The Facilitation Tutor Core Skills Program has been designed to teach the essential skills you need to become an effective group facilitator.
- This program is an ideal introduction for those who are unfamiliar with facilitation. It is also an excellent refresher of technique for those who have been facilitating for some time.
- The program is organized into ten lessons.
- Each lesson isolates a single, important technique.
- Each core skill is demonstrated using videos.
- Theoretical models are clearly and simply explained.
- Interactive exercises and structured practice activities make the lesson engaging.
- Each lesson is supported by downloadable workbook pages.
- Each participant has unlimited access for six months.
- A final test allows learners to receive a Certificate of Completion.
- Managers and team leaders need facilitation skills to plan and run the many meetings that they attend both in person and online.
- Project managers need facilitation skills to help build their teams and maintain meaningful communication.
- Process improvement specialists need facilitation to structure the many important conversations that they need to conduct with their clients, customers and team members.
- Counselors need core facilitation practices in sensitive interviews with staff. Facilitation also provides valuable management tools for goal setting and conflict resolution.
- Consultants and HR specialists need facilitation skills to explore client needs, set joint goals and build collaboration with key stakeholders.
- The concept of facilitation: it’s purpose and underlying beliefs.
- An overview of the foundational content/process model.
- The five core practices of facilitation.
- The boundaries of neutrality.
- A clear structure for beginning any facilitated session.
- How norming can create and maintain a positive meeting climate.
- The purpose and importance of flipchart note taking.
- Techniques for intervening to redirect member behaviors.
- The hidden reasons that meetings falter.
- Specific set of steps for taking the pulse and restoring group order.
- Various ways that groups can make decisions and clarifies whether they unite or divide group members.
- Situations in which each approach is applicable.
- What facilitators do to effectively end facilitated discussions.
- A variety of ways to bring closure.
- Strategies to avoid poor follow-through.
