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
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