Clearer Thinking provides
organisations with independent facilitation support & advice.
Working with organisations across the UK we are experienced in helping you better understand
what you want to achieve from your session then thinking about the best way to get there.
Organisations we have worked with include:
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About
Clearer Thinking
Clearer Thinking is a team of experts with a proven track record in delivering independent facilitation. We are known for providing a flexible and quality service with our clients regularly returning to use our services.
Clearer Thinking was founded by Pete Spriggs, who has worked as an independent facilitator for over fifteen years. Previously Pete worked for: Forum for the Future; Waste Watch; and the Peak District National Park Authority. He has built a reputation as a confident and experienced facilitator, taking pride in ensuring his work has clear objectives and fully involves all those present.
Working from Buxton in the Derbyshire Peak District Pete manages a range of projects, drawing in expertise from the pool of Clearer Thinking Associates to deliver the right expertise for the job.
What we can do for
your organisation
Facilitation is about making your meeting, workshop or conference easier to run and more productive. Using a facilitator for both face to face and online discussions will help you get the most from the time and resources available – ensuring there’s clarity of purpose, a carefully planned process and that all those involved contribute towards achieving an agreed set of objectives.
Many of the requests for facilitation support from Clearer Thinking involve helping organisations successfully plan during periods of change. Well informed and properly considered decisions are more likely to result in successful outcomes.
If you are tired of poorly planned, unfocused and indecisive online and face to face meetings and workshops then Clearer Thinking would be happy to discuss how you could benefit from independent facilitation support.
To date we have delivered over 500 workshops to in excess of 11,000 people with group sizes ranging from 4 to 450 participants.
Don't just take our word for it
I have worked with Clearer Thinking for a number of years; I call on them whenever I have a topic which needs an independent facilitator to bring together different views and perspectives and get them turned into something tangible that leads to change. Many of the big projects or changed approaches to the way the National Trust delivers its work can trace their roots back to a session facilitated by Clearer Thinking – from the way we approach the management of huge tracts of land through to stripping out some of our internal process treacle. The combination of fantastic organisational insight, clarity of thinking and inclusive, purposeful facilitation techniques make a real impact.
Harry BowellExecutive Director of Operations & Consultancy, National Trust 
We have used Pete for the past 6 years at the Woodland Trust as our ‘go to’ person for external facilitation. He not only provides seamless facilitation of workshops and meetings, his organisational and planning skills before and after the event ensure we always make best use of the time and energy! No-one is left unheard, and nothing is left unrecorded, all with such a calm and clear approach
Wenda-Kate RandlePeople & Development Lead, Woodland Trust 
I needed to organise a complex, high profile webinar at a business festival with a number of external speakers. It was important that the event looked professional - with the key messages from the session being the thing the delegates took away not memories of technical problems and poor facilitation. Pete organised everything expertly and from day one I knew we had a safe pair of hands. The overwhelmingly positive feedback just added to a highly successful event.
Sally ColemanPlace Marketing Team, Leicester & Leicestershire 
I highly recommend Clearer Thinking. We have used their services on several occasions over the past few years and their extremely well planned and brilliantly executed workshops have enabled us to build exciting new collaborative strategies and partnerships. Plus they are very friendly, extremely flexible and lots of fun to work with!
Jo SmithCEO, Derbyshire Wildlife Trust 
Barnsley Museums have worked with Clearer Thinking over a number of years – Pete provides first class independent facilitation giving our team space to think and challenge ourselves. The team have all really enjoyed working with Pete both in person and digitally. The sessions are really well organised, supportive and fun, and have had a really important and positive impact on our work.
Lynn DunningGroup Leader – Arts & Heritage, Barnsley Council 
I have worked with Clearer Thinking for many years, and greatly value their ability to work closely with the Woodland Trust to a) create SMART objectives for workshops that really nail what the Trust wants to get out of the day, b) deliver workshops in fun, engaging and creative ways, whilst keeping the end goal in sight. I can't recommend them more highly.
Nick SellwoodProject Manager - Northern Forest 
I have worked with Pete at Clearer Thinking on a number of occasions to deliver partnership workshops. He always makes me work hard to really get to grips with the outcomes I want to achieve from a workshop, and then weaves these into a slick and professional series of interactive sessions. Clearer Thinking has helped our partnership to consolidate our thinking to both apply for Lottery funding and shape our legacy planning process in order to plan for our future.
Karen Shelley-JonesSouth West Peak Scheme Manager 
Pete is the independent, critical friend that can challenge your perspective and then support you to develop a more meaningful approach. He understands exactly what constitutes good facilitation and works with you to ensure that your consultation workshops have clear objectives and ask the right questions to get to the heart of what you need to know. In front of an audience, Pete exudes calm confidence and energy which puts participants at ease and sets a positive tone for the event. He is also, without question, one of the most well-organised, efficient people I have ever worked with! You know that, with his experience, meticulous planning, and thorough understanding of his craft, the facilitation of your event is in the safest pair of hands
Julie AttardProgramme Manager, The National Forest 
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