Facilitation
Sue Froggatt Training & Consultancy
The majority of membership associations are involved in running meetings with members, volunteers, staff, sponsors and other stakeholders.
If you have an important meeting coming up, with people from a wide variety of backgrounds, with different understandings, interests, objectives, motifs, vulnerabilities and positions, it might be prudent to consider investing in having an external facilitator to keep the meeting productive and on track.
Facilitated meetings will help you to support a group to tackle issues quicker and with greater ease and success because they are more focused. A facilitator will also lead the event, so everyone else is free to participate.
An impartial facilitator will assist by:
Guiding the flow of discussion to ensure balance and focus
Giving meetings more clarity
Helping participants clarify goals and reach a common understanding of the issues involved
Guiding the group through creative processes like brainstorming to develop new perspectives
Understanding the ‘group dynamics’ so that different perspectives can be better incorporated and meetings are not dominated by individuals or sub-groups
Improving the quality of group teamwork
Motivating the group and bring inspiration by using active engagement to makethe process more dynamic
Helping contributions and solutions to be logically evaluated, which will help with transparency issues
Guiding the flow of discussion to ensure balance and focus
Helping the group achieve its goals
Developing group ownership and commitment to agreed action plans
Helping the group to resolve conflict and dissent
Creating a more responsive organisational structure.
Helping people tackle some of the tougher issues and problems
Creating a safe structure for the group to work
Improving the chance of success because solutions will have wider buy-in
Helping the group review its performance
How does it work?
Helping the group achieve its goals
Developing group ownership and commitment to agreed action plans
Helping the group to resolve conflict and dissent
Creating a more responsive organisational structure.
Helping people tackle some of the tougher issues and problems
Creating a safe structure for the group to work
Improving the chance of success because solutions will have wider buy-in
Helping the group review its performance
What is the role of the facilitator?
Guiding the flow of discussion to ensure balance and focus
Giving meetings more clarity
Helping participants clarify goals and reach a common understanding of the issues involved
Guiding the group through creative processes like brainstorming to develop new perspectives
Understanding the ‘group dynamics’ so that different perspectives can be better incorporated and meetings are not dominated by individuals or sub-groups
Improving the quality of group teamwork
Motivating the group and bring inspiration by using active engagement to makethe process more dynamic
Helping contributions and solutions to be logically evaluated, which will help with transparency issues
Why Sue Froggatt?
Sue specialises in working with and understanding the unique needs of membership associations and communities. She has worked with many people at all levels within associations.
Past membership association meeting facilitation clients include: