Facilitation Asset Assessment

This survey is being sent under the auspices of the Organizational Development for California State Government (OD4CA).  OD4CA is an in-state service organization dedicated to bringing innovative practices into California State government.  The survey is part of a larger project being led by the OD4CA to expand facilitation competencies throughout the California state government workforce.
 
Facilitation is a process whereby a skilled professional (i.e., the facilitator) leads or guides a group through an exploratory process to achieve some stated group objective(s).  Having more facilitators in state service is seen as a key catalyst to transforming California State Government into a highly productive institution.

This survey will establish a “baseline” assessment of the understanding and use of facilitation services in California State Government.  It will be very useful in creating and executing strategies and tactics with the objective of enhancing facilitation skills at all levels of state government.  This is seen a vital to advancing California State Government while reducing costs (i.e., using internal resources).

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* 1. Name of your organization:

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* 2. Does your organization have a designated facilitation team?

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* 3. Does your organization have designated facilitation staff?

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* 4. Does your organization have any positions that include facilitation/collaboration/mediation in the job title?

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* 5. Are there staff within your organization that often do facilitation, although it is not on their formal job titles?

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* 6. For employees that do facilitation, is that use of their time reflected in their duty statement?

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* 7. Does your organization have facilitation training for employees?

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* 8. If there were state facilitators available, would your agency like to use these services in your agency's processes?

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* 9. Does the executive management of your organization support using facilitation?

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* 10. To your knowledge, does your organization have internal processes that would reach better outcomes with facilitation, if facilitation were available?

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* 11. Does your organization have external public processes that would reach better outcomes with facilitation, if facilitation were available?

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* 12. Have employees of your organization participated in a facilitated process as part of their work?

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* 13. If the State had facilitation services, how would you see these services being used?

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* 14. If the State had facilitation services, what groups or programs in your organization would be likely to use them?

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* 15. Do you have any other suggestions or information we can use to expand the State's use of facilitation?

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