Essence of Facilitation - August 2022
Next dates: Thursday & Friday 11-12 August 2022
Facilitation is a learned skill and one that makes a huge impact on personal and team productivity. Expert facilitators know what they want to achieve and have a tool kit of approaches to help them ensure they deliver the outcome they’re after. This programme will help you evolve your facilitation skills now and long into the future.
Whether you are an experienced facilitator looking to update your tool kit or a relative newbie to facilitation (‘1 to 1’ or ‘1 to many’), this two day programme will give you deep insight into your own practice and experiential oversight of a range of different techniques you can call on.
Each participant will have an opportunity to ‘work the group’ on a facilitation related topic so practice and session content are maximised. Participants will leave this workshop confident they have the skills to continue their own development as they support others in moving forward with theirs.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
This is a facilitated programme and as such has a loose curriculum complimented by the material brought into the room by the participants themselves.
The process is a fascinating: one of self-discovery and self-disclosure for the purpose of learning what creating safe environments is all about – a reality-based rather than theoretical methodology is used.
Real examples are worked with in the room.
WHO IS IT FOR?
People leaders who want to further deepen their understanding of the facilitation process.
This is an advanced programme although no previous facilitation experience is necessary.
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN ABOUT?
The facilitator as a leadership role
Creating safe environments
The importance of a clearly defined purpose and outcome
The facilitator’s role and influence on others
Emotional intelligence and interpersonal competency
The importance of clear instructions
The human fear response
The neuroscience of motivation
Group dynamics
Dealing with conflict
The role of intuition
Trusting the group process
The practical and the subtle aspects of effective facilitation
HOW WILL YOU BENEFIT?
Gain more confidence and competence
Develop a toolbox of useful transferable skills
Save preparation time, effort and energy
Achieve purposeful outcomes more consistently
Reduce angst and stress in preparation and in the room
Understand how to manage conflict in groups
FEEDBACK:
Having completed The Essence of Facilitation I wish it could be part of every company's staff training - very valuable information presented by Amanda in her usual inimitable style of fun, and uplifting support for all participants. I believe everyone can benefit from this little gem of a course.
Actually I’ve been to other similar training courses along my career development, e.g. Sales Training, Negotiation Skills Training. The skills they’ve taught in those courses are more on the outside and focus on the “What”. But The Essence of Facilitation is more on the inside and focus on “Why” and “How”. I’ve also realized that how communication can easily go wrong without essential messages. The other reason I liked the course is the environment created. It is a non-threatening and friendly learning environment. In a nutshell, it is a really good course that I would recommend other colleagues to attend.
