Facilitation

Workshops, visioning, and other types of group sessions can support organizational strategy and operations, yet incomplete communication, poor group dynamics, misunderstandings, and unfocused discussions can be costly both financially and interpersonally. Personal biases, political agendas, poor interpersonal communication skills, and inadequate planning can undermine a group’s objectives and erode team interactions. Conversely, perceptive and proactive facilitation can enhance group dynamics, improve timeliness and decision making success, build strong relationships and teams, and ensure objectives are exceeded.

Booz Allen facilitators assist organizations by:

• Fostering learning within the entire group by maintaining a positive environment
• Helping create and sustain an environment of trust and openness where everyone feels comfortable speaking candidly and where differences of opinion are heard and respected
• Ensuring everyone feels included and has an opportunity to participate
• Providing a forum for effective learning and adhering to the agenda

Our facilitators can perform one or more of the following roles:

• Facilitative process observer
• Consensus-building facilitator
• Learning facilitator
• Team-builder facilitator

Our facilitators are trained in various collaborative technologies and tools to heighten the productivity of team meetings and ensure successful fulfillment of a group’s objectives. We can strategically combine technologies such as video conferencing, online groupware, audience response systems, audio conferencing, and fixed location groupware with the following tools:

• Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior (FIRO-B)
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• Strength-Deployment Inventory (SDI)
• Parker Team Development Survey
• Thomas-Killman Conflict Mode Instrument

Link here to the complete Facilitation Capability Sheet.