Advanced Facilitation Skills

Advanced Facilitation Skills

Having advanced facilitation skills is essential for you to be able to create positive and effective interactions combined with accurate and timely decision-making.

This in-depth course will prepare you to handle complex facilitation tasks and includes specific techniques and tools that allows managers to become excellent facilitators in both training and non-training environments.

The Mindshift Learning Company Advanced Facilitation Skills training course is designed to develop a deeper understanding of facilitation such as group preparation, managing perspectives, building agreements, defining roles and other skills which allow professional facilitators to interact effectively in any situation.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course participants will be able to:
• Distinguish facilitation from instruction and training
• Identify the competencies linked to effective small group facilitation
• Understand the difference between content and process
• Understand the stages of team development and ways to help teams through each stage
• Use common process tools to make meetings easier and more productive
• Define your role in facilitating
• Establish ground rules
• Develop content and process
• Deal with controversial issues and divergent perspectives
• Develop communication skills
• Find common ground
• Use common facilitation techniques
• Give effective feedback
• Understand facilitation vocabulary
• Deal with difficult people and situations
• Build sustainable agreements
• Understand the stages of team development
• Use analysis tools

Course Outline

Skill development in facilitation is essential for performing expertly in any professional environment. During this 2-day deep-dive training course in facilitation skills, participants learn to distinguish facilitation from instruction and training, establish ground rules, develop facilitation techniques, give effective feedback, understand the stages of team development and much more.

We also offer an introductory Facilitation Skills Training course