Team Facilitation

What is team facilitation?

The art of facilitation is more than the power of presentation.

Good presentation skills keep your audience engaged, but the art of facilitation allows others to discover, learn, grow and change.

Through innovative group exercises, these facilitated workshops will take your team to a new level of understanding, growth, and accountability designed to create a more interconnected work group, no matter what the objective is.

Often meetings are not as effective as they could be. Agendas get lost in endless discussion, tension takes over, and people shut down, check out, or overpower others. Julie can help you facilitate small group meetings to reach a desired objective.  The length of the following sessions vary depending on number of participants, your specific objectives, and customized content.  Contact Julie to discuss details for your group.

Julie is flexible, curious, and confident.  Having years of proven approaches she could rely on, Julie challenges herself to always bring additional value and relevance to her clients.  The result is fresh approaches that build our organization's credibility and trust with the client.  She consistently displays the credibility necessary to lead and influence others.

Maureen T.
Client Strategy Director

Employees are a company's competitive advantage.  Treat them right or someone else will.  One retail company revealed that for every one-tenth of a point it boosted employee engagement, its stores saw a $100,000 increase in operating income annually...culture can make or break a business!

Smart Business Magazine
September 2016
Employee Engagement: The Best Kept Secret
An Inter-Connected Team: A Day in the Life of Another Work Team

Transform the way your departments see one another.

Often we get so stuck in our own responsibilities, tasks, and day-to-day work that other people and departments become easy targets for our common frustrations. Over time, that mindset narrows our ability to see the bigger picture—that we are all here to succeed.

This three-hour*, eye-opening session challenges individuals and teams to move past their assumptions and beyond their work scope to consider how they can create success for everyone.

This powerful “INNERview” session gets people out of their boxes and into the shoes of other departments in the company.

Participants gain greater understanding and insights into each other’s roles, pressures, and deadlines, and together they create ways to ease each other’s burdens and create more success for all.  This is real teamwork.

*This can be facilitated with a group of 10–40 people and is typically a 3–4 hour session.

The Power of Recognition: Transforming a Culture One Person at a Time

Do your employees feel that they are valued as individuals and as an important part of your work team?

The real power of recognition lies in recognizing employees as individuals.

For many businesses, creating a more connected team that knows how to be resilient is a missing business strategy.

Julie facilitates a powerful session* that allows people to see the best in others, see the best in themselves, experience the transforming work of Real Recognition in the workplace, develop future strategies as a team to create an infused culture of recognition, and begin to transform the way people see each other.

*Usually a 2 – 3 hour session.

Positive sustaining behavior change can never be forced.  It must be an option that has a more powerful attraction.

Julie Sampson, Founder
Innovative Growth LLC

 

team facilitation with Innovative Growth

Using Innovative Methods to Team Problem Solve

Do you want your team to work creatively and focus together on solving problems?

Julie will use creative methods to help your team think, share, create, and learn through facilitating group exercises that identify real problems and get everyone involved in the process.

During the session* your team will learn how to break bigger issues into identifiable themes and workable solutions. The team will categorize these areas and begin to apply strategies and options to tackle barriers to their productivity and efficiency.

All participants will be engaged in thinking, sharing, creating, and learning strategies for better problem solving.  What seem like overwhelming problems will be broken down into doable action steps that your people will be invested in carrying out.

*This session is best for a group no more than 15 people and is typically between a 3.5 – 4.5 hour session.

We invited Julie to lead our staff at our quarterly team building retreat.  Our goals was to bring awareness and deeper understanding of each department's responsibilities and needs.  Julie is very professional.  She communicates ideas effectively and has a natural ease in interacting with people.  Julie did an amazing job of creating a safe and comfortable environment and was successful in keeping everyone engaged.  Our leadership team works very hard to maintain a healthy culture in our organization, and the time our team had with Julie was well spent as it successfully facilitated a healthy, open communication allowing individuals and departments to feel heard and better understood.

Laura Fixsen
Vice President of Development Matter
Ready to identify how we can help you transform your team?