How to be an effective leader and communicator
Facilitation Skills
Facilitation skills are no longer only for facilitators. To be an effective manager, you need good communication and facilitation skills to lead your team to a desired outcome.
At this workshop, you will:
- Recognize that facilitation is a holistic system
- Understand the role a facilitator plays at meeting
- Practice the basics of facilitating
- Increase your skills in using tips, techniques and tools for facilitating
- Enhance your knowledge and skill level and development
- Develop a follow-up reinforcement plan to continue to grow after the workshop
Benefits
At the end of the workshop, you will have:
- A set of tools and techniques for facilitation and moving groups to successful desired outcomes
- Increase self-confidence to facilitate meetings, retreats and training sessions.
- Enhanced professional presence
- Career and life-long skills growth
Who should attend
Managers and executives who need to facilitate will find this workshop beneficial. Team leaders, section heads and department heads will also find these skills useful when communicating with their team members and staff.
What you will cover in this two-day workshop:
- What is Facilitation
- The Facilitator's Role
- The Systems Approach to Facilitation
- Preparing for a session
- Defining the purpose of the session
- Identifying the participants
- Identifying the issues
- How to start a session
- Making a strong opening
- Setting ground rules
- Agreeing on the agenda
- How to question effectively
- Some questioning techniques
- Building consensus
- Dealing with disagreements
- How to close a session
- Reviewing the discussion
- Confirming decisions made
- Evaluating the session
- Ending the session
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. Peter Drucker
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