Facilitation Skills Training

This Facilitation Skills training course provides leaders or managers with the ability to guide, assist or make it easy for their groups or teams to achieve their goals through productive and efficient meetings, planning sessions and related activities.

The PD Training Facilitation Skills course covers the following topics: definition and purpose of facilitation, role of the facilitator, the various tools and techniques to be used for effective facilitation, how to deal with disruptions and difficult group members, managing expectations and much more.

This comprehensive 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 something more advanced? Try the Advanced Facilitation Skills Training Course

Your Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will:

  • Define facilitation & identify its purpose
  • Understand the benefits of good facilitation
  • Master the role & focus of a facilitator
  • Differentiate between process & content of a group discussion
  • Learn effective tools for preparing for an effective facilitation session
  • Master techniques for effective facilitation from Tuckman & Jensen's stages of group development (forming, storming, norming & performing)
  • Learn how to help a group reach a consensus and a final solution, by encouraging participation
  • Practice techniques for dealing with disruptions, dysfunctions & difficult people in a group setting
  • Define what interventions are, when they are appropriate and learn how to implement them

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Plus the workshops are always tailored to your current context

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12-months access to the unique REACH Future Proofing Personal Development Dashboard with personally curated learning to develop agility to adapt to different people tasks and situations.

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Facilitation is often referred to as the new cornerstone of management philosophy. With its focus on fairness and creating easy decision making, facilitation can make any organization make better decisions.

This Facilitation training course will give participants an understanding of what facilitation is all about, as well as some tools that they can use to facilitate small meetings.

Looking for something more advanced? Try the Advanced Facilitation Skills Training Course

See the Live Online tab for the course outline for the live online course

Course Outline for Facilitation Skills Training

After completing this course, participants will have learned to:

Topic 1

The Peaceful Warrior

  • The Role and Purpose of Facilitating
  • The Limits of Facilitation
  • Qualities of Effective Facilitation
  • REACH Review – Facilitation Preferences
  • Reflection

Topic 2

Just Add People and Stir

  • The Ideal World
  • The Real World
  • Reflection

Topic 3

Trusting in the Process

  • Preparation
  • Starting Off
  • The Middle Bit
  • The End Bit
  • I Never Agreed to That! (keeping records)
  • Reflection

Topic 4

Making Decisions

  • Tell Me Again, Why are We Here?
  • Divergent and Convergent Thinking
  • Building Consensus and Inclusive Solutions
  • Reflection

Topic 5

Maximising Interaction

  • Exercising Control
  • Encouraging Participation
  • Dealing with Challenges
  • Reflection

Topic 6

Virtual facilitation

  • Preparation
  • Technology
  • Maintaining Engagement
  • Reflection

Topic 7

Reflections

  • Create an Action Plan
  • Accountability = Action
  • References

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Plus you’ll also receive:

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Money Back
Guarantee

If you’re not happy with the outcomes from
the course we offer a money back guarantee

profiles

REACH
Profiles

For every participant
valued at $199 each

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Sick Day
Safety Net

No one left behind
with our 1/2 price re-run promise

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Development
Dashboard

12-months access to the unique REACH Future Proofing Personal Development Dashboard with personally curated learning to develop agility to adapt to different people tasks and situations.

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We create training that meets your needs.

1-hour Motivator

3-hour Power Sessions

Full Day Training

Conferences & Summits

  • OFFSITE
  • AT YOUR WORKPLACE
  • ONLINE

We’ll make things easier so you can focus on adding more value

We take care of all of the details, so you don’t have to:

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    In Sheet
  • Generate Branded
    Course Flyers
  • PDF’S of
    Certificates
  • Collects and
    Reports Feedback
  • Complete Results
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What are people going to do differently?

At the completion of training participants are encouraged to create an action plan, and invite an accountability buddy via their Orgmenta App.

In your Training Management Centre you have transparency to the action plans so you can see what people are going to do differently.

Want to get clear on impacts and measure success? We support you.

Our systems and people make it easy to identify how you’ll be able to measure impacts and then report on the success in the weeks or months after training.

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It’s surprisingly easy to make it so that your system can automatically be up to date with all the training record details you need.

More than just a training provider - we are your learning and development partner.

We look forward to working with you, talk to one of our friendly expert consultants today.
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Details:

  • Small classes, average 5 people, max 16
  • Certificate of Completion (always available in the App)
  • Comprehensive courseware available in the App

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Upcoming Live Classes

Live Online

3-hour course

10:00 am - 1:00 pm America/Los_Angeles

USD450.00

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Course Outline for Facilitation Skills Training

After completing this course, participants will have learned to:

Topic 1

Making Decisions

  • Tell Me Again, Why are We Here?
  • Divergent and Convergent Thinking
  • Building Consensus and Inclusive Solutions
  • Reflection

Topic 2

Maximising Interaction

  • Exercising Control
  • Encouraging Participation
  • Dealing with Challenges
  • Reflection

Topic 3

Virtual facilitation

  • Preparation
  • Technology
  • Maintaining Engagement
  • Reflection

When you book a Public Class with PD Training you can expect:

To Be Engaged All Day

Activities and discussion for engaged learning all day.

An outstanding trainer

On average PDT trainers have 15 years industry experience and 7 years training experience.

Focussed on you

We always tailor activities and scenarios to be relevant to you.

Refresher Course $0

In-House and Public Class participants are welcome to join a public class in the same topic for 12 months.

Acclaimed Provider

The confidence of booking with an acclaimed multi-national training company.

Multi-modal Reinforcement

Support, reinforcement & extension eLearning and videos in the App.

Outstanding learning that people can do in the flow of work

  • Fresh targeted video-based microlearning content with interactive lessons and quizzes included.
  • Rigourous review process
  • Only $11.00 per course per person per year
  • Or get the $110.00 bundle and save

Asking Questions

The most important foundation for communication and building meaningful relationships is listening, develop your skills with this micro eLearning course.

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