Facilitation
Helping you to help yourself
In group work, the facilitator works with a group of people to help them have a conversation, come to agreement, or plan for the future. In general the facilitator acts as a trusted and neutral outside voice, making decisions about the process the group goes through but allowing the group to focus on and control the content of the discussion. The facilitator is a gentle guide, making it easier for the group to have that discussion.
At Skills Channel TV, we offer facilitation support to help you and your team focus on planning and achieving goals or resolving problems or challenges. Our view on facilitation is that a good facilitator guides and assists the journey of a team in arriving at decisions to achieve a goal.
Facilitator – one who contributes structure and process to interactions so groups are able the function effectively and make high quality decisions. A helper and enabler whose goal is to support others as they achieve exceptional performance.
Ingrid Bens, Facilitating with Ease
A Facilitator is an individual who enables groups and organisations to work more effectively; to collaborate and achieve synergy. The facilitator is a ‘content neutral’ party who by not taking sides or expressing or advocating a point of view during the meeting, can advocate for fair, open and inclusive procedures to accomplish the group’s work. A facilitator can also be a learning or dialogue guide to assist a group in thinking deeply about its assumptions, beliefs and values and about its systemic processes and context.
Sam Kaner et al, Facilitator’s guide to Participatory Decision Making
Group Facilitation is a process in which a person who is exceptable to all members of a group, substantively neutral, and has no decision-making authority, intervenes to help a group improve the way it identifies and solves problems and makes decisions in order to increase the group’s effectiveness.
Roger Schwarz, The Skilled Facilitator
In group work, the facilitator works with a group of people to help them have a conversation, come to agreement, or plan for the future. In general the facilitator acts as a trusted and neutral outside voice, making decisions about the process the group goes through but allowing the group to focus on and control the content of the discussion. The facilitator is a gentle guide, making it easier for the group to have that discussion.
At Skills Channel TV, we offer facilitation support to help you and your team focus on planning and achieving goals or resolving problems or challenges. Our view on facilitation is that a good facilitator guides and assists the journey of a team in arriving at decisions to achieve a goal.
Facilitator – one who contributes structure and process to interactions so groups are able the function effectively and make high quality decisions. A helper and enabler whose goal is to support others as they achieve exceptional performance.
Ingrid Bens, Facilitating with Ease
A Facilitator is an individual who enables groups and organisations to work more effectively; to collaborate and achieve synergy. The facilitator is a ‘content neutral’ party who by not taking sides or expressing or advocating a point of view during the meeting, can advocate for fair, open and inclusive procedures to accomplish the group’s work. A facilitator can also be a learning or dialogue guide to assist a group in thinking deeply about its assumptions, beliefs and values and about its systemic processes and context.
Sam Kaner et al, Facilitator’s guide to Participatory Decision Making
Group Facilitation is a process in which a person who is exceptable to all members of a group, substantively neutral, and has no decision-making authority, intervenes to help a group improve the way it identifies and solves problems and makes decisions in order to increase the group’s effectiveness.
Roger Schwarz, The Skilled Facilitator
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