Facilitation is fast becoming a core competency for anyone who leads a team, coordinates a committee or manages a project. In fact it’s impossible to create buy-in, set group goals or solve complex problems without highly developed facilitation skills.

This fast paced, experiential workshop provides an overview of the role of the facilitator, plus opportunities for practice using a wide range of tools and techniques. Through small group exercises, you will gain first hand knowledge about the critical importance of facilitation in building and sustaining effective project teams.

Target Audience

Project leaders and project team members

Length of Workshop

2 Days

Learning Objectives

The major learning objectives for the workshop include:

• Acquire essential facilitator tools
• Leading the team decision-making process
• Strategies for common team challenges
• Managing conflict in a group
• Strategies for peak team performance in all phases of team development

What You Will Learn

HOW TO:

• Understand and employ the role of the facilitator
• Build and maintain a high performance project team
• Use a flexible set of tools and techniques to provide structure
• Lead group discussions
• Strategies to use at different stages of your project team's development
• Make decisions and overcome barriers to consensus
• Constructively deal with conflict and overcome resistance
• Facilitation strategies to deal with common project team dilemmas like building buy-in

PDU's

14 Units

Prerequisites

None

Materials Provided

Workshop notebook, Facilitation at a Glance!