In 1978, JAD was created – it introduced structured facilitation.

In 1985, Gary created FAST – a revolution from JAD.

Until now, facilitation techniques have been either about structure or about group dynamics.

In 2007, Gary created – FoCuSeD™– a revolution from FAST.

FoCuSeD™ defines the seamless integration of process and group dynamics expanding processes to cover any group activity applicable in business and in life. You must proactively plan the emotional group cycle along with the workshop process to build a product - one without the other is fruitless. This is the essence of FoCuSeD™.

“Stop looking for solutions – when you’re FoCuSeD™, you find them.” - Gary Rush, CPF

The FoCuSeD™ Facilitator Academy

FoCuSeD™ On...

The FoCuSeD™ Facilitator Guide

As a Facilitator, Gary knows that the process to build a product is not what drives the workshop; in fact, it is often easy to determine. You must seamlessly integrate it with the emotional group cycle or it is not fruitful because the emotional group cycles usually drive the overall workshop process. The workshop process and emotional group cycle must be planned to evolve in parallel. The overall process design must be holistic. It is not sufficient to select a workshop agenda and then insert exercises in different areas and hope that it works. FoCuSeD™ - 1st Holistic Facilitation Technique.

FoCuSeD™ – Facilitation of Collaborative useful Solutions embracing Diversity

• Facilitation is about Collaboration and applies in all areas in business and in life – anytime a group of people needs to work together, make a decision, solve a problem, or complete a task – they need to Collaborate.

• In every workshop, there are always two parallel developments occurring – the workshop process to build a product and the development of the emotional group cycle. Both must be holistically and simultaneously planned and managed by the Facilitator to achieve useful Solutions.

• Facilitation embraces Diversity. The Facilitator is the instrument of and director for collaboration of diverse people. Successful Facilitators embrace Diversity and understand what is required to bring a group together and reach consensus.

FoCuSeD™ – a revolution in structured facilitation. It's the future of Facilitation.

The illustration below shows that you must proactively plan the emotional group cycle along with the workshop process to build a product. One without the other is fruitless.

FoCuSeD™ Expands, Enables, and Guides Alumni often tell us how much Gary's class has changed their lives. The skills they learned in our class helped them become successful Facilitators, improve productivity at work, and become Collaborative Leaders.
FoCuSeD™ expands the use of facilitated workshops to: Strategic Planning Business Process Re-engineering Analysis and Design using any Methodology Requirements-gathering Business Analysis Organizational Design Project Planning Project Management Business issues requiring group decision making Team building Problem Solving Decision-making Facilitating Innovation Product Ideation Data Modeling Process Modeling Any activity in business and in life.
FoCuSeD™ enables using facilitated workshops in any information gathering activity. Using FoCuSeD™ results in: 20% to 40% reduction in effort required to gather information. Enhanced communication between all parties involved. Increased quality - fewer mistakes and changes down the road. More complete, consensus-based information. Increased Collaboration.   A facilitated workshop produces 8 weeks of requirements gathering work in a 3-day workshop. Translated into dollars and cents, this means reducing the time to complete projects to one-fourth the time. If a Business Analyst makes $70,000 per year, then 8 weeks of requirements gathering costs $10,769. Using a 3-day facilitated workshop, the cost is $807. That means that using a 3-day workshop for requirements gathering saves over $9,961 for the one Business Analyst. When you include the actual number of Business Analysts along with the clients involved during the 8 weeks to gather requirements, the savings are even greater. The requirements gathering phase of an IT project is typically one-third the effort. That means that gathering requirements for a $1 million project costs $333,000. Using facilitated workshops to gather requirements cuts the time to one-fourth, saving almost $250,000. That amounts to one-fourth the cost of the entire project - just for requirements gathering. In addition, because the requirements are consensus-based and more complete, development time is reduced and quality increases adding to the savings. At a competitive price, our FoCuSeD™ training pays for itself, in improved productivity and quality.
FoCuSeD™ guides you enabling you to plan the emotional group cycle along with the workshop process to build a product.

The FoCuSeD™ Facilitator Academy

Gary Rush's 5-day highly interactive class teaches the "how to" with an understanding of the "why" to perform as an effective Facilitator. It is the most complete, most comprehensive, and most effective facilitation class available providing detailed training on the concepts of Holistic Facilitation. It helps build your skills and confidence. Read more...

FoCuSeD™ On...

Gary Rush's 3-day highly interactive class teaches "how to" successfully use facilitative skills and tools necessary to drive the overall business management strategy into the product solutions so needed for business success - achieving support and commitment from their stakeholders. Read more...

The FoCuSeD™ Facilitator Guide by Gary Rush, CPF

A radical departure from previous work. A comprehensive reference manual in which Gary shares his step-by-step process so that students can replicate his practices. It consists of 5 Books containing 24 Chapters covering:

• The Essence of Facilitation
• Facilitating People
• Managing Process
• Managing Projects
• Reference

 

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