Facilitation Style and Techniques

Meetings, workshop, and impromptu sessions are great opportunities to innovate, solve problems and make decisions with the collective intelligence of a group. On the other hand, these gatherings are also a frequent source of frustration that many people would rather avoid, protecting their productive working hours.

This underscores the importance and power of facilitation – the art of making group discussions participative and more effective.

This course aims to train leaders how to manage the environment to bring focus, process, respect, and empowerment to the group. It will show you how to harness the collective mind in these sessions through preparation, focus, managing group dynamics, and closing of the session.

• Importance of preparation in meetings and workshop sessions
• How to understand the session objectives through the stakeholders
• The art of igniting, exciting, empowering, and involving
• Establishing the direction and path
• Techniques for keeping and giving control
• How to ask great questions, listen, and connect
• Effective management of disruptive behavior
• Strategies for gaining consensus
• How to keep energy levels up in the session
• Creating the right agenda for the session
• How to manage and influence group dynamics

Leaders wishing to harness and lead discussions aimed to empower those involved as a means to achieve results.