Course description
Facilitation Skills: Leading Sessions & Meetings with Purpose - Live Online
This interactive Facilitation Skills workshop will provide you with a structured process for facilitating sessions of any kind, whether virtual or in person. Learn how to determine when a session is necessary and ensure it has a clear objective and purpose. With a toolkit of fundamental facilitation tools, you’ll be able to generate and organize ideas, analyze and prioritize them, and make decisions. Numerous practice exercises will provide hands-on experience. Your staff meetings, planning sessions, focus groups, community-based meetings, and all other sessions will be more meaningful and productive.
This workshop is delivered in a live online format and is also available as on-site (in person)/company specific/exclusive virtual session. For programs held or attended in Canada, listed prices will be charged in CAD. Please contact Langevin for more details.
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Who should attend?
For anyone who needs the fundamental skills and knowledge to be an effective facilitator of virtual or in-person sessions or meetings.
Training content
Objectives
- Determine if a session is necessary.
- Prepare for the session.
- Select the appropriate facilitation tools.
- Open the session.
- Apply idea-generating facilitation tools.
- Apply prioritizing and analyzing facilitation tools.
- Apply decision-making facilitation tools.
- Employ effective speaking skills.
- Apply active listening skills.
- Document session information.
- Manage challenging behaviors.
- Close the session.
What you will learn
Session 1
- How to distinguish between the process and the content of a session.
- How to determine if a session is even necessary.
- A structured facilitation process that guarantees success every time.
- 4 critical areas to consider when planning a session (with a comprehensive planning worksheet to document the details).
- How to ensure there is a meaningful purpose for your session.
- How to recognize the importance of your session objectives.
- How to write the objectives properly.
- What criteria you should consider when selecting facilitation tools to accomplish your session objective.
- How to select the most suitable tools for your session.
- 15 simple tools to generate and organize ideas.
- 15 practical tools to analyze and prioritize ideas.
- 15 proven tools to make decisions.
- A detailed process worksheet to document the critical information for all four phases of the session process.
- What to include in the agenda.
Session 2
- 8 steps to open your session effectively.
- Why you should establish ground rules.
- Tips to help you effectively manage time and adhere to your agenda.
- 12 tips to improve your speaking skills.
- 2 types of questions to promote participation.
- Active listening skills are guaranteed to encourage communication.
- 5 techniques to improve your non-verbal communication skills.
- 6 tips to help you remain neutral without appearing apathetic.
- How to document information so that it supports the session objectives.
- How to recognize challenging behaviors.
- Tips and strategies to prevent challenging behaviors.
Session 3
- 9 steps to deal with conflict during the session.
- A comprehensive checklist for closing out the session.
- A simple, yet thorough, end-of-session report to summarize the session.
- Samples of formal and informal methods for evaluating the success of your session.
- Lead and participate in multiple mini-facilitation practice opportunities.
- Practice all workshop skills and a variety of tools from the Facilitation Toolkit in an end-of-workshop simulated session.
- Receive feedback from your peers.
- Practice giving feedback on peer performance.
Why choose Langevin Learning Services Inc.?
35+ years helping learning professionals achieve success in their careers
20,000+ people have achieved Langevin's professional trainer certification
82% of Fortune 500 companies send their trainers to Langevin
Reviews
Average rating 5
This course was packed with valuable information and helpful tools while being extremely interactive and engaging. This course maintains Langevin's reputation of high quality tr...
I learned so many great tools, gained valuable feedback, and really enjoyed the class! This class helped increase my knowledge of facilitation and group dynamics, and also impro...
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Top 10 Winner - 2023
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Great course. The materials are excellent. The best part of the workshop is getting to practice leading various meeting scenarios. This is how we learn. Langevin does it so well...