Facilitation (organisational)

Facilitation in business, organizational development and consensus decision-making refers to the process of designing and running a meeting according to a previously agreed set of requirements.[1]

Facilitation concerns itself with all the tasks needed to reach a productive and impartial meeting outcome that reflects the agreed objectives and deliverables defined upfront by the meeting owner or client.[2]

Facilitation involves leading a meeting on behalf of someone else. This is what distinguishes it from meeting science, which aims to develop the autonomy of meeting initiators and leaders. Nonetheless, facilitation applies many concepts and tools widely used in meeting science such as icebreakers.

  1. ^ Strauss, David (2002): How to make collaboration work. SF, BK Publishers.
  2. ^ Schwarz, Roger et al. (2011): The Skilled Facilitator: A Comprehensive Resource for Consultants, Facilitators, Managers, Trainers, and Coaches, Willey.