Group Facilitation
Generates extraordinary ideas and excellent results
from your team meetings or offsite, with ease and in record time
I invite you to contact me to discuss your facilitation requirements.
I invite you to contact me to discuss your facilitation requirements.
In meetings where people truly appreciate each other’s thinking, and therefore truly listen, strategies are better formed, goals are better achieved, budgets are better set, products and services are better delivered. Things like respect, inspiration, innovation, engagement, inclusiveness, trust, are given a real chance.
As a Time To Think Facilitator, I produce this quality of thinking and decision making in your group. I provide the Ten Components of a Thinking Environment together with your team so that everyone in the group can do excellent thinking independently and together.
Together, we create a Thinking Environment where everyone has an equal say, is heard and respected, and feels safe. How would that be?
Nancy Kline has developed several applications that meet the 10 components and encourage people to deepen their thinking and share their best ideas. The applications are Thinking Pairs, Dialogue, Round, Open Discussion, the Time to Think Council, Presentations and Thinking Partnership. These applications can be used individually or in combination during a meeting and will be facilitated by me.
Two people form a group and take turns thinking deeply and listening intently to the other. Each person chooses their own topic that they want to think about. This can be anything.
Two people form a group together thinking about the same question with short, frequent turns back and forth.
Systematic uninterrupted rounds to hear everyone’s opinions and ideas, also of the quiet people.
Everyone can speak, with no particular order. No one “chases” the speaker. No one interrupts the speaker. The speaker keeps his promise to be brief.
The presenter authentically connects with the audience and then addresses the question he or she will answer with the presentation. The audience is then asked for their opinion on the same topic/question. So both are listeners and thinkers.
If there is a dilemma or problem that needs to be solved, it can be formulated into a question and presented to colleagues. Everyone speaks from their own experience and shares their ideas that come to mind. This gives you access to the wisdom of your colleagues.
A sequence of questions that produces the most independent thinking in one person. The thinker chooses the topic he or she wants to think about. This is a one-on-one session with me. I am the listener.
Multiple different applications mentioned above can be used during this meeting. Strategies are better formed, goals are better achieved, budgets are better set, and products and services are better delivered.
Depending on the desired outcome you wish to achieve per agenda item or during your meeting, I, as facilitator, suggest the appropriate application. The outcome may be:
As a facilitator, I help you set the agenda in advance. We formulate each agenda item into an open-ended question, which prompts the brains of the invitees to think deeply beforehand and during the meeting.
I invite you to contact me to discuss your facilitation requirements and for me to understand your business context and what you want to accomplish for the day or during the meeting.