Description

Over the last few years, we get asked a lot for course materials to offer a course in facilitation skills.

As corporate trainers and business managers seek out training content, we’ve seen a high demand for practical skill based courses.

That’s why we are excited to announce that you can download our course materials and use themto deliver a course in facilitation skills.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this course in facilitation skills, your participants will be able to:

– Identify the main obstacles to effective facilitation skills.
– Understand the facilitation process.
– Understand a range of facilitation techniques.
– Build an effective facilitation process.
– Explain the benefits of effective facilitation skills.

Course overview

The following topics are covered within the slides, manuals and support materials provided will help you deliver a course in facilitation skills.

What is Facilitation – The course materials start with a definition of facilitation. Use the content when is it appropriate to use these techniques.

What is a Facilitator – Use this content to explore the traits associated with great facilitators. And, then explore with participants whether they have the potential to be a facilitator.

Functions – This section examines the function of facilitation. Next, use the content to look at various facilitation styles, principles and values that are needed by facilitators.

The Facilitation Process – Use this section to teach your audience about decision making, outcomes and products.

Designing The Process – This section explores how to design a facilitation process.

Facilitation Techniques – Use the content to explore facilitation techniques. The content then examines tips, rules, how to gain consensus, self-check questions and the concept of intervention.

Techniques – Use this section to explore specific techniques that facilitators can use within a wide variety of settings. These include:

– Awareness Technique
– Brainstorming
– NGT Technique
– Affinity Diagram
– Fish Bowl
– Multiple Perspectives Disk
– The Hanger Technique

People In The Process – Use the content to explore group dynamics and personality types. Finally, explore the important areas of dealing with conflict and understanding the role of people in the process.

How it works

You’ll receive course materials that consist of a 67 page participant manual. It also contains all exercises, tests and further reading required.

We also include 84 Powerpoint Slides. Together, these materials provide trainers and managers with all the content needed to successfully deliver this course content to others.

We are also delighted to include a 70 page facilitator manual and 14 Expert Training Guides that will further help you deliver this course in facilitation skills.

Testimonials

“The modules are certainly still proving useful. Every day I think of another use for them, they have come at just the right time, really excellent value for money – the complexity and depth in the materials mean we can mix and max Powerpoint presentations to suit our audience’s levels and requirements.”

Anita Wild
Director
Action Development Group

“As someone who’s been involved in training for more than twenty years, I’ve never known a resource that’s as consistently valuable as Oak.

I’m always amazed at their willingness to provide purchasers of their complete range of presentations regular updates and new training packages at no additional cost. That makes my purchase become more valuable all the time. And their speed in responding to questions is phenomenal.

One of the sessions I often provide is a Training the Trainers workshop. In it, the very first resource I encourage people to purchase is the library of resources from Oak. These packages have made my job infinitely easier, and I recommend them to anyone who’s looking for the highest quality in training materials.”

Jeffrey L. Buller
Senior Partner
ATLAS
Academic Training, Leadership & Assessment Services

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