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Facilitating Meetings

Master Facilitation Skills

 

Keep everything moving and under control

Gain the skills and techniques required to create real value as a facilitator. Learn how to frame questions, manage audience members, stimulate discussion, and keep participants engaged and focused on outcomes.

What:

This is a one or two-day workshop. It is designed to help people acquire the knowledge and skill they need for facilitating meetings. They’ll learn and practice how to lead a lively discussion in a professional business setting.

“Facilitation means, literally, to ‘make easy.’ But being a great facilitator is not easy. Facilitating meetings requires special knowledge and skills.”

Who:

This workshop is helpful for consultants, trainers, researchers, and product managers. Anyone whose job requires them to lead formal and informal discussions.

Why:

If you can facilitate meetings effectively, you can get good ideas out of smart people.  Using these skills will make meetings and presentations more interactive and more enjoyable. A skilled facilitator will also ensure that employees engage with the content. This is important because it boosts understanding and retention.

How:

The workshop combines theory with practice.  It includes exercises, discussions, and debates. It is designed to create facilitators who can think on their feet, listen well, and capture good ideas. The workshop also covers how to be diplomatic, observe and manage participant behavior, and earn the respect of the group.

Some areas covered include:

  • preparation and staging
  • mapping the inquiry
  • keeping it fun
  • managing personalities
  • listening
  • capturing ideas
  • problem solving
  • diplomacy
  • timing
  • how to end

 

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