Facilitation

Team Development Team Building Excursion Learning^™ Facilitation

Experienced facilitators identify, anticipate and guide groups toward productive communication dialogues and desired meeting outcomes. Innolect’s experienced facilitators anticipate and read the room in the moment to ensure meetings are productive and groups achieve desired outcomes for:

Conflict and Change Situations
Strategic Thinking and Organizational Alignment
Problem Solving and Decision Making

Our Master Facilitators:

Ask the right questions
Use structured methodologies to gain agreement and commitment
Offer a neutral third-party perspective
Help address confidential business threats, legal issues and strategic opportunities
Employ technology to engage virtual stakeholders
Create a safe environment for dialogue and to confront thorny issues head on

We help clients bridge the uncertainty gap between before and after COVID-19. Remote work creates challenges as leaders and teams navigate how to both stay connected and collaborate effectively. Our team of executive coaches and master facilitators are helping clients:

Facilitate virtual strategic and scenario planning sessions
Manage their new environments with virtual webinars and teambuilding sessions
Learn with new platforms and development options
Grow talent with leadership assessment and executive coaching

Critical Meeting Facilitation

Times of great uncertainty necessitate agile thinking to design both short and long-term alternatives. Our master facilitators guide strategy development and decision-making and help teams solve problems, innovate and implement change. We promote “fresh thinking” and intentional practices that DIVERGE (Zoom Out) and CONVERGE (Zoom In) to address complex business challenges.

We offer:

Scenario Planning (for uncertain futures)
Strategic Planning and Organization Alignment
Strategic Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making

Important Internal Meetings

Careful planning and preparation are essential to maximize meeting effectiveness. External facilitators often help teams gain insights and spend their meeting time productively. We use time-tested tools and techniques to help teams achieve tangible results. We focus on the right issues and avoid groupthink and other cognitive biases to reach agreement on actions. Typical sessions:

Increase cross-functional collaboration
Build safe environments for risk-taking and effective conflict management
Foster trust & commitment by getting all voices heard
Cultivate shared accountability and end-to-end ownership
Align goals and processes to business strategy
Stimulate interdependency to achieve goals
Foster creativity and innovation

Corporate Off-sites and Conferences

When senior management, boards of directors or sales organizations want a corporate meeting, they invite Innolect to facilitate customized designs. We understand the significant investment of time and money. We partner with and listen to clients, then work to determine the best ways to accomplish their goals using fresh, innovative meeting design. With most clients, we conduct assessments during the design phase. We use focus groups, phone interviews or questionnaires to target our format and approach. Using our experience and industry best practices, we:

Ensure the right people are included for governance, expertise and involvement
Prepare to ensure clear desired outcomes and success measures
Design the “right” activities, given the people, facilities and time available
Provide structure and engage the right subject matter experts
Offer proven decision-making approaches to ensure groups arrive at results that are jointly created, understood and accepted
Build a shared experience for learning and transformation
Adapt in the moment to meet highest priority objectives
Increase chances for getting actual work done

Team Facilitation & Development Blogs

Shape Your Team: Lessons from Centipede Races

By Kittie Watson | October 3, 2019

Do you ever hear seasoned employees complain about inexperienced hires or new hires complain about employees who have been around too long? Sadly, it’s fairly common. Some describe what is was like “back in the day” and believe others need to pay their dues. Others talk about doing things the way they’ve always been done rather than experimenting with new ideas. With multi-generational employees working side-by-side to achieve common goals, inclusive leaders help team members learn from each other.

What Can Aspen Teach Us About Collaboration?

By Kittie Watson | March 22, 2019

Did you know that aspen trees in Trembling Giant grove in Utah are the oldest living organism in the world—over 80,000 years old? You might ask, “how is that possible?” Our answer is twofold: Collaboration and Support.

Collaboration, Encouragement and Barn-raising

By Kittie Watson | October 16, 2018

The Cajun Navy, an informal network of good Samaritans with small watercraft, mobilized once again in the last few weeks—this time to help the victims of Hurricanes Florence and Michael. Formed as a response to Katrina in 2005, the so-called Cajun Navy has saved thousands of stranded people and lives. Their emergent activity, now an integral component of hurricane disaster relief, has similar characteristics to what many Amish families experience with barn-raising when disaster strikes in their communities.