Facilitation Skills Training
This workshop will give participants an understanding of what facilitation is all about, as well as some tools that they can use to facilitate small meetings.
Description
This two day open facilitation skills workshop is designed for professionals who want to spend quality time exploring core facilitation roles and responsibilities when working with groups. The course is dynamic, packed with tools, methods and techniques and provides insight into and many opportunities to practice and demonstrate the key facilitation competencies.
Course Objectives
By attending this ICL training course, delegates will be able to:
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Set up a group/meeting/project for success
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Engage people and maximise their participation in the process
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Design and facilitate a meeting from ‘agenda to action’
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Use a variety of tools to match a host of objectives including clarifying and defining the issues; problem exploration, ideas generation, facilitating decision making and action planning
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Recognise difficult behaviours and situations and use tools and strategies to intervene and keep people on board and events on track
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Use the reviewing cycle and select tools to facilitate team/project and meeting reviews
How will this Training Course be Presented?
Live-Online
Who is this Training Course for?
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If you have experience of group facilitation and need to develop your skills, confidence and repertoire of tools and techniques to improve your effectiveness then this course has the content, creativity and design to help you to do that.
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If you are in a post that requires you to facilitate teams and groups; involved in facilitating meetings, training events, development programmes, facilitating staff and stakeholder engagement, projects and initiatives designed to support change, process improvement, facilitate transformation, quality or choice then this course will provide you with structure, insights, methods and tools to support you in designing, facilitating and reviewing whilst maximising engagement and progress towards objectives.
The Course Content
Module One: Getting Started
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Icebreaker
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Housekeeping Items
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The Parking Lot
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Workshop Objectives
Module Two: Understanding Facilitation
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What is Facilitation?
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What is a Facilitator?
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When is Facilitation Appropriate?
Module Three: Process vs. Content
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About Process
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About Content
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A Facilitator"s Focus
Module Four: Laying the Groundwork
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Choosing a Facilitated Approach
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Planning for a Facilitated Meeting
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Collecting Data
Module Five: Tuckman and Jensen"s Model of Team Development
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Stage One: Forming
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Stage Two: Storming
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Stage Three: Norming
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Stage Four: Performing
Module Six: Building Consensus
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Encouraging Participation
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Gathering Information
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Presenting Information
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Synthesizing and Summarizing
Module Seven: Reaching a Decision Point
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Identifying the Options
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Creating a Short List
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Choosing a Solution
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Using the Multi-Option Technique
Module Eight: Dealing with Difficult People
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Addressing Disruptions
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Common Types of Difficult People and How to Handle Them
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Helping the Group Resolve Issues on Their Own
Module Nine: Addressing Group Dysfunction
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Using Ground Rules to Prevent Dysfunction
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Restating and Reframing Issues
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Getting People Back on Track
Module Ten: About Intervention
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Why Intervention May Be Necessary
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When to Intervene
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Levels of Intervention
Module Eleven: Intervention Techniques
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Using Your Processes
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Boomerang it Back
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ICE It: Identity, Check for agreement, Evaluate how to Resolve
Module Twelve: Wrapping Up
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Words from the Wise
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Review of Parking Lot
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Lessons Learned
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Completion of Action Plans and Evaluations