Considering Co-Facilitation?

It's interesting that one of the themes I am being asked a lot about this winter is around co-facilitation approaches for team and group coaching.

For those of you looking for some tips on how to approach co-facilitation, I want to invite you to take a look back at some of the posts I've written in the past on the topic of co-facilitation here.

Is co-facilitation always essential - No. But co-facilitation brings a number of benefits, especially if:

• Your group of team size is large
• You want to be able to provide altnerative perspectives and voices as facilitators
• You want to ensure that the faciilitation team brings a mix of expertise (prehaps industry experience and/or subject matter experience in addition to facilitation experience)
• You want to provide a variety of styles/approaches

From my experience, one of the most important ingredients to successful co-faciliation work is taking the time upfront (i.e. before you design your work, and before you are in front of a group or team!) to design your own relationship. Many of the posts from 2008 around co-facilitation address this very issue.

What have been the success factors which have led to great co-facilitation work on your part? What are your co-facilitation questions? As always, please feel free to comment below!

Warmly

Jennifer

Jennifer Britton, PCC, CPCC

Group Coaching Essentials

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