FACILITATION

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,
but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler

Facilitation

• a process enabling individuals, groups and organisations to understand their role (buy in) in a way that empowers them to take responsibility (ownership) for performance on three levels - individual, group & organisational levels.

Facilitators provide a process to address perceptions, attitudes, behaviours and assumptions within a business that are obstacles to progress and often hard to shift. Once shifted, the process should ensure participants do not return to previous comfort zones.

A facilitative approach works with individuals or groups to assist them to tackle significant issues and find solutions to their own opportunities or problems.

Facilitation

• makes it easier to make progress
• motivates the action required to achieve defined and agreed outcomes.
• achieves resolution by encouraging individuals and groups to `buy in’, reach an agreed conclusion, undertake informed decision making and take ownership of the outcome.
• leaves the individuals and groups involved with 100% ownership.
• instills in individuals and groups confidence in their ability to make significant and sustainable change.

As skilled facilitators, the Blue Chip Consulting Group enables client groups to:

• discover their own issues
• discover their own solutions
• take responsibility for essential actions and outcomes.

Participants comments about Blue Chip Consulting Group facilitation skills:

• "Excellent clarity and great ability to listen and respond."
• "Excellent. Everyone commented on the quality and direction."
• "Pointed you in the right direction in planning, what to look for, relationships and implementation."
• "Very good understanding of subject and communicated clearly."
• "Made me think about the issues rather than just listen."
• "Strategic emphasis helped me see things differently."
• "Challenged me in terms of my future career goals."
• "Encouraged interaction and discussion between the groups rather than to him."
  

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined.
No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunnelled.
No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick