Facilitator use a variety of tools and techniques to both support and get the most from the teams they work with.
Now, you can use our facilitation training course material to provide teams with the tips and techniques that they need.
The training course material covers:
- Facilitator roles and responsibilities.
- Designing an engaging process.
- Driving participation and consensus.
- Managing group dynamics.
- Employing proven facilitation techniques.
Objectives.
Your participants will:
- Explore the main obstacles to effective facilitation skills.
- Understand the facilitation process.
- Understand a range of facilitation techniques.
- Examine how to build an effective facilitation process.
- Understand the benefits of effective facilitation skills.
Topics Covered.
1. Introduction
- What is facilitation.
2. How to become a more effective facilitator
- How to set agendas and capture data
- How to use time management and information seeking techniques.
- The role of clarifying, coordinating, and summarizing.
- How to relive tension.
- How to protect the process.
3. What are the functions of facilitation skills?
- The primary function of a facilitation.
- The range of values that are needed by effective facilitators.
- Facilitator styles available (e.g., directive, exploratory, delegating, participative, interpretive, and evaluative).
4. Introduce the three stages of a facilitation process
- Stage 1: Define the purpose, outcomes, and products required from the process
- Stage 2: Design and define the actual process
- Stage 3: Implement the process and ensure the outcomes and products
5. How to design a facilitation process?
- How facilitation design impacts the facilitation process.
6. Explore seven facilitation techniques
- Key tips, rules, and how to gain consensus within a facilitation setting.
- Self-check questions and the concept of intervention.
- Facilitation techniques (awareness technique, brainstorming, NGT technique, affinity diagram, fish bowl, multiple perspectives disk, the hanger technique).
7. Understanding the role of people in a facilitation process.
- How to listen to and capture contributions.
- The importance of collating knowledge.
- Active participation in a facilitation process.
- Group dynamics skills and personality types.
- Dealing with conflict.
- The role of people in the process.
What’s In The Download.
Get instant access to a zip file that contains everything you need.
- Slide Deck (84 Slides).
- Workbook (70 Pages).
- Student Workbook (67 Pages).
- 17 Free Training Games.
- 17 Free Training Icebreakers.
- 12 Practical Training Guides.
- 2 Course Tests.
- Activities/Exercises.
- A Reading List.
- A Course Advertorial.
- An Action Plan.
