Welcome to the Jewell Facilitation Blog
A place where you can find inspiration and insights into how facilitation can help your organisation.
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...
Why different perspectives are key for your business
A workshop participant recently commented how nice it was to hear all the different perspectives in the session. Hearing the stories that others bring, the questions they raise and the examples they share shines a whole new light on what you think...
Team Dynamics: You may know your team’s strengths but do you know how willing (or able) your team is to work together?
Team Dynamics and Facilitation Much of my work is with teams. They may be teams within a large organisation, or individuals in a smaller organisation that form different teams according to what they are doing. Team dynamics move and shift...
How quickly can you dunk a biscuit? (observing the art of facilitation).
What on earth does a facilitator DO? If you’ve ever wondered what the point of facilitation might be, then take a moment or two and see what Claire thought. She came along to assist me facilitating a full day session for a wonderful client a...
The Art of Winging it.
Do you sometimes feel like you're winging it? Do you get started on something big and important, and then have that ‘heart in your mouth’ moment when you realise that things are totally not going your way, at all? Maybe someone asked you a...
A positive spanner in the works
I was talking to a client the other day about the series of workshops I had facilitated with their brilliant yet slightly disjointed team. The workshops were focused on team communication and had a really positive impact on the way the team works,...
The New Working Relationship
What do we mean by ‘relationships’? I'm not talking about the romantic kind, but the work place kind between colleagues. We think we know what relationships means, but there are so many kinds - between colleagues, partners, friends, children,...
How to bring some superhero magic to your team.
What's not to like in a superhero? They can do all kinds of things us mortals can't; fix things, save the world, turn back time, fly, turn invisible, read people's minds....the list of possibilities is pretty endless. Photo by Michelle Cassar on...
In the mirror of my mind…..
As we hurtle into the second month of the year I realise that the half written first blog of the year, was still half written. So now here it is, finished off. Full of things I thought at the start of the year, all about last year. So let us...
The Luxury of Thinking Time
There is no doubt about it, we are very much in the age of efficiency. Everything is right there in front of us, at our fingertips (quite literally). Many people are online all day every day and even now as meeting people "in real life" once more...