Facilitate-It-Yourself – or FIY – was created specifically to support big-brained, under-resourced professionals tasked with facilitating high-impact processes in their organisations. Whether you are a member of a corporate team or a volunteer in a non-profit, you will no doubt be asked by a manager at some point (because you are smart and ´there´) to facilitate a workshop or process to support creative and effective decision-making, team-building or culture-building.
But you may not have done it before, and you may not have the budget to hire (expensive) external consultants. The good news is that you don´t need to. FIY - a team of (expensive) expert consultants - is here to share what they have learned with you. We´ll help you learn the tricks of the trade quickly and cheaply, with a library of methods and tools you can absorb, master and tailor to suit your needs.
CEO
Global home furnishings business
"Only a few months later, I am so excited to see not only that our new vision statement has sunk into our everyday conversations, but more importantly that the commitment to our commonly defined future has become a foundation for our decision-making."
Introducing
Facilitate-It-Yourself
We are experts in helping companies transform teams and organisations. At the heart of every job we have ever done is bringing people together to learn something new and agreeing to do something about it.
We have facilitated it all, helping leaders in some of the world´s biggest companies:
agree powerful vision or mission statements
define desired values and associated behaviours
rapidly learn about disruption and change in the external world and market
align on a new strategic direction
evolve innovative value propositions
identify root causes to problems that won´t die
break down silos and identify collaborative ways of working
build trust with and empathy for each other
We know that not everyone can hire consultants like us. But we know from experience that organisations have within their ranks hyper-intelligent, capable people who learn quickly and therefore get asked to do stuff they have not been trained in.
So we put together this low-cost toolkit summarising our hard-won learning, in the hope that it can help you
Facilitate-It-Yourself
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Change management consultancies can cost up to 3000 EUR per day. They often use tools and approaches that may not fit with the culture of your organisation and are not set up to tailor them to meet your needs. Good news! With the FIY Guide Library you can dispense with the consultants but get access to world-class, field-tested tools that you can tweak for your use.
The FIY team has long experience not only as facilitators but also as trainers of first-time facilitators. The Facilitator Guides in the FIY Guide Library draw on this experience. In addition to packing a lot of knowledge into a small price you can typically get your company to cover, they present both facilitation basics and more specialised tools and frameworks - all without the fluff.
Businesses are good at providing goods and services to their customers. All their skill and energy goes here, and rightly so. They are typically not so good at running internal processes and meetings to support change. The meetings can be unfocused and too nicey-nicey without the structure to do the required job. The FIY Guide Library will empower you to design sharp, efficient, fun group processes that convert your team´s genius into actual solutions that stick.
If you work in a smaller organisation, chances are there isn´t a big budget for your development. The FIY Guide Library will not only help you get the job done for your organisation - you´ll walk away with some tools we promise you´ll use and build on throughout your career. Remember: whoever designs the meeting steers the agenda.
With the bundle, you gain immediate access to invaluable resources on how to deliver an outstanding workshop or process for your organisation while avoiding eye-watering consultancy fees. For a limited time, grab this package for a price your company will likely cover through discretionary spend.
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GUIDE 1: Brilliant Facilitation 101 - €47 Value
The success of a session depends fundamentally on how you as a facilitator are able to unleash the collaborative genius of your participants. This FIY Guide offers rarely seen tips on how to show up authentically and powerfully, without taking up all the oxygen in the room.
GUIDE 2: How To Design, Run and Plan An Awesome Workshop - €67 Value
From defining what change in behaviour or outlook you want your workshop to achieve, to planning the minute-by-minute flow of the session, this FIY Guide will support you from inception to tying it all up in a way that helps change stick.
GUIDE 3: Systems-Mapping Made Practical And Business-Relevant - €87 Value
Systems-mapping is often made way too academic for business leaders, but done right it is a crazy helpful tool for building learning and alignment while navigating through complexity - whether that is unearthing root causes of persistent organisational problems; mapping pathways to collaboration across silos; or identifying creative solutions to what are called ´wicked problems´.
