Advanced Facilitation Skills Workshop

Course Length:  Three days

To schedule this program for your workplace, contact the Management Education Group at 480-705-9394 or click here.

Course Overview:

This three-day intensive workshop provides participants the opportunity to further develop their meeting leadership skills.  This workshop is for the successful and experienced facilitator who wants additional practice leading meetings and using advanced skills.  The training will provide the opportunity to review essential facilitator and leadership skills, as well as to gain advanced tools for confronting difficult meeting situations. Participants will develop effective questioning skills while learning to structure and pace a meeting effectively.  Tools for consensus building and for reaching closure will be emphasized.  Finally, examples and practice will be provided in order to allow participants the opportunity to explore the dynamics of public meetings, including the planning and facilitation of meetings with public involvement.

Target Audience: 

This course is designed for meeting leaders and facilitators who have received previous facilitator skills training and desire to enhance those skills.  Participants should have at least one year of facilitation experience to fully benefit from this course.

Course Objectives:

Participants can expect to:

• Increase their confidence and competence as a facilitator and meeting leader
• Strengthen their facilitator knowledge and abilities gained from previous training to include contracting, meeting design, and intervention skills
• Design and critique meeting plans and strategies to determine the best meeting structure for the situation
• Explore consensus building tools and techniques including tools for creating inclusive solutions and sustainable agreements
• Bring a group to closure by using clearly defined decision rules
• Practice facilitating a real-life scenario and receive specific, individualized feedback

Course Outline: 

• Review of key facilitator success skills
• Contracting with the meeting leader
• What to ask when?  Effective questioning for facilitators
• Creating an effective meeting structure
• When thing go wrong – Addressing common group challenges
• Considering public involvement – special cases
• Consensus building tools for reaching sustainable agreements
• Bringing meetings to closure for good
• Facilitation practice

For more information: Call the Management Education Group (480.705.9394) or email us.