“Facilitate using the Foundational Principles of Group Facilitation”
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Learn how to facilitate, develop and customise group processes to help your team achieve their outcomes, build and reach consensus on decisions and have more constructive meetings or workshops! The Skilful Facilitator series will equip you to facilitate a range of processes such as strategic planning, project scoping and planning, process improvement, conflict resolution and requirements gathering and many more. Learn the foundational principles of facilitation as outlined in the IAF Certified™ Professional Facilitator accreditation programme. Apply many facilitation techniques immediately, utilising "memory aiding" technqiues and interactive sessions to enhance course retention and concentration. Electronic detailed facilitator agenda models which can be customised, are provided to the skilful facilitator as a workable methods guide for ongoing reference and use.
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Anyone who part of their day to day job requires them to lead a group of people through a process to arrive at a solution acceptable to all stakeholders. Whether leading a project team, managing a task force, establishing performance objectives for process improvement team, or working with executives in developing a strategic planning. This course is aimed at the project management practitioner, IT professional, manager, group facilitator, team leader or trainer.
Length
Three days
(08h00 – 17h00).
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Class size
Maximum 12 participants |
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Our trainer, Jerome Passmore, the Managing Director and Lead Facilitator of MasterPLAN™, has over 12 year’s experience in group process facilitation and is a Certified Professional Facilitator™ (CPF) with the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) (www.iaf-world.org). Jerome Passmore is the founder and Managing Director of SAFNET (Southern Africa Facilitator’s Network a Section 21 Company) (www.safnet.org.za) as well as the IAF Regional Representative for Africa.
Jerome has designed and facilitated over 750 workshops, he believes that what makes great facilitators effective is their ability to apply the fundamental principles of facilitation. Jerome feels that expertise in, group techniques coupled with a thorough understanding of the foundational principles of facilitation, is what separates great facilitators from average ones. In this course participants will have considerable hands-on practice sessions, to build their confidence as facilitators.
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Skillfully apply the foundational principles of facilitation using a highly structured framework, from preparing for a successful session, through to achieving buy-in and commitment to the workshop outcome, to session wrap-up and closure.
Upon successful completion of the course, participants will be able to…
- Prepare, Set-up and Design Workshop Processes
- Prepare a workshop for success by addressing all critical aspects and ingredients of workshop set-up and design an agenda that diagnoses and addresses a specific client need and outcome.
- Deliver Powerful Workshop Introductions
- Get a workshop started "right" from the start by creating an environment that educates attendees about the workshop purpose and objectvies, stimulates their interest in the workshop subject, empowers the participant's role and need for full participation, and involves them early in the workshop right from the start of a session.
- Guide the Workshop Processes ("Staying on Track")
- Keep the group on track by establishing and focusing on a clear workshop objective and course of activities that will assist in preventing unnecessary deviations from the agenda, which only serve to disrupt the workshop process and eat away at precious time. Maintain a high level of interaction and pariticipation in the group which responds to the "tired" periods during the workshop day.
- Use General Facilitation Tools
Whilst Creating a Participatory Environment
- Demonstrate appropriate use (how and when) of a range of general facilitation tools such as flipcharting, brainstorming, grouping, prioritisation, nominal group and affinity analysis, whilst making the tool the participants voice.
- Facilitate Dialogue and Discussions
- Through the use of a range of questioning techniques and facilitated disucssion processes, to glean the correct level of workshop information that meets the objective.
- Manage Group Dynamics and Conflict
- Manage group dysfunction and conflict by using technqiues that both reaches group ownership of resolution, build consensus in decision-making throughout the workshop process, and arm the facilitator with the confidence to manage challenging situations.
- Closeout Workshops
- Close a workshop which reviews the success of outcomes attained as well as ensures clear action and ownership of outstanding issues, decisions to be addressed as well as leaves the group with an understanding of the next steps required to lead the group forward in their workings.
These principles are based upon the foundational competencies required to become an IAF Certified™ Professional Facilitator (CPF) with the IAF.
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- R8 500.00 (excl.VAT) per person including comprehensive course documentation and a FacilitateIT!™ Graphic Cards and Group Interaction Starter Toolkit and Travel Bag.
- R7 650.00 (excl. VAT) without the starter kit and bag.
- Corporate rates available upon request.
For more info email caroline@masterplan.co.za.
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