Why do projects fail? Most fail because of vague requirements, conflicting priorities, unclear accountabilities. Equip project managers with essential group facilitation skills and tools to align stakeholders, remove roadblocks, and drive progress.
Sep 1 - Oct 1, 2026 | Live-Online Public Workshop
Our signature program Essential Facilitation™ has been customized to fit the specific needs of project managers. In this workshop, you'll learn to run the critical meetings and conversations that keep projects moving and stakeholders aligned.
When you finish, you'll know how to:
What's Included
Project managers are expected to lead across functions, influence without authority, and keep work moving through ambiguity. But many project managers are trained to manage tasks — not facilitate alignment.
Essential Facilitation for Project Managers equips PMs to lead the critical meetings and conversations that drive coordinated execution throughout the Project Management Lifecycle.
From kickoff meetings that set clear expectations to status reviews that surface problems early, from planning sessions that balance competing pressures to closure meetings that capture lessons learned — facilitation skills help you navigate the human dynamics at every stage. The technical skills get you the role. Facilitation skills keep the project on track.
Stakeholders nod in your kickoff, then three weeks later reveal they had completely different expectations.
Essential Facilitation teaches you how to design kickoff meetings that force stakeholders to clarify what they want. You'll learn specific facilitation techniques for surfacing conflicting priorities, getting beneath vague requirements, and documenting agreements that people will honor. No more polite nodding that masks fundamental misalignment.
Most training sends you home with a program manual. We give you continued support to ensure the skills actually stick when stakeholders push back on your kickoff agenda.
Sustainment Emails
Three months of weekly practice prompts and reinforcement.
1-on-1 Coaching
Free 30-minute session post-training to dive deeper into your challenges.
Graduate Portal
Lifetime access to templates and resources from Essential Facilitation training.
Digital Badge
Graduate badge that you can add to your LinkedIn credentials.
Graduate Webinars
Quarterly virtual sessions for continued learning.
PMI PDUs
24 PDUs that you can apply to your PMI credentials.
We've complied tools that project managers have found the most valuable in their work day including a meeting agenda template, meeting reset cheat sheet, decision making guide and a facilitator's guide.
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