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Facilitation Skills

An understanding of effective facilitation skills enables you to gain many of the benefits of an external consultancy assignment - at a fraction of the cost.  Any action plans resulting from a facilitated meeting are far more likely to be implemented successfully, as the plan has been created by and for the people who know the most about the subject matter.

Facilitation is successfully used in a large number of settings and scenarios from the most formal of FTSE 100 board meetings to the most informal team away-days with numerous beneficial results including:

• Assisting  teams to work together better
• Increasing motivation, creativity and passion within a team
• Resolving conflict between and within groups
• Making team and client meetings more productive
• Creating workshops and seminars that produce memorable and useful results
• Increasing understanding and levels of communication
• Improving many aspects of project and programme management
• Builds consensus on any issue
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• Facilitation is fast becoming a key skill for any team or project manager.  The facilitation of groups involves assisting or guiding people in the process of change so that they achieve desired outcomes in a non-stressful manner. Facilitation can often make a process more efficient and more effective, saving time, money, and effort as well as producing better results.

Workshop Aim:

This interactive and stimulating one day course provides participants with a solid grounding in basic facilitation skills.  Participants will get the chance to design and run their own facilitation session and will come away with a variety of tools and techniques that will help you to facilitate more effectively.

Participants will learn:

• The role of the facilitator
• How to design and deliver a facilitated meeting
• Identify and manage difficult behaviour
• Develop the facilitator’s listening skills
• Develop facilitator’s questioning skills
• Learn and apply four key facilitation techniques
• How to set beneficial ground-rules
• The importance of evaluation

• Team and project managers and directors who want to improve the communication and effectiveness of their team/project
• Anyone who attends meetings and wants to learn how to make them more effective
• Anyone who organises facilitated sessions and wants to ensure their effectiveness

Tailored programmes and coaching

The core components of this workshop are delivered as a one day introductory session.  More advanced or follow-on sessions are also available for participants learn how to design and facilitate meetings, workshops and seminars.  Specific training courses can be designed to meet specific requirements. For those people who really want to hone their skills, and make significant improvement in their impact, one-to-one coaching is available for extra assistance.  We can also provide advice on planning, organising and running a meeting or workshop for maximum effectiveness.

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