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Good meetings don't just happen. Statistics show that American professionals lose an average of 31 hours per month in unproductive meetings. Leaders with outstanding facilitation skills are key to productive meetings that save time and money by increasing meeting focus and efficiency.
The Facilitation4Results family of courses gives participants common sense processes they can use immediately to facilitate and support facilitation in their organizations. They come away from these courses with new skills, enhanced confidence, and a complete course manual providing samples, templates and facilitation guides.
All courses are taught exclusively by International Association of Facilitators (IAF) Certified Professional Facilitators. This offers you the most practical, results-driven instruction available. In addition, we provide coaching and assistance after the class in preparing meeting agendas and process guides, and talking through issues you may have with upcoming meetings, all at no extra charge!
Courses Available:
Facilitation4Results
This three-day basic course offers a combination of presentation and hands-on exercises that give students what they need to facilitate in their organizational environments. They come away with new skills, enhanced confidence, and a complete course manual providing samples, templates, and facilitation guides.
Facilitation4Results is the first basic facilitation course in North America developed on the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) core competencies for professional certification (http://www.iaf-world.org/i4a/pages/Index.cfm). All the people who have completed this course and have stood for professional facilitator certification have successfully become Certified Professional Facilitators – a 100% success rate!
Course Objectives:
- Understand how to work with meeting sponsors and the people for whom the meeting results are most important
- Understand the role of the neutral facilitator in collaborative group environments
- Learn key facilitation techniques and processes, such as consensus building, conflict management, and decision-making
- Learn how to avoid common facilitation and meeting management pitfalls
- Practice and receive feedback on your personal facilitation techniques
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Offered as a Three-day Public Course | | $1095/person | |
As a Two-day Private, In-house Course | | $7000/16 participants | |
As a Three-day Private, In-house Course | | $10,000/16 participants
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Advanced Skills4Facilitators
This challenging two-day "customized-to-the-student" class is a perfect next step for organizations with a cadre of in-house facilitators and for those practicing facilitators considering the pursuit of professional certification from the International Association of Facilitators (IAF). Participants spend two days learning and practicing advanced core competencies, facilitation processes and techniques.
Prior to taking the course, participants will identify areas for improvement through personal interviews and mock client-sponsor interviews with instructors. They will prepare a mock facilitation event beforehand, deliver their prep materials and meeting design to instructors for review, and facilitate their workshops as a part of the course. Class size is 5-10 people to enable participants to receive a great deal of personalized coaching and peer feedback.
Course Objectives:
- Learn advanced facilitation session preparation techniques
- Demonstrate advanced facilitation skills and receive feedback
- Understand how to relate the IAF Core Competencies, Statement of Values and Code of Ethics to the facilitation practices of individual participants
- Gain resources for advanced meeting processes and tools
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Offered as a Two-day Public Course | | $795/person | |
As a Two-day Private, In-house Course | | $7000/16 participants
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Facilitative Leadership4Managers
Facilitation as a core competency is still new in many organizations. Managers often struggle to use facilitation resources effectively to add organizational value through collaboration and facilitation. A key skill for managers is understanding their role as meeting sponsors. This one-day, highly interactive course is designed specifically for organizational leaders tasked with producing quality work through collaborative teams working with facilitators.
Course Objectives:
- Understand the impact of the leader's role in team success.
- Understand how to utilize facilitators as collaborative management tools.
- Understand collaborative team processes and the various roles involved in producing work collaboratively.
- Understand which managed tasks are best done independently by someone and which are best done interdependently through collaborative teams.
- Understand how to estimate meeting costs and the return on investment from collaborative efforts.
Offered as a One-day, Private, In-house Course $4000/16 participants
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Facilitation4Global Meetings
Getting the results you need is hard enough in face-to-face meetings. Now you are being asked to produce effective meeting results using an assortment of electronic tools that can save time and money, but can lose productivity. Facilitator4hire’s one-day class, Facilitation4Global Meetings, teaches you the fundamental skills for getting the results you need from telephone conference calls, web and video meetings.
Course Objectives:
- Understand the role of the Global Meeting Leader before the meeting
- Learn key Ground Rules for running Global Meetings
- Learn basic remote meeting facilitation skills
- Learn techniques for generating and documenting information during Global Meetings
- Practice and receive feedback
Offered as a One-day, Private, In-house Course $4000/16 participants
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Facilitation4Agile Projects
Human interactions are the way we get work done and the way decisions are made in Agile software development projects, where we place interactions over documentation and collaboration over contracts. So, our meetings for ANY Agile Project decision points need to be lean, focused, and productive. Agile teams with outstanding collaboration skills hold the true key to making their projects work. This two-day course, “Facilitation4Agile Projects,” demystifies the “art” of collaboration with common-sense skills and processes to use again and again in every Agile collaborative interaction.
Course Objectives:
- Validate the human interaction events of an Agile project team
- Understand the role of collaboration and consensus in your organization
- Learn key techniques and processes to use in Agile project collaborations
- Practice and receive feedback on these techniques
Offered as a Two-day, Private, In-house Course $7000/16 participants
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Facilitation4Trainers
Becoming a "Facilitative Trainer" is a stretch for many who are faced with the business pressures that dictate "spoon-feeding" learners and cause trainers to lose sight of a key axiom for learning: The responsibility for learning is on the learner. The first step to becoming a Facilitative Trainer is to understand who or what you are currently. As David Gibson says, "Are you the 'Guide on the Side' or 'The Sage on the Stage'?" Now you know how far you have to journey to truly help learners learn for themselves, and retain useful information and skills.
This course is designed to help you figure out where you are on the "Sage" to "Guide" curve, and to give you the opportunity to discover and practice those facilitative tools and techniques which will allow your learners to get the most from the learning experience you create for them.
Course Objectives:
- Improve training delivery skills through the application of facilitative techniques
- Learn key facilitation techniques and processes that apply to adult learning environments
- Learn how to avoid common facilitation pitfalls
- Practice and receive feedback on facilitative training techniques and processes
Course Methodology:
Facilitation4Trainers heightens the facilitation skills of individuals who train within your enterprise. We offer a core competency-based curriculum mapped to the International Association of Facilitator's schema for certification of professional facilitators. Our instructors are experienced with "Train the Trainer" coaching, and teach with a high-energy and highly interactive style, maximizing the trainer's experience through the application of sound adult learning techniques. Each session is customized based on the specific needs of the training organization to speed the process of translating general facilitation techniques into facilitative training capability. Course methodology includes:
- Surfacing and incorporating participants' personal objectives for the course
- A high ratio of practice time to lecture time
- Peer feedback and coaching
- A "building block" approach to teaching related facilitation skills (model and teach a skill, practice it. Teach another skill, practice both...)
- Opportunities for self-discovery of approaches to collaborative learning
- Opportunities for isolating and practicing specific skills
- Facilitating participant feedback
- Identifying "aha's" and personal development strategies
- Providing samples, templates, and facilitation guides for take-aways
Offered as a Two-day, Private, In-house Course $7000/16 participants
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