Facilitation: A Skill to Run A Meeting or the Platform for Leadership

Discover how to foster effective decision making in work groups and teams.

This workshop features multiple opportunities for each participant to practice new tools and receive feedback.  Participants leave with invaluable core facilitation skills. The definition of facilitate is "to make easy" or "ease a process". What a facilitator does is plan, guide and manage a group event to ensure that the group's objectives are met effectively, with clear thinking, good participation and full buy-in from everyone who is involved. If your organization is challenged by meetings with fuzzy outcomes and frustration then it’s time to give your meetings, clarity of purpose and accountability that includes identifying who will do what by when that results from skillful facilitation.

Learn the steps necessary to facilitate and to determine role and outcome including specific steps to create shared civility

• How do you ensure that everyone is engaged in the process?
• Is your main role simply to stand by the flip chart and note down all the ideas?
• What preparation do you need to do?
• How do you manage the event, and how exactly do you pull the whole thing together?

Individuals who want to facilitate effective meetings and teams especially staff teams, leadership team, citizen standing committees and citizen groups. This is not a workshop for use with public council or board meetings of elected officials.