Facilitation
How to achieve lasting results in groups!
How much time do you spend in meetings? You are not alone if half your working life is spent in meetings, for some people it may be even more. We often find ourselves bored with the content, frustrated with other participants, and stressed at the mounting pile of things to do that make up the real job.
We all have incredible minds and bodies built for movement, creativity, emotional engagement and fun. It should be no wonder that passively staring at a Power Point presentation or bullet lists on a flip chart are unproductive.
Solving problems, building teams, achieving results and learning are so much faster when we enjoy what we do and have fun! Use a facilitator to increase the effectiveness of working together and have fun. A facilitator is an expert in the process of working together. Allow the facilitator to take the strain of planning, engaging and recording, while you get on with the business of doing your job. The more productive your meetings are, the fewer you will need and the more time you have to achieve in other areas.
Facilitation brings life, energy and commitment to your meetings and conferences, adding structure and purpose, stimulating creativity and capturing robust, relevant content in a memorable way. When combined with accelerated learning techniques like Graphic Facilitation, energisers and games it stimulates whole-brain-thinking and brings out the knowledge and ideas that are often so deeply embedded in our minds we don’t even know it’s there.
Graphic facilitation enables us to see the big picture, organise and develop ideas, solve problems and highlight key themes and patterns. By designing participative templates everyone can co-create the output. Graphic facilitation maximizes participation and learning, creating group memories and gives life to ideas and concepts that ordinarily can get lost in scribbled notes on the back of an agenda.
Have fun and get commitment
- Engagement and participation from all
- Clear Thinking and shared understanding
Knowledge sharing and innovation
- Optimise Learning
- Increase memory retention by 40%
- Group Memory
- Visual Overview at a glance
- Enhances Creativity by seeing things in new ways
- Group is Focused with clear objectives
- Commitment to action
The bottom line of facilitation is commitment
Mayfield Associate facilitators are experts in design and facilitation of all kinds of interactive sessions including vision development, decision-making, strategic planning, innovation sessions, conferences, board meetings, training, brainstorming, team building, and town hall style meetings.
A facilitator is an expert in the process of working together to
achieve commitment and results
“Motivating, stimulating, helpful, participative and valuable. We need to do more of this sort of work.”
John, a senior civil servant
“We’ve all flown 1000s of miles from different parts of the world to spend a week getting frustrated and bored. While back at home the work mounts up and the customers get impatient. But, what a refreshing change, and it really does work!”
Dan, a senior manager from Houston Texas
“I really love the Rich Pictures! It’s amazing how quickly and effectively a picture can capture and communicate the situation and stimulate discussion.”
Indy, a strategist at the RAC
“It was when I saw the picture, it all fell into place.”
Don, European Director an international service organisation
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This is such an effective way of working, why not find out how you too can learn how to use graphic facilitation to bring your meetings to life on our 1-day course, Graphic Facilitation Made Easy
