Effective facilitation skills are a highly desirable attribute for individuals who wish to manage meetings and planning sessions in New Zealand for more timely and productive outcomes. Facilitating is more than just setting a meeting time. It requires skills in presentation, negotiation, elaboration and communicating with stake holders.

The PD Training Facilitation Skills Training Course teaches you practical techniques like choosing a facilitated approach, encouraging participation and gathering information, addressing disruptions, using reframing techniques, using intervention when required and much more.

This is a practical class that is suitable for all audiences, and provides participants with tools they can apply on-the-job (and in other contexts) the very next day.

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Facilitation is often referred to as the new cornerstone of management philosophy in New Zealand. With its focus on fairness and creating easy decision making, proper facilitation can help any organisation make better decisions.

This Facilitation training course will give participants an understanding of what facilitation is all about, as well as some tools that they can use to facilitate small meetings. Learn about promoting and managing group participation, collecting evidence and gaining "buy-in", how to stay on track and remove distractions, handling difficult people and much more.

After completing this course, participants will have learned to: