Course description
Training facilitation skills helps trainers, managers and team leaders improve their ability to engage everyone for better brainstorming and problems-solving efforts. By facilitating everyone’s participation, problems are better understood, better decisions are made and more support for solutions is achieved. Plus, the facilitation skills developed in this interactive training session helps create more effective group dynamics and improve team efforts and cohesiveness.
Develop effective facilitation and group process skills in this interactive course designed for trainers, managers, team leaders and anyone required to facilitate group activities or discussions.
In this course, we focus on developing critical skills to engage audience participation and lead discussions the get maximum results. Participants learn skills to improve listening, paraphrasing and questioning techniques that achieve learning objectives efficiently.
Upcoming start dates
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
This Facilitation Skills for Trainers and Team Leaders Course is ideal for :
- Trainers, managers, salespeople, team leaders
- Anyone who wants to improve their skills to facilitate group discussions, problem-solving and strategic planning sessions.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By the end of Facilitation Skills for Trainers and Team Leaders Course you will be able to:
- Apply effective facilitation techniques to work with groups
- Facilitate a group toward an intended outcome or learning objective
- Facilitate brainstorming, problem-solving and decision-making processes
- Build on ideas that lead to better results
- Deal with challenges to the group process
- Conduct highly interactive group discussions and training sessions
- Learn the differences between facilitating and presenting training
- Identify what good facilitation looks like
- Find out how effective facilitation process skills make work with groups more productive
- Work with ten facilitation techniques that ensure a group’s success
- Help groups grow and develop through 5 stages to productive outcomes
- Use brainstorming, problem-solving and decision-making techniques correctly
- Master the tactics of meeting facilitation: planning, climate setting, setting ground rules, etc.
Training Course Content
Day 1
What is facilitation?
- Facilitation vs. presenting training vs. team leader
- Team leaders as facilitators
- Types of facilitation
- What do facilitators do?
- Facilitation techniques
Day 2
Group dynamics and group functions
- How teams function
- How to help groups grow and be productive
- Brainstorming and problem solving techniques
- Help groups be more creative
- Consensus and other group decision making techniques
Day 3
Facilitator issues
- Meeting planning and coordination tips
- Set a productive group climate
- Establish ground rules
- Help team members to be productive
- Clarify group and leader functions
- How to select team leaders in your organization
- Deal with difficult and angry group members
Day 4
Resources- Facilitation Tool Kit
- Give Directions
- Give feedback
- Ask questions to solicit information and gain different points of view
- Listen actively
Day 5
Using group problem solving techniques
- Gaining consensus for decision making
- Overcoming common group problems
- Increase participation and commitment
- Practice
- Developing Your Action Plan
- Clarify to understand and focus
- Coach to correct mistakes
- Increase participation and commitment
- Use charting to generate discussion and verify understanding
- Co-facilitation issues
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