Introduction to Small Group Facilitation Skills
| INSTRUCTOR |
Colleen Franklin Sabourin |
| LENGTH OF COURSE |
2 full days |
| TIME / DATE |
8:30am - 4:00pm / March 8, 9, 2012 |
| PRICE |
$850.00 + HST |
| LOCATION |
Holiday Inn & Suites
101 Kanata Avenue, Ottawa |
| DESCRIPTION |
This highly interactive workshop will provide participants with the basic knowledge and techniques necessary to facilitate small groups. |
| PROGRAM CONTENT |
What is facilitation?
- Facilitation Is - Is Not
- Process vs Content Leadership
- Identifying “your” facilitation style
Overview of Group Dynamics
- Stages of group development
- Implications for facilitation
Pre Event Planning - Getting Ready
- Planning the Event
- Establishing Client Expectation
- Identifying Participant Objectives
- Planning the Environment
- Engaging Participants Before the Event
During the Event
- Opening the Event
- Facilitation Skills
- delivering clear instructions
- questioning
- gathering responses
- documenting responses
- keeping a range of participants productive
- focusing on outcomes and reaching agreement
- Closing the Event
- reviewing objectives for completion
- planning next steps
- identifying follow up communication plans
- evaluating the event
During the Workshop You Will:
- Practice and receive feedback from an experienced facilitator and learning peers
- Practice skills in a safe environment
- Develop your own facilitation practice guide with templates, worksheets and list of resources for use after the workshop
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| WHAT YOU WILL LEARN |
- How to apply the core values, principles and behaviours of facilitation
- How to ask the right questions before and during the event
- How to apply key facilitation techniques and processes
- How to open, manage and close results oriented meetings and discussions
- How to facilitate difficult situations and resolve problem meeting behaviour
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| WHO SHOULD ATTEND |
Anyone interested in developing skills and techniques to lead meetings and business discussion:
- team leaders and managers at any level who run meetings
- project managers
- internal consultants and human resource specialists
- business analysts
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