“If understanding and buy-in are needed, so is facilitation.” - Michael Wilkinson

Facilitation

Sometimes people just need help to talk with each other, or to know when to stop talking and begin making decisions.

Holmes Street Leadership’s facilitation is provided in a way that accomplishes your desired objectives, supports real conversations, and builds effective relationships.  We motivate, guide, question, build bridges and keep clients on track and in doing so, also build the capacity of the leaders we work with to do the same once we’ve left the scene.

Our facilitation can:

  • Create buy-in, excitement and alignment to a new, desired organizational future

  • Help participants explore diverse views in a supported and structured process so that everyone feels heard and understood.  The group is then in a much better position to make decisions based on the views presented.

  • Help new teams get off to a strong start

  • Help groups stop circuitous discussion and make real decisions, building in accountability so that those decisions actually get implemented and evaluated

  • Remove unproductive conflict among co-workers and create highly functional teams that get work done and enjoy working together

  • Build resiliency to and support for organizational change efforts

Examples of facilitation services include:

New Manager/Team Integration

Leadership and Board Retreats

Intergroup Facilitation

Employee Engagement Efforts

What Clients Say

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  • My management team is a virtual team spread across nine time zones. It means we value time together to develop and work through issue holding us back.

    . Denise was recommended by a colleague to run management training for my executive team. We worked through the agenda prior to the Portland even and then first met at the event itself. It's s tough challenge to coach and facilitate a session with lots of "strong" individuals at any time. But coming in cold makes it doubly so. Denise delivered perfectly, combining experience, humor and a high degree of professionalism to lift our game. I strongly recommend Denise.

    — Oliver King, Group CEO at Avinode Gropu

  • I worked with Denise on a retreat for my leadership team. Denise and I collaborated on the agenda, team building activities, & facilitating the meeting.

    Denise has a great way of understanding team dynamics and diffusing potentially difficult conversations. She makes all feel like a truly integral piece of the process. Denise is thorough and follows through as promised. Her communication through the process was excellent. I highly recommend Denise Holmes and Holmes Street Leadership Consulting, LLC. My team enjoyed working with Denise and benefited from her expertise in the area of team building and communication.

    — Director of Pharmacy Services

  • I am very fortunate to have Denise as a professional coach. Her approach allows for a seamless transition from discussion, to introspection, to tangible actions for sustained improvement.

    She brought exercises and insights which really resonated with me, especially those which used strategic planning for development. Additionally, she is a fantastic facilitator/instructor (for team dynamics) and an incredibly kind and honest person.

    — Daniel Wuerth, Global Key Account Manager, OEM Harvester at Oregon Tool.

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