Instructors understand and use up-to-date training techniques and a variety of training methods, including lectures, group discussions, case studies, problem solving exercises, and visual aids to give all participants the best opportunities for learning.

Workshop topics:

What You Will Cover:

• Distinguish facilitation from instruction and training
• Provide facilitators with commonly used process tools to make their meetings easier and more productive
• Identify the competencies linked to effective small group facilitation
• Demonstrate through simulations, role-play, critical incidents, and other exercises, each facilitator competency
  

• Introductions, Objectives, Agenda
• Pre-assignment discussion
• The purpose of group facilitation
• Difference between "content" and "process"
• What group dynamics are really like
• What is a facilitator's role?
• Facilitative listening skills
• Facilitating Open Discussion
• Structured Activities
• Difficult Situations & Difficult People
• Preventions and Interventions
• Developing Sustainable Agreements
• Surveying the Territory
• Building a Shared Framework of Understanding
• Developing Sustainable Criteria
• Gradients of Agreement
• Practice: Assignment
  

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