Facilitation Fundamentals: Making Your Meetings Work

Two 2-hour sessions

COURSE OVERVIEW

Unfortunately, simply getting everyone into a conference room or on Zoom doesn’t move a team closer to getting work done. Instead, leaders and facilitators need to design and facilitate a meeting experience that brings a group closer to shared understanding. Then, after arriving at a shared understanding, a group can make a decision and plan for action.

This workshop provides you with guided practice designing a future meeting experience to help you foster results-oriented meeting experiences Also, we introduce facilitation techniques that you’ll have the opportunity to practice in small groups. This practical focus ensures that you’re able to walk away with new knowledge and skills that you’re ready to use.

This course is ideal for leaders, facilitators, or others who are:

  • Convening meetings of all types,
  • Dealing with uninterested participants,
  • Struggling with an indecisive group,
  • Grappling with moving a group toward action (as opposed to repeatedly discussing the same issue), or
  • Want to improve and refine the meeting experience.
Participant Testimonials

The class clips along at a great pace with helpful information, tools, resources and teach backs; it was well presented with attainable results. I appreciate some of our existing facilitation methods were reinforced and new ideas and approaches were gained by attending this session. An overall great opportunity for fresh facilitation approaches!

– Verna Mikkelson, Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center

This training was a great opportunity to learn actionable skills and new tools that I can use to improve my meeting facilitation techniques. I think lots of organizations could benefit from this training.

GOALS
In this hands-on training, you’ll gain experience designing and facilitating outcome-oriented meetings. By the conclusion of the session, you should:
  • Develop confidence in designing for various types of agenda outcomes
  • Experience and facilitate a variety of facilitation techniques
  • Design an action-oriented agenda for a future meeting
AGENDA
Offered in a 4-hour format or two 2-hour sessions. During this fast-paced training, you’ll design and practice proven methods for helping a group do its best work and move toward action through:
  • Informing
  • Seeking Feedback
  • Brainstorming
  • Collaborating
  • Making a Decision
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Do you have a small group of people you’d like to send to a course but not enough participants to offer an in-house course? If you can commit to purchasing 7 or more registrations, please contact us. We can work with you in scheduling a future public course.

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