WHAT IS IN THE PIPELINE? The FIY team are working hard on another suite of FIY Guides. Our aim is to offer a comprehensive library of affordable, high-impact guides to would-be facilitators. Next up:
Backcasting: This FIY Guide will teach you a highly engaging and effective technique for helping a group agree on root causes and identify solutions that actually address these root causes
Strategic Mindsets: This FIY Guide will share a model we have developed that can help you interrupt short-termism and unlock more strategic thinking in your team
Strategic Beliefs: This FIY Guide will show you how to carry out one of our most powerful exercises - helping a leadership team build a shared view of its company´s strategic context (a vital step most companies miss in their strategic planning)
GET €197 WORTH FOR JUST €97: Get our first three FIY Guides for just €97. If you make use of this limited-time offer, you´ll also get a discount on our next three Guides, which will be ready shortly!
Right after your purchase, you'll receive the link to the FIY Guide Library, where you'll get immediate access to our first three FIY Guides. If you take advantage of our limited-time offer, as a big thank you we´ll throw in a discount on the next three Guides.
Part 1: What is your role as a facilitator and what sets brilliant ones apart from not-so-good ones?
Part 2: Seven principles of high-impact facilitation - from dealing with difficult participants to leveraging the power of silence
Part 3: Tips from our in-house facilitation ninjas
Part 1: The Holy Quadrinity of Meeting-Spaces: the four factors that underpin exceptional meetings
Part 2: Define your ambition and sub-objectives
Part 3: Make your participant engagement plan
Part 4: Create your minute-by-minute session flow
Part 5: Build your meeting deck and worksheets
Part 6: Your tech cheatsheet
Bonus: How to book and brief an external speaker
Part 1: What is systems-mapping and how can it help you break down silos, unlock complex problems and create innovative solutions?
Part 2: The academic foundations demystified - key terms you´ll need
Part 3: Systems-mapping broken down into six steps
Part 3: Examples and ready-to-go templates
Part 4: Trouble-shooting - what to do if...?
For a limited time you can purchase our first three FIY Facilitator Guides for just $97 - a teeny-tiny drop in the ocean compared to what even the cheapest of external facilitators would cost.
If you snag this deal within this period, you´ll get a discount on the next three Guides (which are under construction).
You can email us at [email protected] at any time to get help (or let us know what Guides you would like to see in future). We promise that a real-life human will respond promptly and with care!
The FIY Guides will walk you through the basics of facilitation before offering a suite of specialised tools and approaches you can use to facilitate any kind of change in your organisation. Each Guide will include key terms and concepts you need to know, step-by-step instructions, and templates and/or example worksheets you can use immediately. Our intent is to build a comprehensive library of guides to support you as you evolve your facilitation practice - at a price-point that your organisation can typically cover without laborious approval processes.
From being embedded in a range of companies over the past decades, we have come across loads of people like you - the smart, resourceful team members who always get asked to do the thing that no one else knows how to do. And you always find way to ´figure it out´. We are here to make that easier, by summarising our years of facilitation in a library of field-tested, easy-to-use guides.
Not at all! The whole idea here is that the Guides are inexpensive enough to simply be expensed as discretionary spend.
Because they are based on real-life experience working with business leaders. While these approaches are absolutely rooted in many academically-developed frameworks, we have learned the hard way how to tailor these frameworks so that they resonate with time-poor leaders who have been trained, and are incentivised, to execute on what they already know. Google can´t teach you that.
The FIY Guides have been created by a team of practising consultants and advisors with decades of combined experience supporting C-suite leaders in some of the world´s biggest brands. We are specialists in supporting transformation.
Most likely YES! Our strategy is to offer you outstanding facilitation support tools at a price you should be able to expense to your company or organisation. But do check with your manager first!
Great question! In most countries self-development books, learning materials and courses are well within what is permissible as a business expense. We´ll automatically send you a receipt that will work with your accountancy processes.
While we can’t offer refunds, we’re confident in the value-for-money the FIY Guides will give you. We know, because we´ve used them all ourselves - over many decades of consulting with some of the world´s largest brands! But we absolutely want your feedback as well as your requests and ideas for new guides. Please send any praise, asks or suggested improvements to [email protected]. A real-life member of our team will respond promptly - we promise!
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