Facilitation Skills – One Day Workshop

It is impossible to be part of an organization today and not attend meetings. Staff meetings, project meetings, planning and coordinating meetings—they all take time.

This one-day workshop has been created to make core facilitation skills better understood and readily available for your organization. It represents materials and ideas that have been tested and refined over twenty years of active facilitation in all types of settings.

What You Will Cover:

• Course Overview
• Definitions
• What is a Facilitator?
  • Role of the Facilitator
  • Facilitation
    • Encouraging Full Participation
    • Promoting Mutual Understanding & Agreement
• Types of Groups
• Content and Process
• Listening Skills
• Asking Questions
• Non-Verbal Messages
• Listening for Common Ground
• Common Facilitation Techniques
  • Park It – Use a Flipchart
  • Collect Ideas – posters
  • Summarizing, Stacking & Tracking Ideas
• Effective Feedback
• Dealing with Difficult Dynamics
• Sustainable Agreements