Facilitation Skills Training
At Collective Insight, our Facilitation Skills Training programs are designed to empower Leaders with the knowledge and skills needed to facilitate meetings, design high-performing teams, and effectively facilitate collaborative processes. This comprehensive training equips participants with the tools and techniques to become authentic, whole-person facilitators and create engaging meetings that draw out the group’s collective intelligence for greater buy-in and more effective outcomes.
The training is delivered in person, online, or as blended facilitation training and coaching services tailored to the individual and collective needs of those we work with.
Who is our Facilitation Skills training for?
- Team Leaders and Managers: Seeking to improve their facilitation capabilities.
- Community and Stakeholder Engagement Professionals: Seeking to enhance their engagement skills to build safety and trust amongst stakeholders to deliver time-efficient outcomes.
- HR Professionals and Trainers: Looking to enhance their training delivery and meeting management skills.
- Project Leaders: Needing to lead collaborative project meetings and teams.
- Anyone involved in organising and leading meetings and events who wants to make them more effective and engaging.
Our Facilitation Skills training address several key challenges:
Low Engagement
Overcoming difficulties in keeping participants engaged.
Lack of Effective Communication
Enhancing the ability to communicate effectively, facilitate discussions, ensure everybody’s voice is heard, and drive productive outcomes.
Project Delays
Poor facilitation can lead to poor collaboration, high staff turnover, lack of communication, misunderstandings, conflicts, and community objections that delay projects and break trust and damage reputation.
Technical Proficiency
Building confidence in managing the technical aspects of hybrid and online meetings.
The training creates significant opportunities
High Engagement
Proficient facilitation skills enable high engagement of all relevant stakeholders, which leads to effective collaboration, strong buy-ins and collectively intelligent decision-making.
Improved Meeting Outcomes
By enhancing the facilitation skills of your people, meetings become more productive and goal-oriented.
Increased Confidence
Participants gain confidence in leading and facilitating meetings.
Stronger Team Collaboration
Better facilitation leads to improved team communication and collaboration.
By the end of the training, participants will be able to:
Confidently facilitate meetings & collaborative processes
Engage participants effectively
Manage technical aspects
Drive productive outcomes
Understand the role of a facilitator
Learn to clarify and create a group purpose
Create a safe and empowering group culture
Become a more authentic facilitator
Practice a range of interventions,
Be comfortable with a wide range of behaviours
Recognise and work with different energy levels
The Facilitation Skills Training covers a comprehensive range of topics, including
- Introduction to Facilitation: Understanding the role and importance of a facilitator.
- Facilitation Techniques: Practical tools and methods for effective facilitation.
- Engagement Strategies: Techniques for keeping participants engaged and active.
- Intervention Skills: Learn how, when, and why to intervene to move a group toward the desired outcome.
- Communication Skills: Enhancing verbal and non-verbal communication for effective facilitation.
- Conflict Resolution: Handling conflicts and ensuring productive outcomes.
- Self-Facilitation: Become aware of your patterns and learn to facilitate yourself in the moment to achieve the group’s outcomes.
- Virtual and Hybrid Meetings: Best practices for facilitating online and hybrid meetings.
- Technical Proficiency: Managing virtual platforms and troubleshooting common issues.
- Post-Meeting Follow-Up: Ensuring that meeting outcomes are implemented and followed up on effectively.
At Collective Insight, our Facilitation Skills Training program is designed to transform how your leaders conduct meetings, stakeholder engagement and collaborative group processes. By empowering your team members with these essential skills, you can create a culture of effective collaboration and continuous improvement within your organisation.
Your leaders move from Task leaders to People Leaders to Performance Leaders.
Facilitation Mastery Program
We offer a range of public courses and in-house training customised to meet your specific needs.
This program is based on the philosophies and teachings of Zenergy facilitators, coaches, and researchers who have developed facilitation literature and programs founded in authentic, whole-person facilitation and cooperative principles.
Our programs offer a certificate of completion. You achieve Mastery by attending each of the following programs in sequence. However, depending on your facilitation experience, you can attend either program without being enrolled in the full Facilitation Mastery Program.
Introduction into Facilitation
A 40-hour program based on the book “The Art of Facilitation” by Dr Dale Hunter and colleagues. It will give you the foundations of what facilitation is and how to help a group to achieve its purpose. You will learn about the distinction of being a process expert and content-neutral. This is an experiential training program with in-the-moment coaching, peer feedback, and practice based on improvisation training practices. This will enable you to learn by doing and feel energised and confident about your facilitation capabilities.
Advanced Facilitation
Knowing about facilitation techniques and frameworks is one thing, but knowing when to apply them is another. This advanced training program is a 40-hour experiential program based on the book “The Essence of Facilitation” by Dr Dale Hunter and colleagues. It focuses on the skill of distinguishing what is missing in a group to help any group that is stuck to move forward. We call it the invisible magical skills that skilled facilitators use to help groups achieve their desired outcomes. This program will deepen your skills from the introduction program and prepare you for further mastery.
Facilitation Mastery
This Program is built around the leading edges of its participants. Leading edges are the growth areas towards Mastery in Facilitation. Some examples of these areas would be Theory U, Appreciative Inquiry, working with conflict, Working with power dynamics, facilitating storytelling, designing organisational interventions, leading project teams, and many more.
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