Course description
This course is designed to help delegates prepare and deliver effective, interesting, and memorable facilitation sessions, using the Jim Rough dynamic facilitation methodology. It will develop facilitators’ skills to help people face difficult issues creatively and collaboratively to achieve unanimous, agreed solutions. Regardless of the complexity of the topics being facilitated, this course will equip facilitators with the tools and techniques to bring about successful outcomes through thorough exploration of all participants ideas about possible problems, concerns, and solutions.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is for anyone who runs facilitation sessions as part of their role. Anyone who wishes to improve on their existing skill or prepare to begin facilitating will benefit from this course
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By the end of this course delegates will:
- Be equipped to plan and deliver a range of facilitation sessions well.
- Have the appropriate knowledge skills and behaviours to be an excellent Facilitator.
- Understand how to assess and choose the right facilitation techniques and tools for the occasion.
- Channel nervous energy positively.
- Be able to effectively engage all participants.
- Be able to use dynamic facilitation skills that inspire participants to collaborate.
- Be creative and ultimately produce excellent outcomes for participants and their organisation.
Training Course Content
An Introduction to Facilitation Skills
- Explore why facilitation skills are important to your organisation.
- Discuss what being an effective facilitator achieves for you individual.
- Discuss the differences between training, presenting, and facilitating.
- Explore the knowledge, skills, and behaviours of good facilitators.
- Consider your own skill gaps in this context and how you can develop these.
- Identify the barriers to being an effective facilitator.
- Learn techniques to overcome them.
Steps in preparation
- Identifying the purpose and objectives
- The kinds of information and data that would be useful to know.
- Consider your audience.
- Pre-event consultations
- The Opening Stage
- Introducing the process
- The art of “taking all sides”.
- Getting everyone’s contributions.
- Charting all contributions including problem statements, concerns, solutions and other information.
- Welcoming concerns and new problem statements
- Working with advocacy
- Drawing out group divergence and convergence
- Maintaining a safe interactive and productive environment
- Trusting the group to own the process.
- Looking for a breakthrough.
- Using outcome charts
- Using bookmark charts
- Agreeing actions / next steps and the importance of follow up.
Course delivery details
This course will help delegates to become dynamic facilitators who can facilitate a variety of facilitation events from simple one-off interventions to a more complex series of events.
Continuing Studies
We offer optional follow-up coaching with the tutor. Our tutor will attend or delegates will record and submit two facilitation session they conduct over the 3 months following their training. The tutor will provide delegates with feedback and coaching on the sessions and learning to date.
There is also the option of running follow up action learning sets for organisations who purchase this course for in-house delivery to their staff.
Pricing is available on request for either of the above follow up options.
There is also a two-day programme which includes communication skills, and a practical practice activity.
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