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Creative Learning Solutions (CLS) offers large and small group facilitation for leadership and management teams, cross-functional teams, work groups, or problem-solving teams. We work with any gathering of people in your organization that has decisions to make and/or that wants to work together in a timely, cooperative, effective way. Some examples:
- CLS can help a new leadership, management, work group, or problem-solving team lay the foundation for its work together: vision, mission, strategies, goals, tasks, roles, expectations, ground rules for communication and decision-making, boundaries, evaluation, accountability, etc.
- CLS facilitators work with teams or groups that are integrating new members, whether because of a change in personnel, new problem-solving strategies, or a merger or acquisition.
- CLS facilitation can add value for any team, group, conference, or retreat that has key decisions to make or conflicts to resolve; or that is designing or carrying out a new business direction, strategy, methodology, vision, mission, or set of goals or operating procedures.
- CLS facilitators can work with groups over time to help them make steady progress toward their desired outcomes.
Using our expertise in facilitation, results go beyond the specific goals of the meeting(s). They include strengthened work relationships and tools for increased employee collaboration and productivity that live on in the workplace long after the meeting or retreat.
Here’s what a client says about our facilitation services:
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Sheella Mierson facilitated a retreat for our group recently and she was just the right person! For some years we had been mired in lack of communication, miscommunication, and strife. Our monthly meetings could only keep up with current business. To tackle a backlog of long-term decisions we decided to have a day-long retreat and bring in an outside facilitator.
Sheella planned carefully for the meeting with input from us, and gave careful thought to priorities. The retreat day was actually fun and the time flew by. I think we were all surprised by how much we got done. I said at the end of the meeting that I felt better about this group than I had in years. As it became increasingly clear that day that we all cared deeply about the program and that we were committed to having it succeed, we built trust. And now we have goals and a plan to accomplish them. But we have more than that—we also learned some tools that day to be more effective and to cooperate more closely in reaching our goals. We’ve been making good progress since the meeting. We’ve already accomplished the first major goal that we set, and our continuing meetings are more frequent and significantly more productive than before the retreat.
Sheella is a skilled facilitator. She kept us moving and focused and engaged. We each got to contribute our thinking throughout the day and together came up with new ideas—refreshing! I highly recommend her.
-Elizabeth Lieux, Ph.D., R.D., Associate Professor,
Department of Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, University of Delaware
Department of Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences, University of Delaware
