Essential Facilitation Skills

Aim

Designed to equip participants with the skills and confidence to facilitate meetings and events effectively.

Objectives

• Clarify the role of facilitator
• Key do’s and dont’s when facilitating meetings
• Tools and techniques for managing the process
• Tips and ideas for handling different personalities
• Maintaining a resourceful state as facilitator

Content

• Understand the role of facilitator
• How meetings succeed or fail
• Beliefs of Expert Facilitators
• Maintain a calm, confident state and have presence as a facilitator
• The meeting process
• Set up meetings and event for maximum effectiveness
• Keep meetings on track and ensure outcomes are met
• Strategies for handling different behaviours demonstrated in meetings
• Bring meetings to a satisfactory and conclusive close
• Practice using the process and skills in tailored exercises

Style
The course is highly participative and will incorporate different elements of learning to suit a variety of learning styles and to create an enjoyable and stimulating environment. Participants will benefit through practical experience, increased self-awareness, new skills and behaviours and leading edge thinking and techniques. There will be a mix of tutor input, individual and group activities, feedback and group discussion on practical applications.

Details

This programme is designed to run over 1 day
Maximum group size is 12 participants