Facilitation Foundational Skills skills are in great demand as organizations become more heavily involved in creating team-based environments. The success of any team is directly related to the ability of the facilitator or meeting leader to guide the team toward a common goal and shared understanding. Facilitators play a key role in helping a group make decisions. They help create a safe environment where everyone feels like their input is valued.
In Better World's Facilitation Foundational Skills, Level One Workshop, you’ll explore the benefits of facilitation, explore the group decision making process, explore various tools a facilitator uses, and have the opportunity to practice facilitating a group (and receive feedback on your efforts). Two full days are committed to developing skills and learning tools for facilitating small groups (under 20 people).
Facilitation is defined as:
"A process by which events are “helped to happen.” Facilitating is a kind of influence role that is neither authoritarian nor abdicating." –Cummings and Worley
To help a group’s effectiveness by improving its process –Webster’s Dictionary
Who Should Attend:
Any manager, team leader or team member involved in team-based projects, including: •Project managers looking to improve their ability to manage cross-functional project
•Team leaders who want to maximize team performance and group unity.
•Department heads who want to accomplish more with existing resources.
•Human resource directors and trainers who wish to instill facilitation principles within their work culture
•Human resource directors and trainers who wish to instill facilitation principles within their work culture
•Independent and internal management consultants and facilitators who want to increase their credibility and facilitation skills.
Workshop Content for Participants:
Understanding the Role of the Facilitator
Establishing (inviting and including) the right participants
Establishing Value
Developing an agenda
Setting up the Room
During the Session Core Skills and Tools
Norms, Parking Lot, Roles, Housekeeping items
Icebreakers- Why they matter
The importance of balancing Dialogue and Decision Making
Close Out and Recap/ Action Plan and Follow Up
Processes
Time Investment:
Two Full days, 6.5 hours per day (including a one hour lunch break)
