Facilitation Skills Training Course

Course Aims

This workshop is designed for you to explore the communication skills and techniques required to successfully facilitate events, workshops and meetings in a business context.

Interactive theory and practical session will engage you in a variety of realistic scenarios where you will receive feedback on your approach. From ice breakers and energisers to handling difficult people and situations, this workshop will help you to discover and develop new facilitation skills.

Course Objectives

By attend this Facilitation Skills Training Course you will know how to:

• Develop the skills and confidence to help groups take ownership for generating ideas, solve problems and agree direction and plan actions
• Contract productive, purposeful relationships with groups
• Deal with challenges and difficult group behaviours
• Ensure high levels of participation and creativity in groups
• Identify and improve your strengths as a facilitator.

Course Content

Here's what we cover in our Facilitation Skills Training Course:

What is Facilitation?

• Defining what the process of Facilitation is and when’s it used?

The Facilitator

• What is the role of the Facilitator?
• What are the necessary skills and behaviours of an effective Facilitator?

The Skills

• Effective questioning and a Facilitator
• Structuring a facilitated meeting
• Probing to explore new possibilities
• Listening effectively

The Role

• Keeping the group motivated and maintaining momentum
• Clearing blockages
• Dealing with conflicting members and views

Capturing Ideas

• Creative ways to capture actions
• Closing out the meeting

Skills Practice

• An opportunity to practice the skills.

When you have this course delivered in-house, the content above can be tweaked and changed to ensure the course meets your specific needs.

Who Should Attend our Facilitation Skills Training Course?

This facilitation skills training course is for anyone who is looking for ways to get more out the meetings that they run.

If you want to:

• Know how to drive more actions from meetings
• Increase responsibility and ownership for actions
• Motivate meeting attendees to get involved
• Be able to deal with a range of different behaviours in meetings
• Know how to manage disagreements and 'blockages' in meetings
• Have a better approach to running meetings

Then this facilitation skills course is for you.

The course is suitable for people of all levels and in all roles and industries.

A 1 day online live virtual training course with one of our highly experienced sales trainers. You also get:

• A highly interactive experience
• Access to MyRevolution Learning to retain access to your materials and stay in touch with your trainer
• A digital copy of the course materials from the course
• A digital course certificate

Facilitation is a method whereby one person is allocated the role of facilitator in a meeting. It's that persons job to use a mixture of guiding and directing techniques to drive actions from the meeting. Their job is to ask questions, manage delegates, push for agreement and action and bring the meeting to a successful conclusion.

Yes. The course will provide you with lots of tools to apply in situations where meetings become difficult.

yes. It will help you to drive more actions. You may also want to take a look at our Running Successful Meetings Training Course too.

Yes. We have lots of articles about running meetings in the meetings section of our blog.