Work with Helene Jewell
Ways in which we can work together
When you work with Jewell Facilitation you can finally stop wasting time on lengthy group discussions that go nowhere, resulting in intense frustration, confusion and a lack of actionable outcomes.
Working with Helene Jewell will enable you to successfully include the right people in the right conversations to build strategies, solve problems, review progress, make decisions and generate ideas so you and your business can move forwards. You will see improved team communication, collaboration and cohesiveness and better working together.
The right time and place
When you work with Jewell Facilitation you can finally sleep easier at night knowing that you have brought in a safe pair of hands to guide you all through those tricky discussions, enabling everyone to feel heard and be a valuable part of the conversation.
Helene is often accompanied by other carefully selected facilitators, coaches and consultants who an co-facilitate or work alongside her as part of a team. This is particularly important when working online or with larger more complex groups.
Helene provides indispensable support
As an IT services provider in London, we are in a competitive market. One of the biggest differentiators is the people. I may have 25 years of tech experience, but have very little HR and management of people experience.
As I want businesses to outsource their tech to us, I want to practice what I preach and outsource facilitation. And boy, what a good move! Helene takes the time to understand my company’s individual and team issues – and then works through a plan of how to tackle the issues in order for my business to grow: in emotional intelligence, team play and problem ownership.
As we progress through our company journey, Helene provides indispensable support – allowing me to focus on building my company.
There are a few ways Jewell Facilitation can you help you.
Team Development Days
Creating some time and space for your team to focus on itself can provide a real opportunity to open up those important conversations that often get sidelined and to get those team foundations right.
Team development days focus on working together to create a strong sense of collaboration and make sure everyone is on the same page. They will target different aspects of your team, depending on what is most needed. This could include looking at your team purpose, values or identity, ways of working and communication preferences, or dig deeper into challenges around motivation, trust and relationships.
These can be whole days if face to face, or broken down into smaller chunks if done online.
“Well along the route of becoming a stronger more united team”
Helene facilitated a team development session for me at very short notice. She quickly understood our needs for the team development session and the dynamics within the team. Everyone in group engaged well in the session and Helene gained the respect of all the individuals. At the end of the morning the team was well along the route of becoming a stronger more united team. Looking forward to using Helene again to continue the team’s development.
Strategy Sessions
By creating plans that are dynamic and realistic you will have something that can respond the needs of your organisation as it thrives and develops, and embraces change. Involving the right people at the right time to create your strategy and getting them all on board is crucial to making it work.
A participatory strategic planning approach is designed to encourage active participation, teamwork and collaboration. It will help to give the members of your organisation a clear view of what they need to do in the long term by understanding current issues, clarify opportunities and direction, and create strategies for success.
Strategy creation can take time and may involve different people at different stages of its development. Working with a facilitator will enable you to outline the best way to do this and to get the most from the sometimes complex conversations that need to be had to create focused and actionable plans.
“Action points to move our organisation forward”
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 our 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.
Multi – Stakeholder Events and Workshops
Multi-stakeholder events are those that bring together a variety of different people around a certain theme or topic. These may include individuals, representatives from different organisations, or a combination of the two. They probably don’t really know each other. Bringing in a facilitator is crucial to ensure that there is effective participation and that everyone gets the most out of being brought together. I will help people to work together, to have their say, make their contribution and to ask the questions they need to and help make the space feel conducive to doing so.
“Helene was a highly effective event facilitator”
Helene was the virtual facilitator for Cheltenham’s first ever climate change conference – #Cheltenhamzero. Helene added a lot of value and insight as part of the event planning process, which helped shape and inform the overall approach. Helene was a highly effective event facilitator, which contributed to a hugely success event for the Council
Facilitation to “surface needs and support opportunities”
Helene is a hugely talented facilitator, and is open to all types of facilitation depending on what you are trying to achieve. We have used Helene to facilitate two sessions of over 40 people from the charity and tech sector to surface needs and support opportunities. Helene adapts to any group, any venue, and any amount of experimentation! She is just brilliant to work with and highly recommend!
Organisational Development Consulting
My approach to organisational development is one that places facilitation and group process interventions at the heart. By intertwining facilitated sessions and other methodologies, I can support you to make changes at not just a team but an organisational level, focusing on the structure, the culture and the strategies and plans you have in place. Working this way brings everyone on board and encourages alignment and buy-in from your workforce.
How does this work?
