Facilitation skills

Engage the group, create synergy, maximise output

This course covers the advanced skill of facilitation. This is an invaluable programme for anyone who has to facilitate external workshops for example for consortia, clients, conferences and professional events. It will also help managers and professionals facilitate internal discussion groups and meetings.

Highly practical, it gives delegates plenty of opportunity to practice facilitating and to receive feedback on their performance.

Our facilitation skills course outline includes:

• Key points to remember when ‘presenting’
• How adults learn

- barriers to learning
- learning styles

• ‘Pre-workshop preparation’

- Objectives
- Structure/framework
- Defining boundaries and giving clear instructions
- Timing
- Recording of ideas
- Choice of exercises/tools
- Conclusions

• ‘On the day’

- Managing the process – key skills of facilitation:
- Content and process
- More on skills and techniques
- ‘Handling difficult situations’
- Open Forum
- Action Planning

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