Facilitation Skills Workshop

Facilitation Skills Workshop

An effective facilitator helps a group accomplish a goal, such as understand or solve a problem, explore opportunities, define requirements, make decisions, or other objectives. The ability to keep the group on task to achieve the goal is the value a good facilitator brings to an organization. The investment in developing facilitation skills is rewarded with increased leadership capabilities, more effective time management in meetings and other group settings, and improved likelihood of achieving team and business goals.

Objectives

• Learn various facilitation techniques, including when and how to use them for best effect.
• Develop a structured approach to planning and conducting facilitated sessions.
• Practice applying facilitation concepts and best practices.

Length and Learning Modes

Live classes: 1 Day; Discounts available for teams and for private offerings.

Format

Live: This course is highly interactive, providing students an opportunity to facilitate a variety of sessions and get feedback. Workshops enable students to practice being facilitators and scribes.

Video-On-Demand: Video-on-demand with online training portal, and community interaction. This includes 6-months digital access to all training materials.

Development Units

PDUs: 7 CDUs: 7 CEUs: 0.7

Audience

Those wishing to use facilitation for maximum effect and those wishing to go beyond basic meeting skills to deliver consensus and action.

Outline

Facilitation Basics

Additional content in the 2-day version:

• Problem solving techniques with facilitated sessions (Problem Identification, Root Causes Analysis, and Problem Solving)
• Associated brainstorming technique with facilitated session
• Process mapping technique with facilitated session
• Conflict resolution techniques with facilitated session