Facilitating Group Collaboration

Did you know that many judge your effectiveness and leadership skills by how well you run your meetings? The key to a successful group session is having an effective facilitator who can organize the meeting, control it and skillfully guide the team towards achieving their goal for the session. You may think ‘We already know how to facilitate group sessions’ but you will be surprised at the statistics and costs of how many meetings we all attend yet how little of them are actually effective in terms of reaching their goal! The goal of this course is to teach you the most effective facilitation techniques that will ensure your group sessions are focused and produce value. You will learn creative techniques and ‘Thinklet’ activities you can use to look like a pro in any meeting! This course is unique and uses extensive workshops and live demos to teach the key skills needed. | VIEW SCHEDULE | VIEW DETAILED OUTLINE | REQUEST A QUOTE

What You’ll Learn

• Understand the fundamentals of collaboration and facilitation.
• Understand the main roles required for effective facilitation of group sessions.
• Learn the ‘House of Skills’ necessary for being an effective facilitator.
• Understand the concept of Facilitator / Servant Leadership.
• Learn how to effectively initiate and prepare for a group sessions.
• Learn the most effective “Listening” and “Questioning” techniques used to control the meeting process and attendees.
• Learn the 5 Patterns of Group Collaboration.
• Learn the most effective “Thinklets” used for gathering and processing information in a small or large group setting.
• Learn how to handle the most common group dysfunctions.
• Learn how to manage and resolve conflict and build consensus.

Additional Topics:

• Facilitating Group Sessions for distributed teams.
• Facilitating phone conference calls.

Who should attend? Project Managers, Business Analyst, Executives, Managers, Team Leaders and Consultants responsible for leading group sessions.

Duration: 2 Days
Cost: $900/student, Group discounts available.

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Why This Course?

• Our course is 60% highly interactive group workshops!
• You will learn using our very effective Explain-Live Demo-Practice method of teaching!
• You will receive our most valuable “Effective Facilitator Cheat Sheet” handout!
• You will receive our colored “Thinklet” cards that will guide you step by step on when, why and how to use the information gathering techniques you will learn!
• You will receive the best selling book “The Effective Facilitator’s Guide for Participatory-Decision Making.”
• Taught by our dynamic, high energy practicing facilitator!
• Check out this course evaluations & testimonies!

15 Group Workshops Included!

• Workshop 1 - Personal Objectives
• Workshop 2 - Collaboration Challenges
• Workshop 3 – Benchmarking Your Facilitation Skills
• Workshop 4 – Self Assessment & Action Plan
• Workshop 5 – Preparing for a Group Session
• Workshop 6 - Exploring Process Facilitation Techniques
• Workshop 7 – Facilitating the Process
• Workshop 8 – Managing Dysfunctional Behavior
• Workshop 9 – Assessing Your Listening Skills
• Workshop 10 – Managing Conflict & Developing Inclusive Solutions
• Workshop 11 – Facilitate a “Generate” Brainstorming Session
• Workshop 12 – Facilitate a “Converage” & Organize Session
• Workshop 13 – Facilitate a “Evaluate & Build Consensus” Session
• Workshop 14 – Closing the Session
• Workshop 15 – Putting it ALL together