Surrey Learn

Facilitation Skills - Online

Category

Personal Effectiveness

Audience

Anyone involved in the group facilitation process and/or who seeks to develop the knowledge and skills required to professionally facilitate consultations/meetings/workshops involving various groups of people.

Duration

1 day

Delegate rate

Approximately £100 per day per delegate. Charges depend on how many delegates book.

  • To ensure the effective running of meetings and projects
  • To effectively utilize team strengths
  • To develop facilitation skill
  • To understand my facilitation style
  • To identify key facilitation tools
  • To understand the importance of process
  • To effectively handle difficult situations

Introduction

  • The facilitator’s role
  • Aims of facilitation
  • The facilitation process

Key areas of intervention

  • Establishing/clarifying objectives
  • Ensuring a practical process
  • Developing an understanding of roles
  • Maintaining effective interpersonal skills

Facilitation skills

  • Understanding myself as a facilitator
  • Listening and questioning
  • Clarifying and summarising
  • Constructive challenge
  • Building trust

Team process

  • Defining the process
  • Problem solving
  • Tools and techniques

Handling difficult situations

  • Open disagreements
  • Personality clashes
  • Difficult people
  • Hidden agendas
  • Silent fragmentation
  • Lack of team focus
  • Lack of ownership of poor results

Action planning

Dates

No dates are currently scheduled for this course.

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