This Advanced Facilitation Skills Training course is designed to help managers and other company leaders become more effective facilitators. The Advanced Course by PD Training covers the following topics: the role of a facilitator, how to differentiate facilitation from instruction and training, the various facilitation tools and techniques and a deep understanding of facilitation vocabulary.  You also learn how to use facilitation skills in managing perspectives, group preparation, building agreements, defining roles and common grounds and leading other group activities. This in-depth, 2-day training course is available across the U.S., including Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Birmingham, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Jackson, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Miami, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, San Antonio and Seattle.

Looking for an introductory facilitation course? Try the Facilitation Skills Training Course

Your Learning Outcomes

This short and dynamic training course is the fastest way to develop skills in effective facilitation so that goals can be reached on time, every time.

After completing this course, participants will have learned to:

• Distinguish facilitation from instruction and training
• Identify the competencies linked to effective small group facilitation
• Understand the difference between content and process
• Understand the stages of team development and ways to help teams through each stage
• Use common process tools to make meetings easier and more productive
• Define your role in facilitating
• Establish ground rules
• Develop content and process
• Deal with controversial issues and divergent perspectives
• Develop communication skills
• Find for common ground
• Use common facilitation techniques
• Give effective feedback
• Understand facilitation vocabulary
• Deal with difficult people and situations
• Build sustainable agreements
• Understand the stages of team development
• Use analysis tools