FACILITATION SKILLS

Overview

Facilitation has been a vague practice, mastered usually by human resources practitioners. Facilitation is a core competency for anyone who is part of a team, leading a task force, heading up a committee or managing a department. It is impossible to build teams, achieve consensus or have effective meetings without applying facilitation skills.
Various definitions of facilitation exist. Bens describes Facilitation as “a way of providing leadership without taking the reins” which means to assume responsibility and to take the lead.
Have you been appointed as a leader or manager, but do not know what facilitation involves? Facilitation involves the following:

Active listening
The language of facilitation
Questioning
Giving and receiving feedback
Guiding events to a logical conclusion

Contents
The contents are presented in an easy to learn format for Effective Facilitators to realize that what works for them in one situation, may not work in another and to implement the action plans and hold themselves accountable to achieve results.
Outcomes

After the program participants will be able to:

Gain an understanding of the concept of Facilitation in order to adopt the role of a Facilitator
Apply Facilitation Skills in your own organization in order to become an effective Facilitator
Understand the concept of facilitation in order to clarify the role of a facilitator and broaden your own application of Facilitation
Assess own Facilitation Skills levels in order to develop Facilitation Skills

Apply several tools available to a facilitator in order to become a successful Facilitator.






				FACILITATION SKILLS Overview Facilitation has been a vague practice, mastered usually by human resources practitioners. Facilitation is a core competency for anyone who is part of a team, leading a task force, heading up a committee or managing a department. It is impossible to build teams, achieve consensus or have effective meetings without applying facilitation skills. Various definitions of facilitation exist. Bens describes Facilitation as “a way of providing leadership without taking the reins” which means to assume responsibility and to take the lead. Have you been appointed as a leader or manager, but do not know what facilitation involves? Facilitation involves the following: Active listening The language of facilitation Questioning Giving and receiving feedback Guiding events to a logical conclusion Contents The contents are presented in an easy to learn format for Effective Facilitators to realize that what works for them in one situation, may not work in another and to implement the action plans and hold themselves accountable to achieve results. Outcomes After the program participants will be able to: Gain an understanding of the concept of Facilitation in order to adopt the role of a Facilitator Apply Facilitation Skills in your own organization in order to become an effective Facilitator Understand the concept of facilitation in order to clarify the role of a facilitator and broaden your own application of Facilitation Assess own Facilitation Skills levels in order to develop Facilitation Skills Apply several tools available to a facilitator in order to become a successful Facilitator.