Course description
Developing Effective Facilitation Skills
At Bristol Business School, our portfolio of open programmes offers you and your business a flexible learning solution. We have a variety of programmes covering a wide range of topics including Finance, Strategy, Marketing, Leadership, Coaching and Mentoring, Innovation, and Design Thinking, among many others. Our programmes are delivered by experienced practitioners and academics who combine cutting-edge thinking with a practical, real-world focus to help meet professional and industry needs.
Programme Introduction
This exciting new programme delivered by the Faculty of Business and Law at UWE Bristol seeks to develop facilitation skills through the group facilitation method of action learning. Using individually-owned problems and issues from your learning set, you will develop the core skills of listening, articulation, and questioning to analyse and develop strategies for managing these challenges. In addition you will develop the vital skills of giving and receiving feedback, synthesising learning points and reflective abilities, which will be practised directly and indirectly in a safe environment through peer discussions in your action learning sets.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who is it for?
This programme is ideal for individuals in an organisational development role or service improvement role as well as anyone else involved in leading and/or implementing change and transformational initiatives. It is essential for leaders and managers who are seeking to develop solid facilitation skills and who want to learn how to use action learning as a methodology to accelerate the problem solving process and further develop the individuals and teams they lead.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Through active engagement in the sessions, you will build your confidence in delivering learning through facilitation and learning through doing. The programme provides a strong basis to develop your skills and expertise as a facilitator.
Training Course Content
- Types of facilitative approaches
- Examples of models of research into action learning to be able to contribute to performance improvement
- Concepts of power and authority and power dynamics
- Cultural issues working with a diverse workforce
- Personal beliefs and values and their source and effect on attitudes and behaviours
- Communication theories, including verbal and non-verbal communication skills
- Behaviours to encourage social interaction, openness, honesty, and trust and their significance in ALF
- Managing yourself and your time in order to build and maintain effective networks
- Strategies and practices for building effective relationships
- Strategies and techniques for improving the effectiveness of networks
- Determining appropriate action learning styles and methods
Expenses
Course Price: £585