Facilitation Training

MasterPLAN has become South Africa's leaders in professional group facilitation training, coaching and development, from beginners to advanced veteran facilitators. Along with our public enrollment workshops, we also teach a variety of our classes on your site or develop in-house facilitation programmes.

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COURSE DATES 2009:

3 Day Masterful Facilitator 2 Day Extreme Facilitation (Advanced)
2 - 4 June (Jhb)
28 - 30 July (Jhb)
1 - 3 September (Jhb)
27 - 29 October (Jhb)
24 - 26 November (Jhb)
6 - 7 October (Jhb)
1 Day FastPLAN Accelerated Project Planning 1 Day Facilitating IT Work Sessions
4 August (Jhb)
10 November (Jhb)
25 August (Jhb)
16 November (Jhb)
3 Day Masterful Consultant
7 - 9 September (Jhb)

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We offer the following courses:

COURSE OUTLINES:

3 Day The Masterful Facilitator

Learn how to lead a group of people through a process to arrive at a solution that is acceptable to all participants. Whether you are leading a project team, defining user requirements for a system development project, or working with executives in developing a strategic plan for their organisation. Attain essential and powerful facilitation skills and techniques. The Masterful Facilitator is our leading programme, which is based upon foundational principles of facilitation and includes a detailed step by step methodology, with a wealth of practical facilitation and group management techniques. Practice sessions around the facilitation principles provide delegates with an opportunity to refine and hone their skills. The programme is structured to allow candidate facilitators the opportunity to build their confidence in the practice sessions. Each practice session progressively broadens their experience, culminating in facilitating larger groups. Documented individual feedback from an IAF Certified™ Professional Facilitator and a video-taped session on DVD makes this course invaluable to any practicing facilitator.
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Please see the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) website for more information about their IAF Certified™ Professional Facilitator accreditation.


2 Day The Extreme Facilitator Course (Advanced)

Facilitators seeking to raise their level of facilitation skill would benefit from this programme. In this exciting series, learn enhanced facilitation techniques and methods like appreciative inquiry, world cafe, and many other frameworks, as well as specialised techniques for focused questioning skills, managing challenging and large team environments. Each candidate facilitator receives detailed and constructive feedback, with areas for improvement and opportunities to practice within a safe environment. Learn the art of making your questions work, and benefit your facilitation sessions and the outcomes.

A key feature of this course is learning how to apply John Geier's DISC styles from a communication point of view, and adapting your style in order to emulate the styles of your participants.

Note: Completion of our 3 Day Masterful Facilitator course is a prerequisite.

Facilitation Coaching

Do you need to get advice from an IAF Certified™ Professional Facilitator for an upcoming workshop, or help in developing a detailed agenda and structured facilitation model for an important workshop? Would you like to obtain practical observations and learnings on how to address the dysfunction and lack of collaboration occurring in your organisation? Alternatively would you like an IAF Certified™ Professional Facilitator sit in your workshop and provide you with structured feedback or even co-facilitate certain agenda items with you? Throughout our structured coaching process, we offer insightful and detailed feedback (with specific areas and strategies for improvement) to help you refine your skills and raise your level confidence as a facilitator.

FacilitateIT!™ Group Interaction Toolkit Training Series

Get hands-on experience facilitating specific workshop processes using accelerated tools and techniques based upon our range of FacilitateIT!™ Graphic Cards and Group Interaction Toolkits.

 

  • Facilitating Process Design and Analysis Work Sessions.

    This interactive workshop focuses on teaching you facilitation techniques that will accelerate the progress of your process improvement effort while building ownership of the results. These techniques are set within the context of a repeatable, collaborative improvement approach so you'll know when best to use them.  You will also be given a proven approach to facilitating process design with a team, complete with supporting templates. A FacilitateIT!™ Starter Kit is included in this course.

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  • Facilitating IT Work Sessions.

    Most failures found in systems development lifecycle projects stem from shortcomings made during the requirements definition phase. Challenges like these begin when systems are designed with limited input and poor collboration from all the key stakeholders. Building on the foundational principles introduced in our Skilful Facilitator Series, the Facilitating IT Sessions course offers the IT professional tailored techniques and practice sessions as well as detailed guides which are geared specifically for facilitating business information and systems needs analysis, process improvement, and requirements definition and gathering. A FacilitateIT!™ Starter Kit is included in this course.
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FacilitateIT!™ Graphic Cards more >
Group Interaction Toolkits more >
FastPLAN™ Project Planning Facilitation Toolkit more >
The IT Sessions Toolkit more >
The ProcessMAP™ Toolkit more >
The MindStorming Toolkit more >
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Latest News


Graphic Facilitation!

Visual Maps

GRAPHICS give you a HUGE advantage as a consulting, facilitation, or training professional...

Did you know 87% of the general population are visual learners? Most group processes totally neglect and even work against participants natural learning styles

Capitalise on this with our new graphic facilitation product...

VisualiseIT!™

"Harnessing the Power of Visuals"

Finally here, a new graphic facilitation tool called VisualiseIT!™, an exciting product that will significantly enhance your participant's experience of your workshops, without needing to be the artist!

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Congratulations!

Lize Wordsworth received her IAF Certified™ Professional Facilitator accredition. Lize attended the Masterful Facilitator training programme in 2007.... more>


DEC '08 issue of thefacilitator is now out... more >


BENCHMARK STUDIES have shown that collaborative work sessions...

  • Reduce the risk of scope creep from 80% to 10%.....

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Attend IAF Global Facilitator Conferences to broaden your knowledge and skills in group facilitation... more >

Participate in the Africa 4th Facilitator's Conference 2010, so far plans are under way for another spectacular conference to be held in Cape Town. Watch this space for upcoming details soon... more >

Upcoming IAF Professional Facilitator Certification Event to be held in Cape Town 2010 more >


Client Comments


Investec Asset Management

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Nedbank Capital - "MasterPLAN facilitates successful strategy planning and programme development"

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Anglo Medical Scheme - "I would like to thank you sincerely for facilitating a difficult (in my opinion) strategy session"

Onderstepoort Biological Products - "Once again thank you very much for your very comprehensive and high standard facilitation of our EXCO strategy session"

Samancor Chrome - "I want to congratulate MasterPLAN on the excellent facilitation skills course that you present as well as your highly skilled and knowledgeable trainer and facilitator"

National Nuclear Regulator - "Finally we have done proper planning and the facilitation was excellent. Well structured, process was clear, well organised, clear charts, well done!"

UNISA - "The team's strategy came to the forefront"

RMB Private Bank - "Thanks very much for your work on our project charter and the facilitation of the sign-off session. We were very happy with the work done and will certainly be using you again for our next project"

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Metropolitan Health - "Great strategy session! It was extremely intensive and highly participative"

Profmed - "Mr Passmore has facilitated our strategy planned annually for the past three years. His facilitation has resulted in effective strategy planning, enabling Profmed to clearly understand and achieve its goals"


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