Consulting · Workshops & large groups

Experienced workshop facilitators – for efficient workshops

Are you looking for experienced workshop facilitators, or facilitators for your retreat, on the topics of strategy, change and transformation? Do you want to involve your employees, implement change projects efficiently, draw up action plans together, shape the future together with your employees and managers? Here you will find experienced and excellently trained workshop facilitators for your

Our Offer in Facilitating Workshops and Retreats

Online / virtual and "traditional" as in-person workshops

We also offer all our workshops as online workshops or virtual retreats.

Facilitation of Workshops with an Effective Approach

In our workshops, we use highly effective methods. You get:

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    a well-considered workshop design that is tailored to your needs and objectives

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    individually and carefully selected methods, so that you reach your objectives within the time available

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    activating arrangements and new methods, so that thinking together is enjoyable

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    a varied workshop design that involves all participants and, through intelligent choice of methods, ensures that everyone takes an active part.

Special Formats

Special workshops are available for some particularly challenging situations in the team:

  • to rebuild a team, for example after a change of managing director or when particularly large challenges have to be mastered: Team facilitation
  • to address hidden or open, escalated or smouldering conflicts in the team, so that bound energies are freed up again and working becomes more enjoyable for all directly and indirectly involved: Conflict mediation

Our approach

  1. We listen. To understand what this is about for you: history, context, the quality of result you want, what you plan to do with the results, how they feed into your regular processes.
  2. We set objectives. … together with you. So that all sides know exactly what is to be achieved – and what can be.
  3. We design an activating and efficient workshop. … So that the agreed objectives are reached in the time available.
  4. We always have a “plan B” in our pocket We stay flexible in facilitating the workshop and respond to changed requirements with a sure touch and a great deal of experience.
  5. We take care of things … on request that includes infrastructure, materials, catering and so on (full service – if that is what you want).

Our Workshop Facilitators

Our workshop facilitators are

change managers and organisational developers
with a solid theoretical grounding
experienced consultants
with a toolkit full of varied and activating workshop methods
have completed several systemic consultant training programmes
and so have a broad theoretical grounding
are analytically strong practitioners
with many years of professional experience
are specialists
in their respective fields

Profiles of our Workshop Facilitators

Günther Grassmann, consultant
Günther Grassmann Managing consultant. Strategy development, workshop facilitation, large-group events, regional development.
Albrecht Schürhoff, initio consultant
Albrecht Schürhoff Senior consultant. Areas of work: strategy development, change management, leadership development, organisational development, commercial mediation.
Florian Grolman, initio managing consultant
Florian Grolman Managing consultant. Areas of work: strategy development, change management, organisational consulting and organisational development, Team Development, leadership training, mission statement and values development.
Katja Reuter, consultant at initio
Katja Reuter Areas of work: leadership training and development, introducing objective-setting and feedback systems, Team Development, conflict mediation, mission statement and values development, designing and facilitating workshops and large-group events, coa…
Photo of Michaela Scheller, senior consultant
Michaela Scheller Senior consultant. Areas of work: change management, strategy development, culture change, organisational design, self-organisation in teams, client focus, Team Development.
Philip Dönhoff - initio consultant
Philip Dönhoff Partner, management consultant and coach. Areas of work: strategy development, change management and transformation, organisational development, conflict prevention and crisis management, individual, team and project coaching, business model development. …
Sandro Küng initio
Sandro Küng Focus areas: organisational development, change management, digital transformation, Team Development & team coaching, business coaching, corporate culture, corporate communications

Our workshop designs are characterised by

  • Intensive preparation – on content, method and logistics
  • we tune the workshop design individually to your objectives and needs
  • effective, varied and powerful workshop methods
  • professional workshop design and didactic dramaturgy
  • a facilitation climate that is friendly to innovation
  • immediate and lasting activation of all participants
  • good time management
  • a well-developed visualisation of the discussions
  • from experienced workshop facilitators who keep training and take regular supervision
  • a mix of consulting and facilitation at the same time
  • a detailed photo record of the results shortly after the event ends
  • we always keep an eye on the group process
  • we work with disruptions, conflicts, resistance and crises and put them to productive use as the process goes on

Conception of our workshops

As Experienced Facilitators, We Rely on

  • activating workshop methods
  • plenty of "movement" in the mind, but physically too (you can read why this matters here in Workshop methods)
  • a high level of interaction among everyone involved
  • structured extraction of participants' experience and knowledge
  • Generating a measurable gain in knowledge for the whole group
  • plenty of room to exchange experience in plenary and to benefit from the knowledge of others
  • activating group exercises to make the material your own, where that is needed
Workshop facilitator facilitation
Effective Workshop Designs, Powerful Methods from Experienced Workshop Facilitators

Workshop Facilitators as Consultants: Blend of Facilitation and Consulting

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To prepare workshops we hold detailed preliminary conversations, not only with the client but where possible with other members of the team as well. That matters, because it gives us a full picture of the problem and of the needs within the group.

