Our offerings for other sectors comprise both Facilitations and Learning Events, both of which are designed according to client need.
Facilitations
Facilitations are bespoke thinking structures to meet desired outcomes where there is a specific question, challenge or problem situation as the central issue. Below is a sample from a range of such ‘facilitated outcomes’ where we have designed and managed an intentional thinking process to harness the collective expertise of delegates.
Facilitations for Other Sectors
Services include facilitated events for the outcomes sought, examples are:
funding strategy
Advancing a team’s shared understanding of where they are and where they want to be, and enabling the design of a winning programme of events and activities to raise the organisation’s profile to potential funders.
leadership and values
Building understanding of the human factors which impact how people and teams from diverse disciplines operate; strategies for leaders to put this knowledge into practice, championing the organisation’s values.
information management
Facilitating a workshop at annual conference for a national institution for members to address and set the direction for information and data capture needs.
plans for action
Co-facilitating an inaugural national members council of over 50 delegates to collectively design and agree group and individual plans of action for the next three years.
vision planning
Idea generation and strategy of action for an Arts Festival Board working with a regional programming advisory board to deliver a biennial photographic festival operating as a cultural exchange.
successful collaborations
Providing insights and tools for collaborative working alongside the simulation of a dry-run project to pave the way for creative professionals to deliver group projects for a major exhibition the following year.
Replicating best practice
Developing and assessing proposals to replicate best practice for a regional healthcare programme with visible impact to be demonstrated within six months.
public engagement
Guiding a Team to run sessions to come up with a programme of new ideas for public engagement actitivies for children to learn about medical imaging techniques.
Learning Events
Here are example topics we have designed which deliver learning for other sectors:
- Thinking as a Skill – Techiques from our toolbox to build thinking capacity and how to apply it.
- Taking Ownership – Developing proactive skills for managers to encourage their teams to take full ownership of projects.
- People and Collaboration – Learning about people and personality: the ways in which they are different, the same, and how to work with that.
- Developing Personal Effectiveness – Frameworks to manage workload and information in complex situations.
- Conflict Resolution – Insights and methods to handle conflict.
- Creative Leadership – Working with creative tools for managing and leading.
- Innovation – De-constructing your organisation’s model and designing creative moves to innovate.
- Decision Making – Processes and tools to aid problem solving and decision making.
- Advanced Management – Providing elements of an advanced management course covering specific topics.
Both Learning Events and Facilitations can be delivered in different engagement formats. See Who we do it for – Other Sectors, for more information, and how people responded to what we delivered for them.
strengths
Identify and build on strengths, using them as an anchor from which to explore further.
new ideas
Ignite the fire of creative ideas and let them give out heat before extinguishing those that don’t serve you.
narrative
Communication involves interpretation and selection: create the narrative you wish to be understood by.
