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groupVision is part of a consortium founded by groupVision Switzerland, renowned experts in group facilitation. We create and implement collaborative working environments for a range of industries and the public sector, contributing to more productive meetings and training sessions.

groupVision takes people and organizations to higher levels of performance and achievement. We provide software tools and the expertise to apply them in any type of collaborative working environment. Combined with a clear understanding of your objectives we design interactive and participative methodologies that transform your organization to thrive in the 21st century.

Established in the early 90s our company has acquired a unique expertise in leading products for collaboration. Our in-depth understanding of group processes is based on a distilled experience of more than 15 years in computer support for cooperative learning. No matter your unique challenge, we can advise on a cost effective solution for every group collaboration need and implement it with you.

About groupVision

“groupVision takes people and organizations to higher levels of performance and achievement”

General scope of our services

Online Training For Hosts

90-minute training sessions for up to four participants per session.

Template Design Services

Making best practices available by mouse click across the entire organization.

On-Site Training

Standard or tailored training sessions for up to 12 people. Half or full days.

Workshop Facilitation Support

Enabling and supporting facilitators and practitioners to take their workshop to the next level.

Consulting Services

Helping you plan your MeetingSphere pilot or roll-out, or boosting the efficiency of standard processes by using group communication technology.

Event Support

Everything on how to make your events truly engaging and dynamic.

We can deliver our services on-site, online or in a hybrid format

groupVision delivers its meeting support services to both private and public organizations according to the workshop-in-a-box concept.

Our methodology provides a clear and unique way to identify:

– What are your meeting requirements – How can success be measured – What is necessary to succeed

Our customers can choose the right level of service for their meetings and we have conceived the workshop-in-a-box service to address your needs.

The workshop-in-a-box concept consists of a two-step process:

1. A meeting on meeting, to jointly decide what needs to be accomplished.2. A group facilitator organizes your meeting and if necessary can run the meeting.

With our group facilitation services we create both the collaborative working environment and the collaborative work system that is required to achieve a higher performance.

“Our customers can choose the right level of service for their meetings”

Workshop Facilitation

There are two types of group facilitation:

Basic facilitation – Helps groups learn ground rules and develop ability to self-facilitate most conversations.

Developmental facilitation – Helps groups identify and change deeply held defensive routines and develop skills for leading organizational change and transformation. Developmental facilitation strongly overlaps with organizational development (OD) interventions. OD = systemic and systematic change effort using behavioural sciences knowledge and skills to transform the organization to a new state.

Our services can be delivered within these two intervention modes.

Consulting Services

“Group facilitation is at the core of our professional pratice”

In Basic Facilitation, a group facilitated meeting normally consists of the following stages and steps:

START 1. Analyze: Understand the topic and being clear on what kind of new ideas that must be sought. 2. Formulate: Formulate the right questions.

OPEN 3. Activate: Removing obstacles to creativity and enable the free flow of thoughts and ideas. 4.A Produce: Find large number of new ideas. 4.B Differentiate : Change and improve existing ideas.

DECIDE 5. Select: Selecting the best ideas in a first selection. 6. Refine: Refine and curate ideas in more concrete items. 7. Assess: Rate existing ideas based on different criteria. 8. Prioritize: Differentiate between immediately actionable ideas, ideas for the medium term and for long term. 9. Document: Revision of work done.

TRANSFORM 10. Convert: Implement the best ideas into action.

Event Support

“We create both the collaborative working environment and the collaborative work system for group facilitation”

Once the scope of the meeting is defined along with its objectives a different agenda template can be designed to respond to those objectives.

Our project fees include all the necessary work for assessing the meeting objectives, to design a meeting agenda, to run the meeting and to deliver a report. The fees also include a debriefing session with the meeting owner with suggestions for improvement.

In developmental facilitation we anchor our practice with the use Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) and other organizational development approaches.

SSM is an approach to organizational process modeling (business process modeling) and it can be used both for general problem solving and in the management of change.

Template Design

The EKS ® Strategie is a bottleneck focused strategy by Wolfgang Mewes. It is now part of the of the universe of the EKS Malik Management Zentrum in St. Gallen in Switzerland.

The EKS operates through a series of phases based on concentration of forces, clearly defined targets, go for the gap and in-depth solutions to the prevailing problem. The functional principles of the model can be summarised as follows: Phase 1: Analyse own situation and unique strengths. Phase 2: Determine the most promising market or broader field of endeavour. Phase 3: Analyse the most promising target group. Phase 4: Determine and analyse the most pressing and urgent problem (bottleneck ) of the target group. Phase 5: Develop an innovative strategy focused on this pressing “bottleneck”. Phase 6: Cooperate on solving the bottleneck. Phase 7: Aim consistently at the fundamental needs and behaviour that is required to achieve and retain market leadership.

EKS

Paulo Nunes de Abreu also known as Paul Nunesdea is an organizational psychologist, MSc in Information Management, Ph.D. in Management Science.

Paul optimizes group collaboration to bring around consensus and peer learning in smart communities and high-performance organizations.

He undertakes consultancy and applied research projects with government agencies, municipalities and private companies in close collaboration with consultancy firms such as Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) and Mckinsey & Co.

Jörn Kiewning based in Geneva is a Dipl. Kaufmann.

As a consultant and trainer for communication and personal development he works for international companies in Switzerland, Luxembourg and Germany. His experience is based on several basic methods and concepts like NLP, Transaction Analysis, EKS, gto etc..

As an instructional designer he develops blended content and hybrid materials for learning and collaboration.

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