Facilitation Skills Training

Facilitation Skills Training

Effective facilitation skills are a highly desirable attribute for individuals who wish to manage meetings and planning sessions for more timely and productive outcomes.

Facilitating is morev  than just setting a meeting time. It requires skills in presentation, negotiation, elaboration and communicating with stakeholders.

The Facilitation Skills Training course teaches you practical techniques like choosing a facilitated approach, encouraging participation and gathering information, addressing disruptions, using reframing techniques, using intervention when required and much more.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course participants will be able to:

• Define facilitation and identify its purpose
• Understand the benefits of good facilitation
• Master the role and focus of a facilitator
• Differentiate between process and content of a group discussion
• Learn effective tools for preparing for an effective facilitation session
• Master techniques for effective facilitation from Tuckman and Jensen's stages of group development (forming, storming, norming and performing)
• Learn how to help a group reach a consensus and a final solution by encouraging participation
• Practice techniques for dealing with disruptions, dysfunctions and difficult people in a group setting
• Define what interventions are, when they are appropriate and learn how to implement them

Course Outline

Facilitation is often referred to as the new cornerstone of management philosophy in New Zealand. With its focus on fairness and creating easy decision making, proper facilitation can help any organisation make better decisions.

This Facilitation training course will give participants an understanding of what facilitation is all about, as well as some tools that they can use to facilitate small meetings. Learn about promoting and managing group participation, collecting evidence and gaining ‘buy-in’, how to stay on track and remove distractions and handling difficult people.