In-House Advanced Facilitation Strategies
Background
Until a few years ago facilitation was a poorly understood and vastly under-utilized skill set known mainly to consultants and Human Resource specialists. In the last few years, more people have come to recognize just how important facilitation is to group effectiveness. These same people have also come to appreciate the challenges of facilitating well.
This two-day advanced skills workshop aims to provide experienced facilitators with additional process design skills and equip them with the techniques required to deal more confidently with challenging situations.
The Learning Opportunity
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To build self-awareness about the personal behaviors that support effective facilitation
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To add to the experienced facilitator’s repertoire of tools and techniques
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To explore and clarify the boundaries of facilitation
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To provide insight into the types of challenging situations that facilitators encounter
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To strengthen planning and design skills
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To provide opportunities for further practice and coaching in a supportive environment
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The Learning Environment
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Who Should Attend
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- Content focused through needs assessment
- Limited class size with numerous opportunities to practice in small groups
- Structured feedback, safe environment to try out new skills
- Case studies based on realistic situations
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- Anyone who leads group discussions: team leaders, managers, project managers, OD and HR professionals
- Facilitators should have over one year’s experience designing and facilitating complex meetings
- External consultants who want to lead more collaborative discussions
- Previous training in facilitation skills is a prerequisite
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About the Workshop
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Day One
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Day Two
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- Setting the Context
- Fundamental and Advanced Core Practices
- The Facilitator as Consultant
- Steps in the Consulting Process
- Decision-Making Tools Roadmap
- Expanding and Narrowing Tools
- Closure & Homework
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- Review of Day One Learning
- Share-a-Tool Session
- Intro to Targeted Norming
- Negotiating your Power
- The Principles of Buy-In and Resistance
- Intervention Language Review
- Learning Recap and Evaluation
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In House Workshops
Facilitating with Ease!
Refresher
Advanced Strategies
Making Meetings Work
Problem Solving
Power of Conflict
Internal Consulting
“I cannot express how appreciative I was both for Michael’s expertise and the session’s information. I was very pleased that it not only met my expectations but exceeded them by far! I have already (just this morning) applied key portions of the Advanced workshop learning and received positive feedback on this.
Thank you for continuing to offer these types of profesisonal and informative workshops...we need and enjoy them!”
Nicole Mitton
Marketing and Promotions Manager
City of Lethbridge
Earn while you learn!
Facilitation First has been approved as a provider of project management training by the Project Management Institute. This workshop earns PMP® certificants 14 PDUs.
