Annual Development Review Facilitator (voluntary)

Contact: Fred Bell

Role of Facilitators

Overview

The role of the Facilitator is to ensure that the Review meeting takes place in a spirit of support and development and results in relevant and achievable outcomes that are agreed and recorded.

Detail

Facilitators must have undergone the training before they take up the role. Any appointment is subject to satisfactory training.

They should also be in complete sympathy with the aims and objectives of the ADR, designed for the continuing development of Ministers and be a good advocate for the whole process.

Facilitators will normally be available for a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 6 years. They must also be willing to remain with any one Minister for a minimum of 3 years.

The Facilitator will

  • work outside of their own circuit.
  • ensure that the review takes place within the agreed timescales
  • hold a copy of the agreed outcomes from the previous year (after the first year)
  • in the second and subsequent years agree with the minister and the reviewers the scope of the review in the light of the previous year?s outcomes and any changes in the local situation.
  • facilitate the meeting.
  • receive the reflections from Minister and Reviewers and send out copies as appropriate to the Minister and Reviewers
  • prepare an agenda for the Review
  • clarify with the Minister if they are willing for email to be used as the means of communication.
  • finalise the agreed outcomes at the end of the Review meeting
  • reflect on the value of Review for the Minister and the part played by the Reviewers and themselves.

At the end of the Review, Facilitators will be given the opportunity to comment on the Review.....

Facilitators may be lay or ordained (in active work or supernumerary); it is the skills of the individual that is important, not their status. However the ordained will be required to undergo the training for Facilitators.

The Skills, Abilities and Qualities of a Facilitator

We envisage that the person will have the following skills, abilities and qualities:

  • effective facilitation skills
  • be a well organised administrator
  • be an able chair
  • a well developed sense of fairness and commitment to confidentiality
  • able to conduct the Review Meeting
  • capacity to identify, summarise and record outcomes
  • handle information sensitively
  • inspire trust
  • good listening skills