Southeast Association of Facilitators

The 2007 SEAF Awards Program

September 20, 2007

The SEAF Board of Directors is proud to announce the 2007 SEAF Awards Program. In keeping with our mission, our awards program has been created to:

q Recognize excellence in facilitation practices

q Promote awareness of the role of facilitation in achieving results

q Reward the use of facilitation within organizations and our communities

q Acknowledge outstanding contributions by SEAF members

q Promote SEAF as a vehicle for advancing facilitation skills

The Awards Program represents your chance to recognize both clients and facilitators for their outstanding use of facilitation to achieve results. The award also recognizes the partnership that facilitators and clients must develop to improve the organization.

q The Facilitation Impact Awards, for excellence in achieving impact through facilitation, will be given to each client and the corresponding facilitator at the following levels of achievement:

Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Honorable Mention

Awards are based on standardized criteria. There can be multiple winners or no winners at a particular award level.

q The Facilitator of the Year Award will be given to the SEAF member who most advances the field of facilitation through such activities as innovative practices, participation in the industry, publications, etc.

q The President’s Award will be presented by our Board President to the SEAF member who demonstrates contributions to the association that go “above and beyond the call of duty.”

Guidelines:

q To qualify, the client must be based in the region served by SEAF: Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

q A client or a facilitator may be included in only one submission. Self-nominations are encouraged. The President’s Award is excluded from the nominations process.

q The facilitated project must have started, finished or had significant activity during the eighteen months prior to the submission deadline.

If you have a client that you would like to see acknowledged, or if you have facilitated a particularly unique or innovative session, please contact Johnny Wright, Vice President Awards and Recognition (wrightj@inpo.org or 770.644.8638). A panel of judges will review all award submissions and select winners based on the information submitted as compared against the judging criteria. Submittal forms are at the following links:

Facilitation Impact Awards Application

Facilitator of the Year Application

To help you get started please start gathering information in these areas:

• A description of the project and how facilitation improved or benefited the organization.
• A summary of the pre- and post project evaluation or assessment methods used.
• The stakeholders chart or plan that shows who was involved in the project.
• A description of the steps taken to maintain a strong relationship with the client.
• The process used in developing the Session Plan.
• A description of the facilitation approaches used during the project.
• Key Learnings attained during the facilitation process.

The following schedule will be used for the submission, revision, judging, and awards presentation:

• August 25, 2007: Final submissions due for awards judging
• September 1, 2007: Award judging completed
• September 20, 2007: Awards presented at the SEAF Annual Conference