Critical Facilitation Skills for Leaders

price starting at:
$1195
course duration:
2 Days
training option:
Live Online
Course Overview

Facilitation Skills Training

An effective leader harnesses the diverse strengths of the team to maximize performance. Successfully mastering critical facilitation skills and applying them deftly can drive these results. You will enhance your interpersonal competencies and observational abilities to deal effectively with disruptions and dysfunctions, and guide groups to reach consensus and exceed expectations.

This course will earn you 14 PDUs | 14 CDUs

Critical Facilitation Skills for Leaders Course Overview

Learning Objectives

  • Employ techniques to encourage participation and reach consensus
  • Utilize facilitative questioning techniques
  • Recognize indicators to facilitate each state of the team process
  • Deal constructively with disruptions and typical problem behaviors
  • Understand how to implement interventions appropriately
  • Plan and run a focused discussion, meeting, or event

COURSE AGENDA

Facilitation Skills Curriculum

In this workshop, you will learn how to develop and apply facilitation techniques to support your team at every stage of the team life cycle.

Strategic Leadership

Organizational Leadership

  • What is facilitation?
  • Effective facilitation versus ineffective facilitation
  • Harnessing the power of the group
  • How does facilitation differ from leading

  • Differentiating process from content
  • Elements of process
  • Elements of content

  • Laying the groundwork
  • Planning for a facilitated meeting
  • Knowing the expectations

  • Encouraging participation
  • Stages in the team life cycle
  • Situational leadership and facilitation
  • Understanding communication styles for facilitation efficiency

  • Gathering and presenting data
  • Synthesizing and summarizing data
  • Identifying options
  • Narrowing the focus

  • Handling difficult behavior and people
  • Addressing dysfunction
  • Getting back on track
  • Selecting a method of intervention

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