Facilitation Skils workshop
Venue: Advanced Strategy Cemter
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Event Date/Time: Dec 06, 2004 | End Date/Time: Dec 08, 2004 |
Description
Be the FACILITATOR You Were Meant to Be:
This workshop is the state-of-the art training that has made many facilitators so successful in their organizations or in their private practice. It provides full integration of the processes, techniques and logistics of facilitation and the vocabulary of the field.
For some participants, the concepts and practices presented will be new. For others, they will confirm their current approach, and perhaps offer alternatives. For all participants, the workshop offers an integrated framework for facilitation, including the means to continuously learn new ideas for making the facilitator’s work more useful to the group.
Basic Facilitation also offers a standard against which to measure yourself. The Facilitator’s CoreSkills Inventory consists of measurable skills. You and your personal coach get to measure your skills against the standard provided. You receive structured feedback and the means to see and understand your strengths and correct your weaknesses.
Basic Facilitation is largely practice-based. Short theory sessions and demonstrations are followed by extensive hands-on practice and coaching sessions on cases. Because everyone is trying to support each other’s learning, the work atmosphere is positive, engaging and motivating. For example, Days 1 and 2 conclude with the completion of a Learning Register by each participant. These are then reviewed and discussed at the beginning of the next day’s session. The extensive Practice Facilitations, with video feedback, are interspersed throughout the entire program, affording participants ample hands-on opportunity to assimilate the learning’s of the workshop.
Who Should Attend?
This three-day intensive program is designed for all those who are called upon to provide process facilitation to their organization. Those who will find this seminar relevant to their work include managers and practitioners in the fields of:
Planning
Change Management
Project Management
Human Resource Management
Training
Quality Assurance
Conflict Resolution
Community consultation
7 Benefits of this Workshop:
Help any group achieve its task
Continuously improve as a facilitator, coach and mentor
Measure your skills against a Facilitator’s CoreSkill Inventory
Play the role of process expert for your organization or practice
How to choose the most appropriate approach for a group or team
Adopt the behaviors and mindset to facilitate with the greatest effect
Apply facilitation to a full range of situations from community to business
What you will learn at this Workshop:
Select a process to help a work group handle a full range of situations
Explain an approach to a group, and then guide them through it
Focus the group’s energy on what is high priority
Help the group identify and confront its conflicts
Build the group into a team based on the result it wishes to achieve
Predict the potential success of the work group
Communicate to group members their potential for achieving success
Transfer to the group behaviors that are productive, positive and testable
Increase the group’s capacity to use reliable information
Improve the group’s capacity for undertaking complex change
Exercise patience with groups who don’t know how to do things
Apply your facilitation skills to all walks of life
Program Content
Day 1 – The Framework of Facilitation
• Introduction, Expectations and Values
• The Facilitator's CoreSkills Inventory
• The underlying principles of facilitation
• Left-Right brain processes
• Facilitation roles played in a work session
• 10 fundamentals for facilitation
• 10 standards for facilitation
• Action Research in facilitation
• Group principles
• Universal processes
• The coaching-observation process
• Facilitation issues
Day 2 – Facilitating through Problems & Conflicts
• Roles and responsibilities of facilitators
• The problem mindset and how to cope with it
• Facilitating group problem solving
• Working with the difficult participant
• From problem to conflict
• The anatomy of conflict in groups
• Facilitating group conflict
• Interim, adaptive, and corrective actions
• Linkage to decision making processes
Day 3 – Using Measurable Processes in Facilitation
• Facilitating complex decision processes
• Consensus seeking by the facilitator
• Group Think in facilitation
• Setting up decision criteria
• Analyzing risk in decision making
• Facilitating Action Planning
• Workshop Evaluation and Close