Facilitating Organisations Meet Today’s Challenges
In this time of unprecedented economic turmoil and uncertainty organisations are struggling to cope – they are too close to their problems, perhaps too tied to existing strategies to make the creative shifts that are now necessary for their survival and growth. May Day facilitates organisational groups, staff & management teams achieve breakthroughs in their thinking that they find impossible on their own. As skilled independent facilitators, we can help them reach desired results with the minimum delay and cost.
May Day Facilitation is an extremely effective process for:
- Developing new strategies - giving teams space for strategic thinking
- Getting collective “buy-in” to new strategies, plans and policies
- Resolving conflict within and across teams & building trust
- Marketing Action Planning – generating & evaluating ideas for new promotions
- Innovation - generating ideas for new products and services
- Project Management – helping cross-functional teams come together quickly & become effective
- Finding creative solutions to seemingly intractable problems
- Annual General Meetings - providing open forums for many different views and opinions to be safely expressed and debated
- Conference break-out sessions - maximising delegates’ opportunity for high quality discussion and debate
- Facilitating the AGM of a national hospitality marketing co-operative- our facilitation allowed members voice their individual concerns and viewpoints within a structured debate. The outcome was full membership agreement on the future development strategy for the co-operative - a win-win for all! Ireland’s Blue Book
- Facilitating a traditional retail chain, with long established norms and rituals, to adopt new ways of doing business in the current difficult market environment
- Facilitating the East Cork towns of Cobh, Midleton and Youghal to devise and agree a 5-year tourism strategy for East Cork. Over 200 tourism product providers were involved in the 9-month facilitation process! East Cork Tourism.com
- Facilitating a local authority present its draft development strategy to the community sector and take on board their comments in an open, constructive forum
- Facilitating a business membership group make a paradigm shift from being controlled by a few to wider membership participation
- Facilitating a middle management and supervisory team of a major utility examine ways to improve employee involvement in decision making
- Facilitating a task team from an Enterprise Board to devise a 3 Year Innovative Strategy for their organisation in just 4 weeks!
Examples of our successful facilitation contributions include:
To find out more Call +353 87 258 3325 or email padraig@maydaymanagement.ie