FACILITATING
The word
FACILITATE comes from
the Latin and means "to make easy or less difficult."
Thus, a facilitator assists groups of people to work together more
effectively --making it easier or less difficult than without a
facilitator.
A facilitator may work with
teams, Boards of Directors, work groups, ad hoc groups, community
groups, large and small groups of all varieties.
Haskell Associates' Experience
in Facilitation Includes:
- Coaching a team
- Conducting a strategic
planning session
- Helping members of a group
to give feedback to each other on how well they are working
together
- Diagnosing group problems
and making appropriate interventions
- Designing and conducting
Board retreats
- Assisting groups to deal
with conflict
- Designing and conducting
large scale interventions, such as a Future Search
- Finding creative ways to
assist a group to function more effectively.
Here's what
clients tell us about our Facilitation:
"Thanks so much for your
help with our retreat last November. Your choice of the Future
Search model turned out to be a terrific one for helping the group
focus on its goals and mission. Your facilitation style gave us
just the right amount of structure and freedom to move us along on
the task. The Council has been energized by the process and has
begun to put some of the thinking into action." -- Gail
Loeb, Community Council Coordinator, Hall-Mercer CMH/MRC,
Pennsylvania Hospital
"Jean is an excellent, very
competent and creative leader. She did an outstanding job even
though the group was twice the size it should have been." -- Ann
Updegraff Spleth, President, Homeland Ministries
