A highly interactive workshop designed to prepare you for certification by the International Association of Facilitators, and enter the field of facilitation as a practitioner.
Be the FACILITATOR You Were Meant to Be:
This workshop is the state-of-the art training that has made many facilitators so successful in their organizations or in their private practice. It provides full integration of the processes, techniques and logistics of facilitation and the vocabulary of the field.
For some participants, the concepts and practices presented will be new. For others, they will confirm their current approach, and perhaps offer alternatives. For all participants, the workshop offers an integrated framework for facilitation, including the means to continuously learn new ideas for making the facilitator s work more useful to the group.
Facilitation: Processes, Techniques and Logistics also offers a standard against which to measure yourself. The Facilitator s CoreSkills Inventory consists of measurable skills. You and your personal coach get to measure your skills against the standard provided. You receive structured feedback and the means to see and understand your strengths and correct your weaknesses.
Facilitation: Processes, Techniques and Logistics is largely practice-based. Short theory sessions and demonstrations are followed by extensive hands-on practice and coaching sessions on cases. Because everyone is trying to support each other s learning, the work atmosphere is positive, engaging and motivating. For example, Days 1 through 4 conclude with the completion of a Learning Register by each participant. These are then reviewed and discussed at the beginning of the next day s session. The extensive Practice Facilitations, with video feedback, are interspersed throughout the entire program, affording participants ample hands-on opportunity to assimilate the learning s of the workshop.
Who Should Attend?
This five-day intensive program is designed for all those who are called upon to provide process facilitation to their organization. Those who will find this seminar relevant to their work include managers and practitioners in the fields of:
Planning
Change Management
Project Management
Human Resource Management
Training
Quality Assurance
Conflict Resolution
Community consultation
7 Benefits of this Workshop:
1. Help any group achieve its task
2. Continuously improve as a facilitator, coach and mentor
3. Measure your skills against a Facilitator s CoreSkill Inventory
4. Play the role of process expert for your organization or practice
5. How to choose the most appropriate approach for a group or team
6. Adopt the behaviors and mindset to facilitate with the greatest effect
7. Apply facilitation to a full range of situations from community to business
8. Use different kinds of support tools, including the computer
What you will learn at this Workshop:
- Select a process to help a work group handle a full range of situations
- Explain an approach to a group, and then guide them through it
- Focus the group s energy on what is high priority
- Help the group identify and confront its conflicts
- Build the group into a team based on the result it wishes to achieve
- Predict the potential success of the work group
- Communicate to group members their potential for achieving success
- Transfer to the group behaviours that are productive, positive and testable
- Increase the group s capacity to use reliable information
- Improve the group s capacity for undertaking complex change
- Exercise patience with groups who don t know how to do things
- Apply your facilitation skills to all walks of life
Training Avaliability and Delivery
This is a workshop seminar
This class may involve group study
Courseware may be available for purchase
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Introduction, Expectations and Values
The Facilitator s CoreSkill Inventory
The Underlying Principles of Facilitation and Group Work
Left-Right Brain Processes
Facilitation Roles Played in a Work Session
10 Fundamentals of Facilitation
10 Standards for Facilitation
Basic Action Research for Continuous Improvement
Group Principles
Universal Processes
The Coaching-Observation Process
Facilitation of Issues
Facilitation Feedback
Video Research
Day 2 Facilitating through Problems & Conflicts
The Problem Mindset and How to Cope With It
Group Think in Group Work
Roles/Responsibilities of the Facilitator
Personal Taped Feedback and Coaching
Facilitating Group Problem Solving
Working With the Difficult Participant
From Problem to Conflict
Dynamic Structuring
The Anatomy of Conflict in Groups
Facilitating Installed and Ad Hoc Group Conflict
Linkage to Decision Processes
Day 3 - Using Metrics in Facilitation
Facilitating Complex Decision Processes
Consensus Seeking by the Facilitator
Planning Actions in a Group
Aggregate Level Processes
Personal Taped Feedback
Linkage to Creativity and Innovation
Day 4 - Facilitating Group Creativity and Innovation
Facilitation of Creative Process
Setting Up for Creativity and Innovation
Brainstorming Strategies Revisited
Building Creative Energy in a Work Group
Building on an Idea
Evaluating the Idea
Taking Creative Flight for Greater Range of Ideas
Visioning the Future
Linking Creative Process to Rational
Facilitating Work Planning
Day 5 - Re-Entering the Workplace as a Facilitator
Solo Process Facilitation
Re-practice: Facilitation of Issues
Re-entry Interviews
Finding Yourself in Facilitation
Microteaching Process and Technique
Commitments to Usage
Using Computer Support for Facilitation
Guerrilla Tactics
Setting Up for More Advance Training
Re-evaluation of Facilitator CoreSkills
Evaluation of the Workshop
About RANA International Inc. - Training Provider
RANA International Inc. - RANA has been a federally incorporated 100 Canadian owned company since 1993. It has international affiliations, offering integrated organizational and management development services in Canada and abroad. We are a matrix of some twenty full time principals and affiliated consultants, all of whom have extensive experience as process consultants and organization development experts in...
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