Developing Facilitation Skills
Facilitation is frequently described as the new foundation of management philosophy. It focuses on equality and establishing an effortless decision-making process. Creating a relaxed environment through improved facilitation will give participants an improved understanding of what a great facilitator can do to enhance gatherings, meetings, and employee training.
This course can help any business to make good quality decisions. It will provide participants with knowledge and tools on the concept of facilitation. A solid understating of how a facilitator can control a room and determine the pace of a meeting will allow participants to become better facilitators.
Course Objectives:
- Describe facilitation and recognize its purpose and benefits.
- Understand the role and focus of a facilitator.
- Distinguish between process and content in the framework of a group discussion.
- Discover a facilitator’s role when managing groups in each of Tuckman and Jensen’s stages of group development: forming, storming, norming, and performing.
- Detect ways a facilitator can assist a group in reaching a consensus: from promoting participation in selecting a solution.
- Offer guidelines in dealing with interruptions, dysfunctions, and challenging people in groups.
- Describe what interventions are, when they are suitable, and how to execute them.