All Together Now: Stellar Facilitation Skills One-day Seminar

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Continuing Education for Technical Professionals

Superb Team Meetings: Facilitating Like a Pro

1-day Workshop

This course can be customized to meet your needs, and is delivered at most locations internationally.

Contact us for more information.

What People Said About Superb Team Meetings

"Great job on the facilitation tips. I’ve been facilitating a long time but I picked up many good tips and ideas today."

"I really enjoyed this class. It is very informative and will benefit me at work."

"I thought it was great! Lots of excellent ideas. Thanks."

Course Description

While we spend a lot of time in meetings, very few of us are experts when it comes to consistently running them most effectively. This workshop helps participants get the most out of the benefits that group processes offer. The meeting facilitator’s role is the centerpiece of this workshop. You will learn techniques from a professional facilitator that will enable you to improve in the three equally important phases of a meeting: preparation, conducting the meeting, and follow through.

Throughout this session, you will experience how to engage everyone, explore all ideas and achieve quick solutions. You will leave the workshop with readily applicable skills and tools that you can apply immediately.

Benefits

This course enables participants to:

Use new skills for managing group processes as a leader or facilitator

Get a group "unstuck" and on its way to solutions

Make consensus practical

Gain deeper insight into group dynamics

Help participants understand the various ways that groups arrive at important decisions

Who should attend:

Project Managers
Project / Team leads
Managers
Supervisors
Human Resources professionals
Business leadership
Anyone who leads group meetings

Instructor: Chris Sheesley

Course Content

Common Problems with Group Process
Why We Hate Meetings
Meeting Successes and Travesties
Making Effective Meetings
Group Development and Functioning

Decision Making Theory
Four Options for Making Organizational Decisions
A Closer Look at Consensus
The Ups and Downs of Consensus

The Facilitator Mindset
Deep, Focused Listening
Neutrality: Staying Out of the Debate
Focusing on People, Process and Product

Pre-Facilitation
Creating a Purpose for the Meeting
Pre-Determining Outcomes
Identifying the Right Process

Inevitable Problems
Dealing with Dominators
Drawing out Introverts
Smoothing Discord
Redirecting Diversions

Facilitating Step by Step
Define the Issue
Expand Options
Make Decisions
Extra Facilitator Tricks
Ending a Meeting

Our Guarantee

If for any reason you are not satisfied, write to us within 30 days after the workshop and return the course materials and we'll arrange for you to receive a full refund - hassle-free!

Fee includes a comprehensive workbook and email/phone follow-up with the instructor after the workshop to assist with implementation. This workshop can be customized to meet your needs, and is delivered at most locations internationally.

Contact us for more information.