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Facilitating

Making it easy for groups to reach their goals

Team-work, meetings and collaboration are the key elements of organisational life. However, it’s not unusual for teams to have difficulty achieving its goals because of conflicts, uneven contribution or lack of clarity on the best way ahead.

What is facilitation?

Facilitation comes from the Latin word facilis or facile which means “to make it easy”. Whether it’s helping teams develop a strategy, plan change, improve processes or simply to reflect on how the team works together, Lorensbergs can literally ‘make it easy’ for the group to move on.

Professional facilitation can create incisive decisions that the full group can support in a spirit of mutual respect. It can also encourage groups increase its level of transparency and willingness to discuss the “undiscussable”.

Our consultants have 15+ years experience in facilitating groups from front line teams to executive groups, from small groups to large conferences with hundreds of participants. We combine our a thorough grounding in human psychology and a range of facilitation tools and techniques for productive workshops, meetings and gatherings including:

  • Appreciative inquiry
  • Open space technology
  • Solutions focus
  • Problem solving tools
  • Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques
    We are also members of the International Association of Facilitators with some of our consultants accredited as Certified Professional Facilitators (CPF).

Offering our facilitation expertise

It’s often appropriate for an organisation to use an external facilitator who can stay independent of the task and be completely focused on the process. The first step is to meet with the client to understand their real needs and outcomes and then follow that up with a proposed design. What’s important to us is that this is done as a transparent partnership.

Training your own facilitators

Having the this powerful capability has been of immense benefit to our clients…especially in giving a real boost to change programmes. Our facilitator training programmes have been attended by those who have gone on to become accredited by the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) as well. We offer development in

  • Skilled facilitation
  • Advanced facilitation
  • Facilitation for Lean/6 Sigma professionals
  • Facilitation masterclasses leading to IAF assessment
  • Facilitating virtual meetings

IAF Several of Lorensbergs consultants are Certified Professional Facilitators (CPF's) accredited by the IAF.