ToP Facilitation Methods

 
San Antonio
Date: October 13-14, 2010

Price: $645.00

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"Rather than trying to explain or teach what is needed, the facilitator attends to the process of change. To facilitate is to elicit, sustain and enhance change. To facilitate a meeting is to let go of controlling others toward predefined results and help them accomplish what they want." Jim Rough "Dynamic of Facilitation"

Even those who have facilitated for many years find that they facilitate by instinct and when something goes wrong they have nothing to fall back on. This course provides the foundation and safety net to get you through difficult times.

This course will help you to:
-Facilitate groups more effectively.
-Make meetings more productive and efficient.
-Focus a diverse group's energy on a common goal.
-Create a sense of teamwork.
-Improve staff morale.
-Use a group's creativity to maximize productivity.
-Design many different types of meetings effectively and efficiently.

ToP Facilitation Methods is the cornerstone for all of our facilitation skills courses. This course provides you with an effective step-by-step process to help clarify discussions and achieve consensus within your group. Learn how to organize ideas and keep discussions moving in any group. Learn the:

1. The Focused Conversation

* Learn a structured process that helps you plan and facilitate a meaningful exchange of ideas. Discover ways to involve every member in thinking through difficult issues. This process heightens your effectiveness in facilitating virtually every form of group communication.

* Conduct purposeful, productive meetings and discussions

* Quickly capture a group's best thinking

* Surface new ideas and solutions
Ask questions that stimulate candid feedback and discussion

2. The Consensus Workshop

* Energize problem solving with a process that builds active participation and teamwork. Productively channel diverse ideas into consensus decisions everyone can own and support. Learn tools to facilitate groups to new levels of creativity and cooperation.

* Tap rational and intuitive thought processes

* Integrate diverse ideas
Generate practical and creative solutions

* Develop group consensus

3. Action Planning

* Master this powerful implementation planning process which enables you to help a group rapidly pull together an effective plan, organize needed resources and mobilize individuals' energy into action.

* Visualize a successful result

* Analyze the current reality

* Create a practical plan

* Maximize group commitment and involvement

Who Should Take This Course?
People who are actively involved in the leadership and facilitation of groups and teams including: Supervisors, executive directors, managers, professional facilitators, private consultants, training managers, educators, health practitioners, community specialists, concerned citizens and team members in high participation environments who need increased exposure to group participation methods to be effective.

Benefits:
-Saves time and money through increased productivity
-Points to visible results
-Gets a deepened personal commitment
-Reduces time spent on conflict resolution and prevents conflicts
-Allows groups to discover their own motivation