FUSE planning resources

Facilitation Planning Resources

Use these evidence-led tools to prepare a decision session, compare facilitation scope, evaluate a venue, or choose an appropriate method. Each resource names what it can support and where its evidence stops.

Where should an offsite or facilitation buyer start?

Start with the decision or outcome the group must own, then use the agenda, role-comparison, venue, and facilitator-selection resources that match that buyer task. Each resource states its evidence boundary and links to the relevant FUSE service or published case proof.

Leadership teams · One day

Executive Offsite Agenda Template

A one-day, decision-led agenda with preparation, decision-record, and 30- or 90-day follow-through checklists.

Open the template
Strategy · Two days

Strategic Planning Agenda Template

A two-day process that moves from evidence to integrated choices, capabilities, portfolio decisions, and measurable outcomes.

Open the template
Buyer guide · Role clarity

Facilitator vs Consultant vs Internal Lead

Choose the right role by answer authority, process neutrality, evidence needs, and the deliverable being purchased.

Read the buyer guide
Procurement · Copy-ready

Facilitator Selection & RFP Brief

A procurement-ready checklist, interview guide, scoring model, and copy-ready facilitation brief.

Use the selection brief
Venues · Evidence boundaries

Canadian Offsite Venue Guide

Four venues connected to published FUSE delivery evidence, separated from current venue-published facts and a buyer reconfirmation checklist.

Explore the venue evidence
Research · Descriptive inventory

FUSE Engagement Insights v0

A transparent coded inventory of all 11 published FUSE cases, including geography, methods, outcome evidence, and limitations.

Review the evidence
Method · Four cases

Open Space Technology

When participant-led agenda design fits, how to bound it, and four published FUSE examples.

Explore the method
Method · Explicit limits

Appreciative Inquiry

How to use strengths-oriented inquiry without minimizing harm, risk, conflict, or accountability.

Explore the method
Method · Cross-functional work

Ecosystem Mapping

A practical process for mapping actors, exchanges, constraints, and intervention points across a system.

Explore the method

Resources do not replace diagnosis

A resource is useful when the mandate, authority, evidence, group dynamics, and risks fit it. Adapt the process when accessibility, language, conflict, power, confidentiality, legal, employment, clinical, safety, or governance conditions require qualified support.

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