Organisational Development Facilitation

Create a stable, resilient and dynamic organisation

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Organisational Development Facilitator | Jewell Facilitation

We specialise in bringing teams together aligning your people your purpose and plans, improving processes, communication and culture, and overall organisational effectiveness.

Whether you’re a large SME or a third sector organisation, we’re here to help you.
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Why choose us as your organisational development facilitators?

Organisations, by their very nature, are hugely intricate entities and making the time and space for growth and development is not easy.

As things change you might be struggling to maintain clarity and purpose, keep your people motivated and feel like the adaptable, creative and thriving organisation you want to be.

Central to any stable, resilient and dynamic organisation is a dedicated and motivated workforce, aligned and on board with the mission of the organisation. Creating crystal clear plans and well-honed processes, alongside an unshakable understanding of the organisational culture, are all part of ensuring an organisation evolves, adapts and thrives as time goes on.

Organisational Development helps you align the different and variously complex areas of your organisation to increase organizational effectiveness.

A facilitator will help engage your people in the conversations that matter as part of developing the organisation for future success

At Jewell Facilitation we take a collaborative approach to organisational development designing and facilitating workshops and away days in tandem with other group sessions and interventions that combine to provide the support needed. These may involve the consultation and engagement of key stakeholders through surveys and questionnaires, developing evaluation measures and feedback mechanisms and identifying further specialist training or development.

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Helene's warm, clear and experienced approach helped to steer our organisation through a difficult decision making process.

Working under a tight deadline and a small team, Helene counselled the team to consolidate our strengths, high lighted our weaknesses and make firm decisions and action points to move or organisation forward. Our company required an informal flexible approach – working with strong personalities and a team cynical about change; Helene worked efficiently and respectfully to our brief and helped the team put together a new organisational structure to take it forward.

Elaine Randall, Tribe of Doris

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We tailor solutions to your needs

Different organisations need different things, but some common areas of focus for organisational effectiveness are:

Vision, Purpose and Values

Knowing and understanding your guiding stars so everyone knows which way you are heading.

Structures, systems and processes

Including communication systems and organisational ways of working.

Strategies and plans

Getting clear on the course you are following so you can get to where you want to be.

Organisational culture

Shaping what defines you as an organisation so it is clear who and what you are.

Trust, relationships, connectivity

Dynamics between and within different teams.

Change

Understanding the drivers, and helping you decide which way to move forwards and how to prepare and plan for it.

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The benefits of working with an organisational development facilitator

Organisational development often involves significant change, and you may experience resistance to change, uncertainty, and disruption.

Organisational development facilitators are skilled at managing conversations around change, and ensuring that everyone feels involved, seen and heard.

We are experts in communication, something that organisations can find enormously challenging. A facilitator provides opportunities to discover what might be going wrong and to understand the different communication preferences and styles. Crucially we can pave the way for open and honest communication so that there is nothing simmering beneath the surface.

We help you see the wood and the trees!

An experienced organisational development facilitator is adept at untangling complexity, something that often overwhelms the people within an organisation. We create the space to address confusion, draw out what is important to people and help tease out the threads in the tangle so that it makes sense and leaves everyone with a clear path forward.

An organisational development facilitator will skillfully bring different teams together regardless of how much time they have previously spent together or how well they understand their respective roles. They can also set the scene for equitable conversations, avoiding any territorial disputes.

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Case study

How we’ve helped real teams, just like yours.

Award Winning Facilitation to support Dublin's Transition to Net Zero

Jewell Facilitation partnered with Codema, Dublin’s Energy Agency, to help a team of climate experts craft a bold plan to accelerate the city’s shift to low carbon.

Through eight expertly facilitated workshops, the team overcame barriers, built consensus, and created actionable strategies for a sustainable future. Discover how tailored facilitation unlocked creativity, fostered collaboration, and delivered impactful results.

Ready to move your organisation forward?

Let’s explore how our tailored facilitation can help you align you to your vision, strengthen your culture, and create meaningful connections.
Get in touch today and let’s start developing a thriving, resilient organisation together.
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What is organisational development?

Organisational development is a series of interventions that help align the different and varyingly complex areas of your organisation to increase organisational effectiveness.  Organisational Development typically focuses on improving ways of working, culture, trust, relationships, connectivity and group dynamics, communication, and collaboration, as well as creating alignment between plans and goals, structures, and practices.

When the different aspects of an organisation are in alignment, everything works better.

An organisational development facilitator can help your business by helping you to define your purpose and goals, understand the people and the way they work, create alignment and prepare for change. This will commonly take place through a series of facilitated workshops and other interventions such as employee surveys and analysis leading to a more effective and efficient work environment.

An organisational development intervention is a sequence of activities, actions, and events intended to help an organisation improve its performance and effectiveness.

Overall, organisational development aims to streamline an organisation, improve communications, aid decision making, improve adaptability, increase productivity, and create a more positive work environment.

To achieve this, organisational development works to align teams with the organisation’s purpose, goals and plans as well as support change.

Working on team development means the focus is on improving how people work together, create plans and ideas and make decisions. This could be a senior leadership team, project team or any other type of team.

For some small organisations the team is the organisation and so the approach is very much the same.

For larger entities there are often multiple teams at work and so the lines of communication, work streams, roles and responsibilities and ways of working are more complex. At an organisational level, a more involved approach is often needed to work with different workstreams and teams, and a longer-term intervention is likely to be needed. Workshops may include individuals from one team or several teams depending on the objective.

Working with an organisational development facilitator is a collaborative process. It will involve initial meetings, planning and pre-work to understand the current situation and the requirements. There will then be a number of facilitated workshop sessions with a variety of team members. We may use a series of analysis tools in the preparatory stage to gain a wider understanding of the context, scope and issues that are present in a given organisation.

An organisation is a body of people working together with a shared goal and structures in place to support that work. The organisation may be a business, charity, public body or some other entity where people are working together.