Essential Facilitation®

Core skills for guiding groups

The skills and techniques offered in Essential Facilitation® are designed to produce significant performance improvement, career development, and personal growth. Essential Facilitation® shows how to effectively facilitate in situations that have one or more of the following "Three Cs":

  • Complex or high-stakes content
  • Conflict — the situation is emotionally-charged or controversial
  • Context — when you must balance multiple stakeholders' needs and points of view

The Project Management Institute has approved this workshop for up to 24 PDUs for Project Management Professionals.

In this course you will:

  • Develop in-depth preparation skills, including mastering the one task you MUST complete before the start of any meeting
  • Get best practices for facilitating virtual meetings
  • Learn to solve problems before they start and handle them with confidence if they do arise
  • Practice the four essential guidelines for resolving conflict
  • Receive a whole toolkit of skills and strategies to help groups make better decisions, faster
  • Learn to navigate difficult situations and cope with challenging behaviors
  • Learn the five simple steps to take after the meeting to ensure you get results
  • Receive one-on-one coaching on your videotaped practice session

Who should attend:

Anyone who leads or facilitates meetings.

Agenda:

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
  • Workshop Overview
  • Four Facilitation Approaches
  • Introduction to the Interaction Method™
  • Facilitation Practice
  • Start-Up & Review of Day 1
  • Listen as an Ally
  • Ladder of Inference
  • Collaborative Problem Solving
  • Parking Lot
  • Designing Agendas
  • Virtual Meetings
LUNCH
LUNCH
LUNCH
  • Planning the Meeting
  • Strategic Moments
  • Facilitative Behaviors
  • Facilitation Practice
  • Evaluate the Day
  • Video Reviews/ Evening Assignment
  • Facilitation Practice
  • Collaborative-Problem Solving (continued)
  • Facilitation Practice
  • Evaluate the Day
  • Video Reviews/ Evening Assignment
  • Resolving Conflict
  • The Hot Seat
  • Following Through on Meetings
  • Action Planning
  • Graduation

Fee: 3 Days/$2395.00


Date Location Availability
February 21 - 23, 2012 San Francisco, CA Register
March 27 - 29, 2012 Dallas, TX Register
May 29 - 31, 2012 San Francisco, CA Register
July 10 - 12, 2012 Denver, CO Register
August 7 - 9, 2012 Boston, MA Register
September 25 - 27, 2012 Washington, D.C. Register
October 29 - 31, 2012 San Francisco, CA Register
November 6 - 8, 2012 Dallas, TX Register
December 4 - 6, 2012 San Francisco, CA Register

Sidebar Image

Workshops

Workshop List
Master Calendar
Locations
FAQ

Registration

Register online on our Master Calendar, or call Interaction Associates at 1(800) 347-8352.

Interaction Online for Blended Learning

Our web-based solutions enable blended learning and accelerated organization development. Your organization can enjoy online access to a variety of IA intellectual property and workshop content: easy-to-use downloadable tools and job aids, models, audio, and video. Create a community of experts Learn more

Interaction Associates' models and tools are so ingrained in our culture, they are as important as the air we breathe.

We have created a culture which retains good people and attracts talent, particularly the next generation of workers who will put even more value on a workplace where their voices are heard and appreciated.

Mike Meier

Vice President, Shared Services, STP Nuclear Operating Company