Advanced Facilitation Skills
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Having advanced facilitation skills is essential for you to be able to create positive and effective interactions combined with accurate and timely decision-making. This in-depth, 2-day course in New Zealand will prepare you to handle most facilitation tasks and includes specific techniques and tools that allows managers to become excellent facilitators in both training and non-training environments.
The PD Training Advanced Facilitation Skills Training course is designed to develop a deeper understanding of facilitation such as group preparation, managing perspectives, building agreements, defining roles and other skills which allow professional facilitators to interact as required in any situation.
This course is intended for facilitators wishing to increase their skills and provides participants with tools they can apply on-the-job (and in other contexts) the very next day.
Ideally, you should have completed the Facilitation Skills Training course or already have experience working as a Facilitator.
In this course participants will:
- Distinguish facilitation from instruction and training
- Identify the competencies linked to effective small group facilitation
- Understand the difference between content and process
- Understand the stages of team development and ways to help teams through each stage
- Use common process tools to make meetings easier and more productive
- Define your role in facilitating
- Establish ground rules
- Develop content and process
- Deal with controversial issues and divergent perspectives
- Develop communication skills
- Find for common ground
- Use common facilitation techniques
- Give effective feedback
- Understand facilitation vocabulary
- Deal with difficult people and situations
- Build sustainable agreements
- Understand the stages of team development
- Use analysis tools
Skill development in facilitation is essential for performing expertly in New Zealand. During this 2-Day, deep dive training course in facilitation skills, participants learn to distinguish facilitation from instruction and training, establish ground rules, develop facilitation techniques, give effective feedback, understand the stages of team development and much more.
After completing this course, participants will have learned to:
Topic 1: The Trusted Conductor
- A Framework for Facilitating with Complexity
- Group Capacities
- REACH Review, understand your strengths, recognise other people's styles and needs.
- Assessing and Convening
- Reflection
Topic 2: Divergent Thinking
- Listing Ideas - Brainstorming
- Small Group Work
- Individual Writing
- Gap Analysis
- Reflection
Topic 3: Convergent Thinking
- Affinity Diagram
- Pre-Defined Criteria
- Straw Votes
- Gap Analysis
- Paradigm Shifting
- Paradigm Shifting Techniques
- Critical Reasoning
- Reflection
Topic 4: Arriving at a Decision
- Decision Rules
- Decision Rules and High Stakes Decisions
- Scales of Agreement
- Reflection
Topic 5: People Management Strategies
- When and How to Intervene
- Groupthink
- Reflection
Topic 6: Facilitating Specific Processes
- Strategic Planning
- Process Improvement
- Force Field Analysis
- Reflection
Topic 7: Reflections
- Create an Action Plan
- References
- Small classes, average 5 people, max 16
- Prices excl. GST
- Lunch and refreshments included
- Certificate of Completion (always available in the App)
- Comprehensive courseware available in the App
- Pay on Invoice or by Credit Card