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Facilitation Skills2 days
We notice what a great facilitator does to create an effective experience, empowering groups of people to work effectively together to achieve their task.
The facilitator needs to understand group dynamics, help clarify what’s to be achieved, assist in overcoming obstacles and enable the group to succeed.
This practical course explores a range of facilitation tools and techniques to build skills and experience. You will be more confident in managing group interactions in a cross section of situations, facilitating to achieve a group outcome.
This course is designed for anyone who needs to manage decision making in groups, create effective interactive training solutions and manage consultancy work.
This course will help learners to :
- Facilitate with increased confidence and knowledge
- Be able to call upon a wide range of tools and techniques to ensure successful facilitation
- Handle facilitation sessions with professional, reassured expertise
- Confidently deal with difficult situations
- Ensure meaningful outcomes from meetings
Throughout this interactive course there are opportunities to practice and receive feedback
- Setting individual goals and expectations.
- Core concepts of facilitation
- Defining the role of facilitation within groups
- What the responsibilities included
- How to get the most from the group.
- Group dynamics
- Individual behaviours
- Rapport techniques
- Planning and preparation techniques
- Competencies most often used
- Case studies and scenarios.
- Questioning, listening and summarising techniques
- Managing difficult situations
- Creative thinking and problem solving tools
- Moving on a stuck discussion
- Managing under and over contributions
- Evolve your own methods of facilitation to meet the group objectives.
- Final action planning
Want this course tailored to meet your exact needs?
Contact us for a bespoke detailed course outline.
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Pre-requisites
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Delegate Profile
This course is designed for anyone who needs to manage decision making in groups, create effective interactive training solutions and manage consultancy work