Leadership & Management Development
Critical Facilitation Skills for Leaders
Lead meetings and workshops that reach decisions.
2 daysIntermediate6 modules
About this course
Lead meetings and workshops that reach decisions. Over two days you will facilitate process and content, set the stage, guide team development, build consensus and handle difficult dynamics constructively.
What you'll learn
- 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
Curriculum
6 modules
- 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
Who it's for
Leaders, project managers and anyone who runs group sessions.
Before you start
No formal prerequisites. Bring curiosity and a willingness to practise.
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