What are Facilitated Workshops?

A Facilitated Workshop is an intensive, structured meeting led by an impartial session leader or facilitator. It is designed to enable the participant, to specify their business needs or requirements, according to the published objectives. The aim is for all participants to come to a consensus on the information discussed.

This is a team based approach to communication. Using an interactive workshop environment, effective group dynamics and visual aids, facilitated sessions are designed to extract high quality information in a compressed time frame, to meet a predetermined set of deliverables.

This process replaces lengthy interview and analysis methods that gather information from individuals separately. Instead, there is a facilitated, interactive environment in which all key players contribute to the information gathering and decision making process. In this way issues are highlighted or resolved quickly and the business people can contribute very practically to the design of the solution.

The Benefits of Using Facilitated Workshops

• Agreed output
• Team building
• Improvement in productivity
• Elapsed time is shorter
• Issues raised and dealt with
• Ambiguities less likely
• Confidence levels are higher
• Consensus not compromise
• Clear ownership by business
• Enthusiasm