Facilitation

Small and large not-for-profit organisations have become increasingly aware of the benefit of getting away from the office, for an evening, a day, or several days, in order to reflect and plan.

Ruth Valentine regularly facilitates awaydays of this kind, for staff teams, management teams, trustees or combinations of these. Some common aims for awaydays are:

• team building
• gathering contributions to the strategic plan
• clarifying roles
• managing change constructively
• refocussing on the values of the organisation

The plan for an awayday emerges from a detailed discussion of the organisation or team's current situation, key concerns, and objectives for the session. Facilitation can be highly structured, or designed merely to provide a loose containing format, depending on the needs of the team.

"A brief letter to say how very much we all enjoyed the session with you. We were all aware of how well the content fed into the purpose of the away-day and the rest of our agenda. It was a most valuable team exercise for us to undertake and your facilitation helped enormously". (Director, on awayday for herself and Trustees)

Contact Ruth for further details or to discuss a session you have in mind.