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Whether you are facilitating a training course, a meeting, or a brainstorming session, effective facilitation skills are the key to productive group outcomes. A skilled facilitator goes beyond just chairing a meeting; they extract the best from every attendee by encouraging collaboration, amplifying quiet voices, and building sustainable consensus.
This one-day Facilitation Skills training course is designed for supervisors, project managers, coaches, and leaders who need to master the art of guiding groups through complex discussions and disputes. Through practical exercises, you will learn to distinguish between content and process, use common process tools to boost productivity, and manage difficult group dynamics with confidence.
This one-day workshop will help you teach participants how to:
- Distinguish facilitation from instruction and training
- Identify the competencies linked to effective small group facilitation
- Understand the difference between content and process
- Identify the four stages of team development and ways to help teams through each stage
- Use common process tools to make meetings easier and more productive
Delivery Methods
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Discounts Available
Save up to 10% by booking and paying 10 business days before the course.
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Audience
Trainers, Teachers, Facilitators
Pre-Requisites
None
Course Outline / Curriculum
You will spend the first part of the day getting to know participants and discussing what will take place during the workshop. Students will also have an opportunity to identify their personal learning objectives.
- Definitions
- Participants will explore the differences between instruction, facilitation, and management in small and large groups.
- What is a Facilitator?
- Through a lecture, participants will learn about the history of facilitation, some key skills, the levels of facilitation, and the facilitation process.
- Content and Process
- It is very important for facilitators to understand the differences between content and process, as they have a different role in each element. These concepts will be explored in a large group discussion.
- Group Norms
- During this session, participants will learn about team norms and set some for themselves to guide the rest of the workshop.
- Types of Thinking
- This session will explore divergent thinking, convergent thinking, the groan zone, and multi-voting tools through a lecture and a large group exercise.
- Controversial Issues
- Facilitators are often asked for their help when a group has a controversial issue to deal with. In this session we will learn about a tool that can help participants facilitate these types of issues: the gradient of agreement.
- Communication Skills
- A key part of the facilitator's toolbox is communication skills. We will discuss how to ask good questions, how to actively listen, how to use non-verbal messages, and how to listen for common ground.
- Common Facilitation Techniques
- We will spend several hours looking at twenty techniques that facilitators often use. First we will explore these techniques through lecture, and then participants will role play the techniques in front of the large group.
- Effective Feedback
- Giving and receiving feedback is an important part of facilitation. We will look at both elements during this session.
- Dealing with Difficult Dynamics
- Participants will work in small groups to complete a mix-and-match exercise on difficult people and how to manage them.
- Sustainable Agreements
- As a facilitator, you want to make sure that all points of view have been considered, so that when an agreement is reached, it is one that everyone is happy with. During this session we will look at the components of a sustainable agreement/
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