Workshop Facilitation
We offer custom designed and facilitated programs (half day & full day) to enable leaders and their teams to work through issues and challenges in a safe and supportive process that leads to greater insights and skills.
Our methodology is based on a blend of action learning combined with key insights from Conversational Intelligence®, emotional intelligence, change and contemporary neuroscience research.
The action learning process of Engage – Practice – Reflect provides the overarching structure for workshops and provides the structure for individual activities within the overall process. Each phase of the process has a specific purpose and is part of an iterative process that builds momentum.
We work with you to design and facilitate a workshop that specifically meets your needs. We use a wide range of facilitation methods and techniques to achieve the agreed outcome. Typically the types of workshops we design and facilitate include: focus groups, project reviews; team development, change support workshops, and training and development activities.
The action learning process of Engage – Practice – Reflect provides the overarching structure for workshops and provides the structure for individual activities within the overall process. Each phase of the process has a specific purpose and is part of an iterative process that builds momentum.
We work with you to design and facilitate a workshop that specifically meets your needs. We use a wide range of facilitation methods and techniques to achieve the agreed outcome. Typically the types of workshops we design and facilitate include: focus groups, project reviews; team development, change support workshops, and training and development activities.
“Making space to act and think is another key to whether an organisation
has the capacity to learn or change".
- Watkins and Marsick
has the capacity to learn or change".
- Watkins and Marsick
Past projects have included
Design and facilitate workshops to debrief on corporate projects with senior project teams - Government Owned Corporation (workforce of approximately 1,200).
Design and facilitate a workshop to build capacity in how change is approached for senior nurses - University Hospital.
Design and facilitate staff focus groups in responding to Employee Survey (for staff retention, communication, managing change) – Queensland Government Agency (workforce of approximately 10,000).
Design and facilitate focus groups and workshops to communicate the results of Staff Survey and to develop local action plans - Large Not for Profit (workforce of approximately 9,000).
Customer service training session for casual library staff – Local Government Agency Queensland (workforce of approximately 3,000).
Design and facilitate coach refresher training for the internal coaches - Local Government Agency Queensland (workforce of approximately 8,000).
Design and facilitate a series of sessions to prepare manager and team leaders for change – Local Government Agency Queensland (workforce of approximately 8,000).
Design and facilitate a workshop to build capacity in how change is approached for senior nurses - University Hospital.
Design and facilitate staff focus groups in responding to Employee Survey (for staff retention, communication, managing change) – Queensland Government Agency (workforce of approximately 10,000).
Design and facilitate focus groups and workshops to communicate the results of Staff Survey and to develop local action plans - Large Not for Profit (workforce of approximately 9,000).
Customer service training session for casual library staff – Local Government Agency Queensland (workforce of approximately 3,000).
Design and facilitate coach refresher training for the internal coaches - Local Government Agency Queensland (workforce of approximately 8,000).
Design and facilitate a series of sessions to prepare manager and team leaders for change – Local Government Agency Queensland (workforce of approximately 8,000).
Examples of feedback from our workshops
- “Yesterday’s team development workshop and the opportunity to have open discussion and learn other points of view allowed us to have discussions that were long overdue".
- “The workshops have been very helpful particularly the activities that I have been able to take back and use in the business to get real follow through on. It has helped me to establish a proactive approach”.
- “I found the collaborative group approach valuable. It took me a bit out of my comfort zone (being an introverted personality) but in the end this has helped me to build familiarity and rapport with the other participants and then to speak up”.
- “The workshops have been a positive mechanism for team leaders to share fears and support each other and to establish action plans that they take seriously”.
- “The change workshops have been positive and enjoyable. They have helped to put “change leadership” and my team's overall well-being at the forefront of my mind”.
- “Thank you, the workshop session has been very useful and has got me thinking about matters I have been neglecting”.
- “The facilitation was good and I found the session very useful”.
- “It has helped put change leadership at the forefront of my mind and to focus on my team's overall wellbeing through the change process”.
- “This has been a great opportunity to make us stop, think and appreciate our current situation. I have found it positive and insightful”.
- “One week back and so far the team is communicating more with each other. Even our Manager has made a few extra efforts. I feel there is a greater understanding of each other and what each one can bring to the team. I feel that there is hope now that all our issues are in the past and we can now continue to improve as a team”.
- “A great learning opportunity and it has helped me develop more understanding of the challenges facing us and what we can do collectively to deal with them”.
- “Thought prompting and helpful for reminding us what needs to be focused on to get the outcome we require”.
- “I think you have done a great job with the “bag of liquorice allsorts” that we are. You have maintained your humour”.
- “Very good exercise that promoted honest and open discussion”.
- “A good course, with helpful tips and points for managing change. Overall very enjoyable”.
- “Thank you for the session yesterday; you did a great job facilitating the session. I just wanted to say that you hit the nail on the head very early on with identifying the core issues for us as a team. The things I loved the most about the day were: learning a little more of how the team works; being able to talk as a group and hearing what is important to each team member".
- “Positive and insightful".
- “It has enabled us to get the issues out in the open and work towards resolving them".
- “The workshops were a great opportunity to make us stop and think and appreciate our current situation. It also provided a good opportunity to get to know everyone in the team as I have only just started”.
Ubuntu — or humanness is the realisation that each of us thrives only when all of us thrive.
We are inextricably linked to our family, our community, and our world.
We are inextricably linked to our family, our community, and our world.