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Get teams on the same page with visualisation techniques and standardised note taking.
What makes facilitation different?
Conventional Meetings
- Unfocused: Without structure, discussion meanders and wastes time.
- Dominated by few: lack of structure can let some take over the conversation, while others hesitate to contribute.
- Unclear Outcomes: A sense of "meeting for the sake of meeting" is a pandemic of modern business.
DESC Workshops
- Focused: Workshops have clear activities designed to keep everyone on track.
- Inclusive Participation: Facilitators ensure everyone's ideas are visualised fairly and anonymously for all.
- Clear Outcomes: Facilitators capture ideas, decisions and action items, ensuring everyone leaves knowing what's next.
Is your team finding it difficult to stay on the same page?
Meetings often leave people struggling to keep up with the flood of information, relying on limited short-term memory to retain crucial details.
A breakdown in communication occurs because people filter and remember information differently, leading to different understanding of the subject between team members.
Facilitated meetings offer a solution. Information is visualised for the whole team to refer to when they need it. Our methods of visualising are chosen based on your unique situation.
Standardised note-taking uses individual notes to contribute to a single vision. By formatting observations the same way, they can be seen collectively, rather than remembered separately. This gives the opportunity for comparing, organising, adding to and adjusting in real-time.
This process not only clarifies the current topic but also provides a structured space for exploring tangents, ensuring no valuable insight gets lost in the shuffle.
How we bring facilitation to you
Book a call with one of our team to find out if DESC facilitation is right for your company.
We learn about your business so we can build the best workshop for your unique goals.
We design your custom workshop, with a schedule for participants to read ahead of time.
Our facilitators will come to you to guide your team through exercises designed to get results fast!
Step 1: Book a call with one of our team to find out if DESC facilitation is right for your company.
Step 2: We will learn about your business so we can build the best workshop for your unique goals.
Step 3: We will design your custom workshop, with a schedule for participants to read ahead of time.
Step 4: Our facilitators will come to you to guide your team through exercises designed to get results fast!
Are members of your team dominating the conversation?
A bad idea said well can derail the entire direction of a project. Anonymous idea generation and voting allows your team to assess ideas based on their own merit, without being influenced by big personalities or authority figures.
Our goal is to allow the best ideas to shine without being weighed down by ineffective communication.
An example of a basic voting system:
1: The team anonymously create and vote on ideas, arranged at random.
2: The items are revisualised in order of votes.
3: A chosen Decider* makes the final decision, using team votes to get a clear picture of what they've assessed to be the top options.
Voting systems can be very different depending on the specific needs of your custom workshop, this is simply an example of a basic system.
*The Decider is a pre-defined project lead who has the final say in all decision making during the workshop, they must be a trusted member of the team, and are usually the most qualified in the subject of the project.
Are you unlocking the full potential of your team’s ideas?
It's rare to find a team where everyone feels fully empowered to share their thoughts and contribute their best ideas. Psychological Safety describes team members feeling secure enough to take risks and share novel ideas without fear of judgment. This is crucial for making sound decisions and fostering innovation.
Studies by Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson have shown that Psychological Safety is linked to higher performance and creativity in teams, while Google's Project Aristotle showed it to be the most important factor in effective team collaboration.
Our founder, a certified UK Behaviour Analyst (UKBA), has been creating Psychological Safety in teams for decades. This expertise seamlessly integrates with Facilitation practices, encouraging higher engagement and generating more valuable data for exercises.
Do your meetings lack actionable results?
Normal meetings often end without clear, actionable plans. People leave uncertain about their tasks, unaware of the rest of the team's responsibilities, and unclear on deadlines.
Misunderstandings are less likely when the plan is created with everyone's involvement. DESC engages team members in detailing tasks and deciding outcomes, ensuring their most useful input is reflected in the plan. This approach creates a sense of ownership, leading to clarity and commitment to the goal.
Every workshop we run concludes with a commitment to a future goal. Here we see generated tasks arranged in a roadmap, then assigned to days in the future where team members will commit to making progress.
By involving the whole range of expertise in the process, we have produced a far more robust and detailed plan than any single member of the team could have produced alone.
So if you want to...
- Upgrade your team's efficiency
- Work with - not against - your team
- Make faster decisions
- Overcome organisational paralysis
- Unpack your teams thoughts concisely
- Leave all documentation to us
- Visualise strategy effortlessly
- Stop worrying about team cohesion
- Upgrade your team's efficiency
- Work with - not against - your team
- Make faster, better decisions
- Overcome organisational paralysis
- Unpack your teams thoughts simply and concisely
- Leave all documentation to us
- Visualise strategy effortlessly
- Stop worrying about team cohesion
Then join the future of meetings and set up a call with us today
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