$297intermediate

Facilitation Skills

Name: Facilitation Skills
Price: 297.00 USD
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This two-day workshop builds core facilitation skills for managers, supervisors, and team leaders who are asked to facilitate rather than instruct or manage their meetings and training sessions. Drawing on twenty years of active facilitation experience, participants will learn how to guide group decision-making, manage team dynamics, apply communication techniques, and build sustainable agreements—transforming the way their organizations run meetings.

18 lessons6 modules900 minutes

What you'll learn

Distinguish facilitation from instruction, training, and chairing
Identify the competencies and skill levels linked to effective small group facilitation
Understand the difference between content and process in facilitated sessions
Apply divergent and convergent thinking techniques to group problem solving
Use common facilitation techniques including active listening, paraphrasing, queuing, and parking lots
Provide and receive effective feedback in a facilitation context
Manage divergent perspectives and difficult group dynamics
Build sustainable agreements and guide groups toward consensus

Facilitation, Training, and Chairing: What's the Difference? When you step into a meeting room, the role you play matters enormously. Historically, many meetings have been run by a **chair**—a person whose job is to control the order of proceedings, often following formal rules like those Robert's Rules of Order introduced in the 1870s. A chair keeps order, but the format is often rigid and top-down. **Training**, on the other hand, is instructional. As a trainer, you hold the expertise and deliver it to participants. Your goal is knowledge transfer, and you direct the flow of content. **Facilitation** is different from both. The word itself comes from the Latin *facilis*, meaning "easy." As a facilitator, your job is to make work easier for the participants—not to deliver content or control the agenda through authority, but to guide the group through a process that is fair, inclusive, and productive. As a **process leader**, you manage *how* the group works so participants can focus on *what* they are working on. This means you remain detached from the content and the outcome. You don't take sides or advocate for a particular solution—you create the conditions under which the group can do its best thinking together. You may hear the terms facilitation, training, instruction, and chairing used interchangeably in your organization. Part of your role

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Facilitation Skills

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Curriculum

Defining Your Role as a Facilitator

Establishing the Facilitation Environment

Communication Skills for Facilitators

Core Facilitation Techniques

Managing Group Dynamics and Difficult Situations

Team Development and Analysis Tools

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