Lessons Learnt facilitation from Burton OD can help you get the best out of partnerships.

Adding value with facilitated continuous improvement

Filling a room with talented (and expensive) managers and specialists often fails to add the sort of value you expect. Instead, the meeting drags on, agreement is difficult to achieve and learning gets lost.

Yet the price for not gathering together your team and partners at critical points in a project or at its end means that opportunities are missed to consider valuable lessons learnt and encourage knowledge sharing. Using a Burton OD facilitator can get the best out of these key meetings. While the facilitator looks after the meeting process, you and your colleagues can focus on being productive.

This sort of third party involvement is particularly helpful, because:

• A facilitator leading the group process lets people focus on the issues at hand

• In complex situations (eg lots of different stakeholders meeting together), the facilitator can help the group do a better job of working together

• If the purpose of the meeting is not well defined, or agreed, an unbiased facilitator can help to build shared understanding

• Using a facilitator can speed the group’s work

• Rivalries are minimised by the presence of an outside facilitator

• The facilitator will encourage participation from everyone – thus making the best of resources available