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Workplace Diversity Awareness ...the creativity of the organization while at the same time facilitating staff retention and productivity. This course was developed with subject matter support provided by the Employment Law Group of the law firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC. Please note, however, that the course materials and content are for informational purposes only and do not constitute legal  more...

The Facilitator Role The Facilitator Role Tired of wasting time at meetings that take too long and get too little accomplished? Learn to facilitate meetings that are both productive and time efficient. In this course, you will explore the foundations of the art of group facilitation. You will define the role of a facilitator, so that you can easily differentiate between facilitated groups and democratic or  more...

Facilitative Fundamentals Tools and Techniques Facilitative Fundamentals: Tools and Techniques You're heading into a room full of people coming at a problem from totally different perspectives. What techniques and tools will you use to create the synergy necessary to complete your mission? What do you need to get started? This second course in "The Successful Facilitator" series provides you with tips and techniques that will help you  more...

Facilitating Meetings and Work Groups ...Facilitating Meetings and Work Groups This situation is most likely familiar. You dread holding a meeting so much that you have butterflies in your stomach. People showing up whenever they get there. Trying to get everyone to agree or make a decision takes hours of discussion. No one is willing to take responsibility for action items. In this course, you will learn to avoid these and  more...

Facilitating Difficult Situations ...Facilitating Difficult Situations How do you deal with the group that has an exceptionally dominant person who doesn't let anyone else have say, or trivializes the contributions of others? How do you keep a faction from taking over? What is the best means of handling direct challenges to you or the group? What do you do when you know someone is deliberately trying to derail your meeting  more...

Facilitative Tools and Formats Offering Options .... You will examine the advantages and disadvantages of co-facilitating meetings and work groups. With that knowledge, learn to divide and coordinate who's going to do what. Gain the ability to establish boundaries for each of the facilitators and determine the most effective way to communicate with your client during this process. Another alternative you will explore is breakout groups.  more...

Facilitative Leadership Facilitative Leadership Have you worked in this organization? You don't explain what you're doing because people will steal your ideas. It's best just to go along with whatever the majority wants, even if you can see some real problems down the road. No one will take responsibility for the results unless they're good, then everyone takes a share. If you've experienced any of these situations  more...

Completing Outbound Sales Calls Completing Outbound Sales Calls You might have heard the saying, "it ain't over 'til it's over." This is especially true with inside sales calls. To be a successful inside sales consultant, you need to know how to keep your customer's attention all the way through the close of the sale. In this course, you will learn strategies for contacting the decision maker and for dealing with  more...

Developing a High-Performance Organization Developing a High-Performance Organization Helping your organization to reach its full potential is among your most important responsibilities as a leader. In a modern competitive business environment, tapping an organization's potential for high performance not only helps it to be more competitive but also helps it to better respond to and manage the influence of external factors. In short,  more...

Managing Internal Dynamics in a Cross-Functional Team Managing Internal Dynamics in a Cross-Functional Team One of the greatest benefits of cross-functional teams is the diversity of viewpoints, experience, and backgrounds among team members. But this can also prove to be their biggest weakness if not managed properly. Negative interpersonal dynamics can steer the work of a cross-functional team off-track quickly and irreversibly, jeopardizing  more...

Build Your Own BIZ - Performance Improvement This course will help you facilitate performance appraisals with your workforce.You will receive as a bonus 1 year unlimited access to this course from the day of enrollment. If attempting to accelerate your learning (1-2 weeks or less), please pay special attention to key points so you may successfully apply the information gained from this course to your particular business situation.  more...

Strategies for Facilitating Critical Thinking "Workplaces are not typically associated with reflection or critical self-reflection, ideas that are often considered 'soft' to the bottom-line, results-oriented world of business.... Yet, paradoxically, reflection is becoming more part of the lifeblood of organizations in today's economic environment." Victoria Marsick's words illustrate why businesses can no longer thrive on the unexamined  more...

Goal Setting Reaching Individual Goals ...er of your team to help her set personal goals. Unit 3: Facilitating Effective Goal Setting (1 - 2 hours) Identify the areas for which you should set self-development goals. Identify the guidelines for increasing goal-achievement probability. Utilize the guidelines for increasing goal-achievement probability.  more...

Conducting Meetings The Meeting Process ... for establishing the purpose and agenda of a meeting and facilitating participants' progress toward the meeting goals. Learn To Define and communicate the purpose, objective, setting, and agenda for a meeting. Ensure that best practices are followed for meeting procedures, such as taking minutes, keeping discussions focused, and  more...

Facilitation The Facilitation Process ... convergent thinking, and the process you should use when facilitating a team. Unit 2: Preparing to Facilitate (0.5 - 1 hour) Differentiate among the methods for interviewing team members. Identify characteristics of an effective agenda. Use structural tools to enhance your role as a facilitator.  more...

Facilitation Facilitating Challenging Situations ...Facilitating Challenging Situations, participants will learn how to handle several challenging situations that they may encounter while facilitating. Specifically, they will learn how to handle difficult team members, the best way to confront team resistance, and the most effective way to resolve conflicts among team members. Learn To Apply steps to  more...

Cross-Functional Teams Cross-Functional Team Development ...ings. Identify the seven steps for facilitating a team meeting. Facilitate a team meeting. Simulation Overview: In this simulation, you will be meeting with Monica Washington, Icon's Sales Manager, Terry Jones, the Marketing Manager, and Drew Canfield, the Director of Product Development. You have  more...

Facilitation Series The Facilitation Series includes the following courses: Facilitation: The Effective Facilitator Facilitation: The Facilitation Process Facilitation: Facilitating Challenging Situations To review individual course descriptions, please return to the previous page and select the desired title(s).  more...

Facilitating Effective Hiring The most important part of recruiting is choosing the right candidate to help your business prosper and grow. The company's recruiter is the front line to finding quality employees. Keys to facilitating effective hiring decisions include thinking through the hiring process, having a well thought-out job description, and using sound screening practices. These activities are an intrinsic part of the  more...

Special Design Tools Creative solutions to problems are easily recognizable, after they have been created. But how does one arrive at the solution in the first place? This course examines how TRIZ and axiomatic design have been developed to aid design decision making and related problem solving. It looks at the work of Genrich Altshuller, an engineer born in the former Soviet Union in 1926, who worked in the Soviet  more...