This course is for anyone who wants to improve their skills in working with groups, holding meetings, delivering training events, or running team building sessions.
Aims and objectives:
- To define facilitation in the context of helping groups progress
- To become familiar with the five core skills of an effective facilitator
- To understand the thinking behind successful facilitation processes
- To practice a process technique and the core skills with a ‘live’ group
- To identify individual facilitation strengths and areas for development
- To complete a personal facilitation plan for a specific event
Content:
- Defining facilitation
- Facilitation principles
- Structures for effective facilitation
- Neutrality
- Observation
- Questioning & probing
- Global listening
- Delivering feedback to groups
- A facilitation demonstration
- Opportunities to practice