Your workshops generate energy. They rarely generate decisions.
Everyone has sat through it. The two-day offsite that felt excellent and changed nothing. The strategy session that ended with “let’s take this offline”. The town hall where the loudest voice quietly won.
The difference between a meeting that moves an organisation and one that simply consumes it is almost always facilitation.
How the offsite felt
- Energised
- Everyone was heard
- Decisions taken
- Difficult topics raised
- Two days well spent
What it produced
- Flip charts and photographs
- The most senior voice spoke first
- Reopened three weeks later
- In the corridor afterwards
- “Let’s take this offline”
Tick the ones you recognise
The most expensive room in your organisation is the one with all your senior leaders in it. It deserves to be run well.
Nothing is stored or sent. It is just for you.What it costs to leave this alone
Poor facilitation is invisible on any budget line, and enormously expensive.
- Senior leadership time is consumed without a decision to show for it.Your most costly resource, spent.
- Decisions without genuine buy-in unravel during execution.And get blamed on execution.
- The organisation learns that speaking up doesn’t change anything.And stops.
- Internal capability stays dependent on external consultants.Permanently.
- The best thinking in the room never becomes action outside it.The gap between the offsite and Monday.
- Conflict stays unresolved.There is no safe, structured process to surface it.
Facilitation is a craft. It can be built inside your own people.
60 Bits was founded on this craft. Shyam and Kala are Certified Professional Facilitators (CPF) from the International Association of Facilitators.
We facilitate high-stakes sessions for clients, and through our LEAF certification programme we build that capability inside your organisation, so eventually you stop needing us for it. That has always been the point.
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Learn
DiscoveryCore facilitation process, tools and mindset, taught the way we facilitate - which is to say without slide decks.
ProcessToolsMindset - 2
Practise
DesignLive practice with structured observation and feedback. The skill is only built by doing it badly first, safely.
Live practiceObservationFeedback - 3
Certify
DesignAssessment against professional facilitation standards through the LEAF certification.
LEAF certificationProfessional standards - 4
Apply
DeliverSupported facilitation of real sessions in your organisation, with us in the room until you don’t need us there.
Real sessionsUs in the room - 5
Community
DeliverAn ongoing practitioner network, so the skill keeps developing after the certificate is issued.
Practitioner network
Solutions we typically recommend
Rarely all six. Usually two or three, in this order.
Certify
The craft, inside your peopleLEAF certified facilitation skills workshop
Our flagship certification for internal facilitators, HR professionals and leaders.
Internal facilitator development
Building a bench of skilled facilitators inside your organisation.
Let’s talk about the rooms where your decisions happen
Tell us about the session that didn’t land, or the one coming up that has to. 45 minutes, no obligation.