The Katale Partnership

We provide a professionally-structured facilitation approach which ensures focus and thorough and complete debate through full, equal and constructive participation. And we not just encourage assumption challenging, but demand it. The opportunity for good facilitation arises when organisations realise that the big issues are not being dealt with ef... fectively or efficiently. Decisions are just not being made and meetings or workshops are considered by one-and-all to be a colossal waste of time. Reasons for this are numerous and varied. Barriers to constructive group engagement range from poorly constructed agendas, ineffective meeting controls, vested interests, hidden agendas, egos, and dominant (and subservient) personalities or just plain fuzzy thinking and purpose. Our facilitation approach ensures that context and purpose are properly established, that the rules of engagement are understood (and then become invisible), expectations are managed and there is consensus around direction and outcomes. While the answer to a particular debate may be unknown at the start of an engagement, good facilitation ensures that the group arrives at an one and, more importantly, commits to it. As facilitators, we are neutral to everything other than the requirement for the meeting to achieve its objectives. We create an environment which is safe and respectful, yet energetic, focused and robust. Before the session or meeting, we research and understand the issues and expectations to appreciate the barriers and enablers to effective engagement. This includes designing and conducting structured surveys. We ensure that all data necessary to inform the debate(s) is made available before the session in order to avoid discussions based on opinion and speculation. With the company, we design an agenda which is productive and results-oriented. At the session, we actively draw on the skills and experience of each and every member of the group in a challenging yet non-threatening way. And we make absolutely sure that by the time ...Read More