WHAT IS GOOD FACILITATION?
Facilitation for Healthy Leadership, Management and Participation
What does “good facilitation” mean? What does “good facilitation” look like? Most of us have been involved in groups that are healthy and high performing… as well as those that are not. We have experienced the sense of achievement, shared purpose and personal satisfaction that good facilitation skills bring to groups and organisations (and the misery that can come with unresolved conflict and issues of power and politics).
We have extensive experience of working with groups of all kinds and training facilitators from all walks of life. You might be asking, “What is a facilitator?” or “What does a facilitator do?” Our work and our facilitator skills competency model, FACETS® provide for facilitation being a multi-dimensional activity and for the range of facilitation skills profiles that individual facilitators will have.
A manager keeping a newly-formed team on track will rely on a different skill set from an external consultant working with organisational culture change, and as facilitators, our priorities and preferences change throughout our lives.
To achieve excellence as a facilitator you need to continually adapt your facilitation so that it is appropriate to the aims, the needs, the level of experience, the duration and the context of the group. This is the essence of what makes a good facilitator.
Training with us is a chance to get beneath the surface of what good facilitation looks and feels like, and how you can develop the tools, techniques, and most importantly the confidence and personal awareness to support the aims of the groups that you work with.
If you’re curious about the role of a facilitator or want to explore what makes a good facilitator, we’re here to help – feel free to get in touch.
Your Facilitation Style
- can be described and developed in terms of various models and theories (dimensions, modes, interventions, strategies and approaches) and how these are put together in practice
- is also a result of the values and standards you hold, your psychological make-up, your degree of awareness, skill and developmental experience
- relates to the objectives and composition of the groups that you work with
- is part of the norms, values and belief systems expressed in your wider social and cultural context
Above all, your style is about who you are.
Facilitation for Healthy Leadership, Management and Participation
What does “good facilitation” mean? What does “good facilitation” look like? Most of us have been involved in groups that are healthy and high performing… as well as those that are not. We have experienced the sense of achievement, shared purpose and personal satisfaction that good facilitation skills bring to groups and organisations (and the misery that can come with unresolved conflict and issues of power and politics).
We have extensive experience of working with groups of all kinds and training facilitators from all walks of life. You might be asking, “What is a facilitator?” or “What does a facilitator do?” Our work and our facilitator skills competency model, FACETS® provide for facilitation being a multi-dimensional activity and for the range of facilitation skills profiles that individual facilitators will have.
A manager keeping a newly-formed team on track will rely on a different skill set from an external consultant working with organisational culture change, and as facilitators, our priorities and preferences change throughout our lives.
To achieve excellence as a facilitator you need to continually adapt your facilitation so that it is appropriate to the aims, the needs, the level of experience, the duration and the context of the group. This is the essence of what makes a good facilitator.
Training with us is a chance to get beneath the surface of what good facilitation looks and feels like, and how you can develop the tools, techniques, and most importantly the confidence and personal awareness to support the aims of the groups that you work with.
If you’re curious about the role of a facilitator or want to explore what makes a good facilitator, we’re here to help – feel free to get in touch.
Your Facilitation Style
- can be described and developed in terms of various models and theories (dimensions, modes, interventions, strategies and approaches) and how these are put together in practice
- is also a result of the values and standards you hold, your psychological make-up, your degree of awareness, skill and developmental experience
- relates to the objectives and composition of the groups that you work with
- is part of the norms, values and belief systems expressed in your wider social and cultural context
Above all, your style is about who you are.
The Competency Model
Our proprietary competency model, FACETS® describes six key areas that we consider to be central to both the skill level and character of practitioners: Facilitation, Awareness, Contracting, Ethics, Theory and Support. As well as forming the core of our assessment and accreditation methodologies, FACETS® also provides a framework for describing what facilitation means in practice.
