Team Facilitation

Building collaboration and enhancing productivity

An underperforming team can be costly for your organisation.

When collaboration is poor, productivity suffers; there is a higher turnover of staff, more days are lost through sickness and stress-related issues, and decision-making is compromised.

Our experienced facilitators can bring your team together to open up dialogue: to support the team members to communicate more openly, to start pulling in the same direction, and to maximise and value one another’s contributions.

Team facilitation, as provided by UK Mediation, can result in your teams becoming:

Productive
Creative and innovative
Resilient
Consistently committed to their goals
Able to maintain their own well-being and effectiveness

How does it work?

1. Scoping

UK Mediation speaks with the team leader or referrer to set some goals for the facilitation and to discuss what is possible.

2. Objective setting

We speak to the team (or some of the members) and discuss their individual and collective objectives.

3. Group session

UK Mediation convenes a group facilitation session, either a half or a whole day, and sometimes more than one session.

4. Follow-up

We follow up our work around four weeks following the group session and check whether the objectives have been met.

Team Facilitation FAQs

We understand that you may have some queries about how it all works.

We’ve answered some of the most Frequently Asked Questions below.

Does team facilitation work?

Simply put, yes.

We have been doing this for 23 years now and have helped many individuals to develop their understanding of conflict and to enhance the effectiveness of their interactions with others.

Can the team facilitation sessions be done online?

Yes, facilitation sessions can be delivered online by Zoom or Teams.

Is team facilitation confidential?

Yes, the team facilitation sessions are conducted discretely in a private setting with a highly-trained facilitator.

Is team facilitation voluntary?

Yes. We find that, if individuals are forced into taking part, the team facilitation sessions often don't work as well as they should.

If individuals taking part are all fully on-board with the team facilitation process, we see that they are often more committed to making the agreements work.

What our clients say

"There were some issues that needed to be addressed, and the session was very helpful in getting us to speak about them. I feel that things will improve from here on in."

Recent participant in a team facilitation

"The facilitator did really well in getting to the root of our issues and, even though I was nervous about the sessions, they made me feel really comfortable."