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Facilitated workshops is one of the key techniques in DPM. We provide
professional facilitations that can help you facilitating your projects or
other matters where speed matters. See also Facilitated workshops fact
sheet.
A facilitated workshop is a team-based information gathering and decision
making technique designed to accelerate business planning and development.
It is an interactive communication technique involving experienced and
empowered personnel working in one or more sessions run by an independent
facilitator. A workshop is a process to be implemented when there is a
requirement to make decisions, explore ideas and exchange knowledge to solve
a business problem.
Key Benefits
- Speed. By gathering all the relevant stakeholders in a workshop, it is
possible to achieve an agreed set of user requirements, for example, in a
day or two as opposed to weeks or months using traditional methods.
- Ownership. Stakeholders who are part of the group decision-making
process are more likely to be committed to its decisions and to feel a
greater sense of ownership for subsequent development work.
- Productivity. The workshop often benefits from the participants
building on each other’s ideas and gaining a better understanding of each
other’s viewpoint. Often misunderstandings in the business areas can be
swiftly clarified during workshops.
- Consensus. The workshop provides an opportunity for the participants
to discuss relevant subject matters, including the major issues and
problems, with a view to reaching a consensus on all the important
decisions.
- Quality of decision-making. Because stakeholders are active players in
the decision-making process, the levels of confidence and understanding of
the workshop output are likely to be high.
- Overall perspective. Workshop participants can appreciate the
importance of business areas contained within the project but in which
they are not directly involved.
The strength of the facilitated workshop technique is that it enables the
exchange of information between a group of key individuals and enables the
group to reach decisions that are mutually acceptable. A workshop provides a
forum for exchanging views and achieving consensus decisions in a structured
framework across and within areas of the business. Clear deliverables are
produced during the workshops enabling all attendees to review decisions
taken by the group.
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