All organizations, teams and groups struggle with moving through conflicted/difficult issues from time to time. In many instances, groups are well served to look outside their internal structures to invite an external third party to facilitate their group through these issues. This frees up all members to participate in the content and discussion of the agenda while providing skilled and focused leadership to the group as they move through the conversations. It also removes any optics of bias from the conversation of contentious issues as the facilitator is an externally hired, neutral third party.
Types of facilitations that are commonly requested:
+ Staff/board meeting facilitation around contentious issues
+ Dispute systems design
+ Strategic planning meetings
+ Critical incident debriefs
+ Conflict resolution protocol development
+ Respectful workplace policy development
+ “Town hall”/public meetings