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With this input we work out a workshop design agreed with you and tuned to your needs.

03

In our work as facilitators and consultants we always keep an impartial stance and make sure that all the essential perspectives and aspects can be voiced.

Your benefits

Saves time and budget

You are guaranteed to reach your objectives in the time available

Quick implementation

… through a strong boost to motivation: little is more motivating than setting goals together and then delivering them together

Existing knowledge is put to best use

All participants contribute actively and with enthusiasm

Gain in knowledge

Activating arrangements connect knowledge and experience anew in the brain, so that new knowledge and new insights can emerge

High resilience

Solving strategically important questions about the future in shared workshops strengthens your organisation far beyond the workshop itself

Efficiency

We have proven methods – you reach the objectives agreed beforehand

Security

Even in the most difficult situations we always have a “plan B” in our pocket

Our customers value us for the following

the systemic approach

Effects usually have several causes. To achieve lasting change, looking at individual factors is rarely enough.

the “art of the good question”

Questions suited to the situation, some of them thought “outside the box”, which open up new perspectives and move the group's understanding forward.

the ability to reflect back what is happening in the group

resistance, structures, mechanisms, hidden connections…

well-judged leadership

In groups there is usually a great deal of knowledge and experience gathered – but sometimes it takes an impulse and good timing to lead discussions onto new "fertile ground".

consistent visualisation

So that everyone knows the state of play at any time

varied methods

A varied programme, judged to the situation, wakes tired minds and lifts the overall energy of a group.

A feel for things

For what lies between the lines and was not said.

the detailed photo record

shortly after the event ends.

What our clients say

What clients say about working with us

A very helpful, well-run workshop. The results served us well through the restructuring phase too.
Andreas Kogler Andreas Kogler Deutsche Telekom AG
The strategy workshop was exceptionally productive. You kept the group focused on what mattered throughout. We recommend your facilitation without reservation.
S. Folke S. Folke Head of Procurement BASF
It was striking how much came out of our workshop. That was outstanding.
Jörg Graichen Jörg Graichen Brose Fahrzeugteile
Many thanks again for the excellent collaboration, the organisation and the very good workshop results.
Jan-Michael Wolfer Jan-Michael Wolfer Head of Production voestalpine Automotive
I am very happy with the consulting. The workshop moved us a long way forward. Thank you.
Marc Schumacher Marc Schumacher Head of Marketing momox AG
You prepared our workshop thoroughly and precisely. Both the method and the facilitation fitted our objectives very well. We were able to carry on working very successfully with the results. Many thanks.
Hans Helmreich Hans Helmreich Head of Division Bayerischer Rundfunk
Four days of workshop and still playful, creative, inspiring and well structured, with good methodology. Thoroughly recommended.
Dr. Siegfried Gelbhaar Dr. Siegfried Gelbhaar Head of Event Management Deutscher Bundestag
Thanks again for the excellent workshop — we have already started putting the first ideas into practice, and enjoying it.
Eva-Maria Bauer Eva-Maria Bauer Human Resources Generalist Dywidag AG
I thoroughly enjoyed working with you, personally and professionally, and it was a great pleasure to run this workshop with you.
Eva Sprengard Eva Sprengard Adviser, HR, Organisation and Knowledge Management Deutsches Evaluierungsinstitut der. Entwicklungszusammenarbeit gGmbH
You facilitated our two-day strategy workshop very professionally. It was a demanding brief and the result is very good. Thank you for that.
Alfred Riester Alfred Riester Managing Director motio consulting
A big thank you for facilitating the workshop. We came out of the day as a team, with a good sense of togetherness and a clearer picture of the way ahead. The workshop was well worth it.
Johannes Becker Johannes Becker Learning and Development NRW.Energy4Climate GmbH
Thanks again for the excellent workshop — we are very happy with the outcome.
Marie Grober Marie Grober CEO Snack Attack

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