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Facilitation
Strategy
Implementation
Kick-off meetings &
retreats
Cultural and goal
alignment
Innovation,
Improvement & sustainability
Recognition, new
leaf and closure ceremonial events
Project Meetings
When to
use a Facilitator
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Conferences;
Mergers & Acquisitions; Restructures& Relocations; Team
Building; Kick-off Meetings; Strategic Change; Reorganisation;
Cultural Evolution; Knowledge sharing; Problem solving;
Workshops; Whole company meetings; Market research; Strategic
planning; Interactive MC
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Kick-off sales and
marketing conferences that provide a unique and memorable
experience for participants
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Meetings that set
strategy, align culture, put plans into action and sustain
change.
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Innovation programs
that stimulate cross function communication and knowledge
sharing.
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Scalable meetings
from a few to many hundreds using a consistent set of tools
and processes.
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Extraordinary
teambuilding activities, either indoor or outdoor using the
latest self organising technologies.
Achievement of maximum results in minimum time.
What if
your lowest paid employee has within them the idea that will
grow and sustain your business for a lifetime? How would you
know? How will you find out?
Everything you need for a lifetime of success in business and
life is already available either within you and within your
reach - you just don't know it yet. That you or your lowest paid
employee, have the seeds to next big idea or a solution to that
problem is not as crazy as it sounds.
Whilst
strategy and direction come from the hierarchy, innovative ideas
and solutions are available everywhere. By aligning formal
structures with and informal networks you'll be able to solve
problems and apply strategy with unexpected ease.
We will
change your world by helping you tap into the inner resources of
you and your team. Our role is to help you facilitate business
growth, performance improvement, strategy & innovation,
sustainable change and corporate & personal healing. You will
benefit from improved sales and profits, continuous innovation,
clear strategy, increased energy, full buy-in to change, reduced
fear and elimination of blame.
Opportunities:
Bust silos and
bureaucracy to enable the free flow of information and
knowledge sharing to stimulate innovation.
Reconnect with
corporate values that may have been diminished through past
excesses and poor leadership options.
Rekindle leaders,
employees, directors and stakeholders belief in themselves.
Assist leaders
struggling with siege mentality generated by decades of blame,
change fatigue and resistance to new initiatives.
Improve corporate
fitness through faster and more effective problem diagnosis
and decision making
Facilitate
effective, energising meetings, conferences and workshops that
continually rebuild culture and fully engage participants.
Strategic Change
Businesses are continually evolving in order to survive and
prosper. The creation of a strategy is increasingly an evolving
process rather than a fixed project. Such a process needs to
engage larger numbers of people in the organisation to ensure
that all relevant facts are considered and that optimal
solutions are created. Such wider participation also ensures
greater degrees of ownership and understanding to enable
successful change.
Opportunities:
Business team
planning events; Strategic business meetings; Sales conferences
and sales management events; Top-team reviews and ad-hoc issues
resolution sessions; Cross function meetings; Whole company
planning meetings
Reorganisation
A
frequent response in trying to bring about better performance is
to restructure or establish new functions. The key issues are to
establish some rapport within the group of people, to understand
each others' roles and how they can work together. Inevitably,
it takes time to establish a fully performing team but the
process can be accelerated by an early workshop to create a more
effective team.
Opportunities::
Functional start-ups
and role changes; Mergers and acquisitions; Integration of
business teams and functions into larger businesses
Knowledge sharing
Most of
the required knowledge lies within the organisation but can be
readily supplemented with small amounts of expert knowledge.
Hence we have helped clients by designing and facilitating
workshops which use internal expert presenters for disseminating
requisite knowledge to a wider audience. Content experts have
been included as appropriate.
Examples
of such workshops are:
Innovation programs; Cross function communications; Silo
busting; Leadership development
Cultural Evolution
People
in organisations often behave in similar ways because they share
the same values and beliefs (at least to some extent). This
enables more efficient communication and working. Hence the
interest in 'changing the culture'. However cultures evolve over
many years and are unlikely to be changed overnight other than
by radical management overhaul and even then culture can endure.
Even with this proviso, culture is an important and pervasive
issue which needs to addressed.
Opportunities:
Integrating
businesses with very different histories; Creating customer
focus; Building common vision; Creating networks and team
working
Corporate Healing:
As
corporate healers we provide essential therapy to businesses
traumatized by mergers, acquisitions, restructures, market
shake-outs, extended below par performance or leadership change.
Our
methods help eliminate ingrained fearful, negative and self
limiting cultures that lead to high levels of staff turnover,
stress and sick leave and missing performance targets.
Opportunities:
Developing leadership
skills, stimulating cross functional knowledge sharing and
communication, team reconstruction, whole business involvement
in strategy planning, self coaching systems for all employees,
stimulating creativity and innovation and above all having fun
at work.
Meetings:
The
business case for better meetings is clear. Terrible meetings
seriously impact business performance. The opportunity time lost
in appalling meetings is irrecoverable. The ROI on the massive
time invested in dreadful meetings cannot be justified.
The
seven sins of deadly meetings
as
published in Fast Company Magazine April/May 1996 include:
People don't take
meetings seriously
Meetings are too
long
People wander off
the topic
Nothing happens
after the meeting - no action
People don't tell
the truth
People aren't
prepared for meetings -critical data missing
Meetings never seem
to improve
Underlying Principles
Group facilitation
skills and tools are more valuable to effective leadership
outcomes than presenting and influencing.
Poorly conducted
meetings will undo every positive strategic, cultural and
innovation initiative
Well conducted
meetings significantly increase employee engagement and buy-in
Creativity and
Innovation:
Steps towards
innovation
Understand the
nature of creativity
Develop
creativity across the business
Eliminate
barriers to creativity
Transform
creativity into innovation
Turn innovation
into sustainable strategic competitive advantage
Silo
Busting
What
could be achieved if innovation and performance were seamlessly
integrated?
The
organisational structure providing the highest energy merges the
informal network that drives innovation with the formal
structures that drive performance. The result is a fast flowing,
errorless processes that deliver outputs seamlessly to customers
whilst achieving mutually shared objectives.
Yet this
vision is only rarely attained due to ÔsilosÕ that create
barriers between teams. Silos undermine the effectiveness of the
organisation, drain energy, slow responsiveness times, limit
innovation and create political cultures focused more on
internal issues than delivering products and services to
customers.
Opportunities:
Drive change and
innovation.
"Silo Busting" is
about breaking down the debilitating silo walls.
Common-sense tools
and processes that can be used for immediate impact and which
enable more effective integrated communication and cross team
collaboration.
Silo Busting tools
can be quickly learned and used by leaders and change agents
within organisations so that new practices can become self
sustaining.
Stakeholder Engagement
How much
more could be achieved if everyone were fully engaged in the
change process?
Engaging
employees, suppliers, customers is becoming harder and harder.
Big table meetings, PowerPoint presentations are now old hat and
'talking to" people can be a waste of time. Cutting up the
boardroom table into small pieces is recommended.
People
are best engaged in a small table meeting, like a cafe. As soon
as more than six people sit around a big table, the dynamic
changes significantly. The big table power power play reduces
the effectiveness of that meeting and buy-in from the
participants.
Opportunities:
Learn "small table"
techniques that will reduce the time spent on meetings whilst
significantly increasing the potential for better, more informed
decisions.
Mentoring
Strategy
Change
Facilitation
Leadership
Mediation
Group problem solving
Business and
community Mediation
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