Workshops & Facilitation

The Action Lab Team

Custom Facilitation

Your organization or community might not need a workshop, but more custom facilitation for all kinds of contexts. From sense making and strategic planning facilitation to co-creating evaluation and learning frameworks we can help custom design facilitation that you need. We will work with you to understand what you and your stakeholders need for a facilitation that is successful.

 

Examples of facilitation we can offer:

  • Strategic planning

  • Generative Board Meeting facilitation

  • Community engagement facilitation around a complex issue

  • Facilitating problem sense making, co-design of system and service innovations

  • Co-developing evaluation frameworks for projects, organizations and systems change making

  • Facilitating a custom event that strengthens relationships and alignment of teams and/or stakeholders

  • Custom facilitation

Workshops

We have a network of people with expertise in guiding visioning, strategic planning, world cafes, human centered service design thinking, and creative problem solving. In addition, a member of the Action Lab team is one of the few people in western Canada certified to guide LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® strategy sessions.

 

Examples of workshops we can offer:

  • Introduction to Social Innovation - Think Jar Collective course that is also part of Macewan University of Mount Royal University

  • Custom Strategic Planning Workshop

  • Culture and tools of disciplined innovation practice

  • Understanding your team’s individual problem solving styles and how they work together using the Basadur Innovation Profile

  • Human Centered Service Design Thinking

  • Principles of Collective Impact

  • Creating diverse and creative workplaces

  • Supporting the engaged citizenship of people with disabilities

  • LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Strategic Planning workshops

  • Being, Belonging, Becoming: Supporting Quality of Life

 
Lisi Heise, General Supervisor, Development Services Urban Planning & Economy - City of Edmonton, says:

“Action Lab is such an important space to our city - and to the design of public sector services. Skills Society's Action Lab team has guided me through the development of critical services for Edmontonians, ensuring that citizen's experiences and perspectives are at the heart of everything we do.”