Inspiring Teams for Clarity & Action!

Facilitation

When teams come together, experienced facilitation can greatly enhance the business results and outcomes. By creating the necessary space and opportunity to engage issues head on, a trained facilitator often makes the difference between a ‘good’ experience and an exceptional one, and ensures that the event becomes the foundation for moving forward and the point of reference to inspire and transform.

Even teams that generally function well sometimes go through difficult periods. Team facilitation can help get the team back on track, change course when needed, resolve conflicts and find solutions to performance clocks.

Facilitation objectives may include:

• Building alignment to team objectives
• Creating opportunities for team learning
• Developing capacity to enhance team performance
• Commitment to collaboration and shared ownership
• Driving business results

Using an EDGE facilitator is not only helpful in improving team performance, it also permits organization leaders the opportunity to engage in a more neutral role, as a team participant. This is particularly useful in larger, consensus building and data collection types of meetings that are more successful when facilitated by someone without a stake in the outcome of the discussions.

Off-Site Experiences.

Sometimes it’s useful for teams to get away from the workplace. An unfamiliar setting provides an opportunity to consider issues from a fresh perspective, to be creative and more playful with possibilities, to build connections with colleagues, and to engage in discussions for which there is typically insufficient time or opportunity in the workplace.

At EDGE, we partner with you to create customized retreats and “off-site” events that focus on team-related issues and team development. Events can include both indoor and outdoor experiential, action-learning activities. These activities can focus on elements of team performance such as building trust, working cooperatively and building effective communication.  They can build team skills like problem solving, personal responsibility and leadership and/or elements of the team’s work focus such as strategy development, decision-making and project planning.

We can design and facilitate large or small events that last from a few hours to a few days. Every one of our customized team events create engaged participants, build performance, contribute to organizational success and achieve impact.

The “Wow” Factor.

Our facilitators encourage teams to find collective meaning, define or refine team vision and purpose, establish commitment to organizational goals and develop effective work processes. The outcomes are engaging, inspiring and results-driven. If you’re looking for the ‘Wow Factor’ for your next team event, you have come to the right place.