What is Facilitation and why is it important?
You may not know it, but facilitation techniques are in use around you everyday – in successful business leadership, project management, change and people management, emotional intelligence, development, training and even your personal life.
When you know what you're looking for you can spot one or more of the vital facilitation techniques in use in successful businesses, projects and meetings.
What is facilitation?
Facilitation is an essential skill and set of tools that can be used in all aspects of our working practices – improved people dynamics, buy-in and decision making, communication and engagement as well as effective and productive meetings, projects and programmes.
To put this into practice try asking yourself the following four questions
- Do you sometimes struggle to react to unexpected challenges emerging within work, meetings, training sessions or projects?
- Have you ever been asked to "facilitate" meetings, training, orchange sessions when you don't really understand what facilitation is, or appreciate the impact it can have?
- Do you ever feel like your interactions are out of control, losing direction, or not as productive as they could be?
- Are you sometimes a bit intimidated by your audience and worried about not having all the answers?
If the answer is yes to any or all of the above then facilitation will be a big benefit to you and your business.
Why is facilitation important?
Having a set of facilitation tools to draw on puts you and your business in the best position to handle change, create great workplace dynamics and keep projects on track. Facilitation allows you insights and tactics to adapt to different working & communication styles, to identify personality types and adapt communication. You have the tools you need to become confident understanding people and group dynamics and adapting to get the results needed.
What's more, it is not theory from a business textbook but real world and pragmatic practice that has been measured by businesses to get the results.
Get in touch with the team here at Fearless Facilitation to find out more about the award-winning model that is getting results for businesses and the 1-day masterclass that is getting rave reviews and fans across the UK.
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