meetings
Remote and off the grid
You can start with reading my practical mini eBook
"Designing meetings people love"
and do everything by yourself
OR
You can request one or more learning 🎓 experiences
and do everything by yourself
OR
Let me help you turn your next meeting into a more inclusive group experience that your people will love ❤️ positively cite long after:
book conversation to start!
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Let me offer myself to you for a longer period of time so we can turn many of your meetings into more inclusive group experiences that people will love ❤️ and brag about long after
book conversation to start!
FAQ: What sessions & formats can you help with?
This service is highly customer centric. Therefore it is good to start with a conversation to understand your needs better so you can receive the best service.
In many cases, we will end up with a bend of various sessions & formats together. Below is a non exhaustive list of more or less standard sessions & formats that I can help you with:
Different kinds of alignment & vision creation sessions (like shared understanding, company, team, product visions)
Different goals & outcomes setting sessions (like SMART, OKRs)
Different kinds of mappings (like road, story, impact)
Different kinds of plannings (like yearly, quarterly, big room, small room, daily)
Different kinds of agreements (like working agreements, team norms/rules)
Different kinds of post mortems, reflections, retrospectives
Team/project/program kick-off/lift-off events
Townhalls, all-hands, conferences, events, meetups
Brainstorming, ideation, problem solving, decision making
Lean Coffee, World Cafe, Open Space, some Liberating structures
Different human constellations in space
Learning sessions with high people involvement like Training From The Back of The Room
As mentioned - above is to give you a feeling of what's generally possible. Do not limit yourself with above, book conversation to discuss your specific needs to have a support with a custom solution.
FAQ: In what industries can you help with facilitation?
Facilitation is industry agnostic super power. You can use it anywhere where people work in groups and teams and I can help you do facilitation better.
FAQ: What is your experience with facilitation?
I have been facilitating since 2005 in different roles starting from small groups (<10) and up to large groups (>300). Scroll feedback page for more information.
FAQ: What is your qualification regarding facilitation?
A lot of self-driven learning from world's top facilitators via their books of wisdom.
Being mentored in facilitation by others during years of Scrum Mastering and Agile Coaching work.
Being validated in facilitation competence during my Certified Agile Coach (CAC) - Certified Team Coach (CTC) program.
I am a Certified Agile Facilitator (CAF) from Scrum Alliance.
Read more about my qualification.
FAQ: What is facilitation, afterall?
Let's look at what facilitation helps to have:
you are calmer, more confident leader
you as a leader are more valued & better rated
group & team occasions are much better prepared
group & team occasions have clear(er) outcomes
group & team occasions are better handled in a real-time:
participants are included, valued, inspired, motivated, engaged
above goes beyond a single event (it improves leadership)
group & team occasions are shorter & people want them
Facilitation's "official" definition has variants yet common part is that facilitation is a "group process leadership". If you'd like to learn more, please visit this IAF's page.
It is important to emphasize that while different tools & techniques need to be known & mastered, even more important is the self-mastery skill. Which is a leadership skill at its core - how do you master yourself when with a group of people?
For me facilitation or group process leadership is the catalysis of a group's dynamics so that it is inclusive, trustworthy, safe and positive thus leveraging the group's maximum potential in the real time context.
FAQ: When facilitation and this service are not appropriate?
If...
you think there is no room for growth of your group & team leadership
you think that renting me as a facilitator will solve your leadership/management challenge (renting me IS NOT outsourcing your leadership/management)
you are using command & control approach at your work and consider continue using it
you think that involving others early into collaborative group activities is a waste of energy & time
you think that achieving consensus/consent is waste of energy & time
you think that complex problems can only be solved by lone super stars