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Coaching, facilitation, and problem management By Chris, on August 11th, 2011
Who do you know who can facilitate important meetings and workshops to get better results by replacing arguments with discussion, fuzzyness with focus, and defensiveness with teamwork?
Who can then go on to carry decisions forward by coaching teams or individuals through to full implementation of the agreed objectives?

And what if this person was willing to take on the whole thing, start to finish, as a project with full stakeholder management and progress reporting?
I use any mixture of facilitation, coaching and project management, bringing these leading edge skills to bear in combination in the best possible way. Controlled costs and measurable return on investment can be built in from the start..
Every day, all around the world, thousands of companies pour huge resources down the drain — frustrated employees are wasting precious time arguing in endless meetings that go nowhere. Facilitation can help you save money, turn your meetings around, free up time, and strengthen your business results by working with you to get better outcomes from meetings, with less time swallowed up and lasting team benefits...
from Linkedin: “Working with Chris didn’t feel like work at all. He was able to make challenging me to adopt different and more effective marketing strategies really interesting and, above all, fun. He probed as to what my personal blockages were and then really helped me to overcome them. Chris has such a wealth of experience he was able to encourage me to think really creatively around what would and wouldn’t work for me and gave me plenty of useful tools that I could go away and use with my own clients. I would happily recommend Chris to anyone who wants to move themselves and their career to the next level.”
Coaching is a widely used skill to improve individual and team results, and will help identify what needs to shift in order to meet objectives, and ensure that shift sticks. If you are new to coaching, try our brief introduction….you might follow up by with more suggestions….
Using facilitation and coaching for developing and building…… creating pockets of excellence, leadership development, executive coaching, first 90 day support, and positioning for change….
Using facilitation and coaching for engagement and motivation….. Shaping the future, Team peak performance, vision and values, self-directed development, personal development, and facilitated two-way communication
Using facilitation and coaching for problem solving ….”lonely at the top” syndrome, leadership development, conflict resolution, aligning values and priorities, supporting return from absence, performance issues.
Each of these coaching interventions lends themselves to being managed as projects, and my long experience in Projects and programmes convinces me of the potential of both facilitation and coaching in such environments – save time, save money, improve delivery….independent assurance, conflict resolution, mentoring from experience, team peak performance….
Call me for a discussion at any stage – first ideas, planning or if it has all gone horribly wrong – I love my work, and am happy to share ideas.
Regards,
Chris
 Chris Thomas is a trained Facilitator, Corporate and Executive Coach, and Project Manager with experience in central government departments, FTSE100 companies, and managing small businesses. Now based in the Midlands and North West, you can contact Chris for a free initial consultation and meeting.

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