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Managing Large group in LSI

As the name suggests LSI -large scale intervention - is where large no. of people of an organization come together, becomes a part of an intervention and work to achieve an objective. One of the big issues in an LSI is managing big groups and directing them to focus on a single objective. If you will not be able to handle such groups successfully, your whole design and plan of the intervention will go in vain.

As i was mentioned in my last post i was attending Facilitation workshop. After 2,3 days of completion of the workshop, when i was not in the pressure of attending the workshop or getting evaluated for the course, i started thinking of the topic and i realized its one of the most important tool to handle big groups. It is a way to give the members the control of their own group, help them manage themselves. 

The two important points that i learned from the workshop, which is the core beliefs of facilitation, are 
a. Trust the group. &
b. Encourage the group wisdom.

If you can manage to remember these two principles and help the group to assimilate the two points, the group will manage themselves alone. Facilitators just need to help the group to align with the objectives of the interventions only.

There is a frame work in the facilitation which is called Content- Process framework, in which when you move from high content,low process to high process,low content, you are actually facilitating the group. When you are completely process driven and less content driven, you are trusting the group wisdom, you are helping the group to understand that the group knows everything and it has all the solutions of the issue. When the solutions came from the group members itself, the solution or change will be feasible,sustainable and easily understandable to every employee of the organization.

I have realized that facilitation is a very powerful tool for a group process and you need to do a lot of work before facilitating a process to successfully facilitate the group.It can produce results and full fill objectives. I realized that to full fill the objective of large scale intervention, the most important tool is facilitation. It helps the large groups to work in synergy and achieve the outcomes of the intervention. 

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