Welcome to the Jewell Facilitation Blog
A place where you can find inspiration and insights into how facilitation can help your organisation.
Building a Strong Company Culture Beyond Pizza…
Pizza (with or without the beer) is often synonymous with a happy team, downing tools on a Friday, chomping on a tasty stonebaked something from a popular local pizza place. For a fast growing company with...
A tale of two teams
When an organisation is small, the concept of 'team' is quite simple. There may only be one team, and a small one at that. This brings its own challenges, but co-ordination between teams isn't one of them! However, as an organisation grows beyond...
How to build accountability into your team
Team accountability helps people follow through on their commitments and take responsibility for an action, idea, goal, or piece of work. Being accountable means people doing what they say they are going to do. Holding yourself and each other to...
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...
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...