Welcome to the Jewell Facilitation Blog
A place where you can find inspiration and insights into how facilitation can help your organisation.
Action Planning: How to Help Your Team Deliver On Its Goals
Humans are optimistic beings. We all tend to take on too much. We have ambitions, plans and exciting ideas. It's fair to say however that we aren't always realistic about what we can actually achieve. Sometimes our action planning isn't...
Why is a shared sense of direction so important to your team and how can you make it happen?
One of the key things that makes a team is the fact that everyone is pulling together in the same direction. If that isn't happening, then you don't really have a team. You may all be busy doing 'stuff' but in reality, without a shared sense of...
Team development for external teams
When you manage a team within your organisation or business you are responsible for keeping people on track, holding them to account, making sure that they do what the are there to do. And much more besides. Although each team member is way more...
Say it with loom bands
Do you remember loom bands? Quite the trend back in 2014. At least, if you were a kid! Just in case you didn’t know, hadn’t noticed or tried so hard to ignore them that you now don’t remember – these were little coloured elastic bands that could...
Who’s in the room?
So you want to do an away day, or some kind of workshop session. You probably have a reasonable idea of who should be there. But you may not have thought through the specifics. One of the most important things to work out at the planning stage is...
The importance of nurturing your team and how facilitation can help – an interview with Rin Hamburgh.
Rin Hamburgh is a business owner here in Bristol. She began as a journalist and copywriter, before founding and now leading Rin Hamburgh & Co, a strategic brand copywriting agency. Her business specialises in supporting expert-led businesses,...
The case for Facilitation in the Construction Industry
Think I can’t handle your project? Think again One of the beauties of facilitation is that it can be applied anywhere to pretty much any situation. I don’t have to be an industry expert in any industry. Nor do I need to hold a vast amount of...
Building connections: find the common threads that bring us together
Networking folk do it all the time. Sales people are trained to do it perfectly. Negotiators take it to the highest level. In fact, we all do it but often without realising it. What am I talking about? Building connections by finding...
7 tips for better team collaboration to help you to avoid great tales of the unexpected
We know what it’s like when working on a big project: halfway through and you realise that each person has a very slightly different understanding of the task in hand. Or everyone turns up to a meeting, only to discover that the ONE THING that...
5 ways to help your team contribute to your organisational strategy (without accidentally building a castle with no bathroom)
Who doesn’t love a good strategic plan? But what’s the point of a good plan if you don’t actually implement it? I have discovered over the years that I am good at planning – really good - but less good at executing those plans, especially if it...