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Course Outline.
We’ve crafted seven engaging modules that you can use to guide participants on becoming skilled facilitators.
1. Unlocking the Power of Facilitation: What It Is and Why It Matters
This module’s content introduces the core principles of facilitation and explores facilitators’ crucial role in various organizational settings.
Particpants will:
- Define facilitation and its importance in today’s workplace.
- Identify the core competencies of an effective facilitator.
- Facilitation in Leadership and Team Activities: Real-world applications.
Expected Outcomes: Participants will be able to define facilitation, understand the role of a facilitator, and recognize its relevance in different contexts.
Suggested Additional Activities: Interactive discussion, self-assessment quiz on facilitation styles.
2. Become a Facilitation Pro: Essential Skills for Leading Groups
This module focuses on the fundamental skills every facilitator needs, including agenda setting, time management, and active listening.
In this section, course participants will explore:
- Setting Agendas and Capturing Data: Structuring meetings for success.
- Time Management Techniques: Keeping discussions on track and within schedule.
- Clarifying, Coordinating, and Summarizing: Ensuring clear communication and understanding.
- Relieving Tension and Managing Conflict: Addressing difficult situations effectively.
- Protecting the Process: Maintaining neutrality and fairness.
Expected Outcomes: Participants can apply essential facilitation skills, including agenda setting, time management, and conflict resolution.
Suggested Additional Activities: Role-playing scenarios, agenda-planning exercise, active listening practice.
3. Discover Your Facilitation Superpower: Identifying Your Unique Style
The content can help you explore different facilitation styles and learn when to apply each one for optimal results.
Your participants will explore:
- Functions of Facilitation: Benefits for organizations and teams.
- Facilitator Styles: Directive, Participative, and other approaches.
- Values of Effective Facilitators: Qualities that drive successful outcomes.
Expected Outcomes 1: Participants can design a comprehensive facilitation process, from defining objectives to implementing strategies.
Expected Outcomes 2: Participants can identify and apply different facilitation styles based on the situation and understand the values underpinning effective facilitation.
Suggested Additional Activities: Case study analysis, style identification quiz, group discussion.
4. The 3-Stage Facilitation Process for Guaranteed Success
This module’s content provides a step-by-step guide to designing effective facilitation processes, from defining objectives to implementing strategies.
Participants will learn about the following stages:
- Stage 1: Define your facilitation process’s purpose, desired outcomes, and specific deliverables.
- Stage 2: Design a structured and engaging process tailored to your objectives.
- Stage 3: Implement the process effectively, ensuring you achieve your desired outcomes and deliverables.
Expected Outcomes: Participants can design a comprehensive facilitation process, from defining objectives to implementing strategies.
Suggested Additional Activities: Process design workshop, scenario planning, template creation.
5. Designing Processes That Drive Results
Participants will learn practical facilitation techniques to enhance group dynamics, stimulate creativity, and build consensus.
Course participants will:
- Understand the critical link between process design and facilitation outcomes.
- Learn how to tailor your process design to specific goals and group dynamics.
- Develop a framework for creating facilitation processes that maximize engagement and achieve desired results.
Expected Outcomes: Participants can create and implement effective facilitation processes that drive desired outcomes.
Suggested Additional Activities: Hands-on practice with each technique, group facilitation exercises, and a technique selection guide.
6. Understanding the role of people in a facilitation process
You can use the content to provide participants with the skills to navigate challenging group dynamics, manage conflict constructively, and foster a positive environment.
Course participants will:
- Review essential tips and rules for fostering consensus in a facilitation setting.
- Explore self-check questions to gauge your effectiveness and identify areas for improvement.
- Understand the concept of intervention and how to use it appropriately to guide discussions.
- Master seven powerful facilitation techniques: awareness technique, brainstorming, NGT technique, affinity diagram, fish bowl, multiple perspectives disk, the hanger technique.
Expected Outcomes: Participants can apply various facilitation techniques to enhance group dynamics and achieve consensus.
Suggested Additional Activities: Conflict resolution role-playing, group dynamics simulation, personality assessment.
7. People Skills for Facilitation
This final module allows participants to apply their newly acquired skills in a simulated facilitation scenario.
Course participants will:
- Develop active listening skills to capture and understand contributions from all participants.
- Learn how to collate and synthesize knowledge from diverse perspectives effectively.
- Identify and encourage active participation in the facilitation process.
- Examine group dynamics and learn to recognize different personality types.
- Explore proven strategies for dealing with conflict constructively and maintaining a positive group environment.
- Review the critical role of people in the facilitation process and how to create a supportive and inclusive environment.
Expected Outcomes: Participants can manage group dynamics effectively, resolve conflicts constructively, and inspire active participation.
Suggested Additional Activities: Mock facilitation session, peer feedback, action planning workshop.
Equip Your Learners With The Skills They Need.
In this training course on facilitation skills, your participants will:
- Explore the main obstacles to practical facilitation skills.
- Understand the facilitation process.
- Understand a range of facilitation techniques.
- Examine how to build an effective facilitation process.
- Understand the benefits of practical facilitation skills.
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Comprehensive Course Workbook (81 pages)
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