Facilitation

In-the-room Decision Support

Supporting decision-makers. Our job is to stand in the room and make every decision count; this means supporting people with responsibilities facing all kinds of uncertainty and complexity. Strategy is lived a decision at a time. This should feel empowering, not overwhelming.

Moving organisations forward. We help teams and individuals experience a heightened sense of the moment; the knowledge that this decision changes things – and the resolve to follow through. We help organisations manage complexity and recognise Opportunity in uncertainty.

Conflict Resolution & Consensus Building

It is the nature of things that there are regions where thinking is not yet aligned, where different views of the world have not yet been mapped onto one another. These are the temporary places which lead to the most rewarding destinations.

On an uncertain landscape differences of opinion, different perspectives go with the territory. It is the nature of strategic dialogue to pass through areas where thinking needs to be more robust, where there are still alternative outcomes to explore.

We excel at supporting multiple viewpoints, multiple voices and facilitating the group processes that lead to the common ground. Our facilitators know how people plot courses through uncertainty and complexity - we provide the orientation and support to ensure they find each other and the territory beyond temporary obstacles.

Conference, Retreat & Summit Facilitation

Putting your talented people together in one room is frequently the key to getting things done and releasing Returns on Decisions. It can also come at great cost to the organisation when that time does not deliver the outcomes required. We can help make every event count.

Conferences. We move large-scale events away from PowerPoints, the usual speeches, the usual formats and towards animated panel discussions, mass workshops, parallel focus groups and facilitated networking. Conferences need purpose and tangible outcomes too.

Retreats. Pace and intensity. Black holes and light switches. Space and energy. A change of environment and an opportunity to reach somewhere fundamentally different. We provide round the clock, real-time process design and support, your team provides the results. When delivery is essential, ask for Base Camp.

Summits. Time is precious, especially when diaries are difficult to sync. The politics, the context and the subtext are all complex, futures uncertain, stakes high. Collaborative preparation is everything: we support from the decision design and the advance teams' negotiations to the successful resolution of the main event.