The Course Suits

Anyone who already understand the fundamentals of facilitation and has conducted events before either as a manger or support professional.

Training Benefits

The participants will have insights and practiced the skills necessary to become an accomplished facilitator, these are:

1.       Creating a climate for success
2.       Engaging stakeholders
3.       Designing and event and creating buy in from the stakeholders
4.       Use of creative facilitation techniques
5.       Managing the process
6.       Maintaining direction and monitoring progress
7.       Handling difficult people and situations
8.       When to bring in senior stakeholders to ensure order and momentum is maintained
9.       Reviewing progress against anticipated outcomes
10.     Ensuring the momentum caused by a successful event is translated into further action)

Course Timetable

9:30 - 10:15    First facilitated event to determine the requirements from the participants for the day which may include some/all of the following:

• Understanding of what a facilitator does and crucially what they don't do
• Develop and design an event that will lead a group through to a successful outcome
• The difference between facilitation and chairing
• 5 of the best facilitation techniques for problem solving and decision making
• Handling group dynamics and deal with challenges, resistance and disruption
• The 'Facilitators route map' - a step-by-step guide for setting up, marketing, designing and conducting a dynamic event
• Excellent design - creating a journey
• Enrolling stakeholders
• Preparing for what happens after the facilitated event

10:15 - 10:45    Review of the principle planning and design tools used by accomplished facilitators to preparing the ground fro a successful facilitated event

10:45- 11:00    Break

11:00 - 12:00    Introduction to the best consensus building, problem solving and brainstorming tools:

• Brainstorming the right way
• Blue sky vs. Grey sky
• 30-second brainstorming
• Force field analysis
• Decision matrices

12:00-12:45    Lunch

12:45-15:45    Participants take it in turns to run a series of facilitated events where they will use the best consensus building, problem solving and brainstorming tools to secure the answers to their own     priority facilitation challenges. After each event the facilitator will receive feedback from the other participants and the tutor on their performance.This continues for the remainder of the day with a 15 minute break.

15:45 - 16:15    Review and action planning. The participants will leave the event with a plan to deliver a facilitated event back at work.

16:15 - 16:30    Course review and feedback

16.30    Close