieve their performance goals. These developmental sessions will reinforce their learning from the Skilled Facilitator workshop. We would schedule the sessions on an as-needed basis as issues come up, and we'd join your regular meetings to work with the team as well. Click here to learn more about what this work looks like.
   

Coaching
Typically, you'll find that you or your facilitators want customized, timely help with a particular issue or opportunity. You'll also want this help to be given consistently with the Skilled Facilitator approach that you've adopted. That's where we come in. We help you and your colleagues address your new facilitation challenges more quickly and effectively than you would have on your own, saving you, your colleagues, and your organization precious time and resources. As we coach you, we help you become more effective, so you need coaching less and less over time. For a more complete description of our Coaching capability, please click here.

Train the Trainer
If your organization is large, and you want to achieve change quickly, we often suggest that you build your cadre's ability to deliver our training, facilitate leadership groups, and offer coaching services. For a detailed description of what this work looks like, click here.

If you have additional questions about our Facilitator Cadre Development offering, or think it might be right for you and your organization, please contact us.