Facilitation Skills Training

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What is Facilitation Skills Training?

Facilitation is fast becoming a key skill for anyone who is in a team, leading a project team, heading up a working group or managing a department.

Facilitation is the skill, and art of guiding others to solve their own problems and achieve their objectives without simply giving advice or offering solutions. A facilitator provides the structure and process – enabling groups to function effectively and make high-quality decisions.

This two day business skills and personal development training course is highly participative and designed to help delegates achieve a practical understanding of the process and skills of facilitation.

Delegates on this facilitation training course will receive a ‘Facilitator’s Toolkit’ containing a range of powerful techniques they can utilise back at work.

We also provide private and in-company Facilitation Skills courses. Call +44 (0)1273 622272to discuss.

Course Objectives

As a result of completing this facilitation training course, delegates will:

Appreciate the benefits and applications of facilitation in the workplace.
Be able to differentiate between process and content facilitation.
Identify the core practices and skills required for effective facilitation.
Understand how to stimulate group participation and positively handle conflict.
Consider the uses of a range of techniques contained within the ‘Toolkit’.
Develop their facilitation skills through ‘live’ practice sessions

Who is this course for?

This facilitation training course will be beneficial for those who attend or lead a variety of meetings, wish to become more effective at guiding people to solve problems and make decisions, need to help teams overcome their blockages whilst achieving ‘buy-in’ and commitment to future actions and want to develop their interpersonal skills when working with others.

What is Facilitation?
Facilitator’s Blueprint – Core Practices & Skills
Creating Group Participation
Facilitating Conflict
Facilitating Problem-solving
The Facilitator’s Toolkit
Skills Practice

Effective tools, useful role play, plenty of interaction with an experienced trainer and above all, an opportunity to spend time thinking out of the box.

Fabrizio Cadamagnani - Bank of England

We all found the Facilitating Focus Groups course very interesting and informative. Helen is an excellent facilitator and she made every effort to tailor and deliver the training in a manner which meets our team’s specific needs. I look forward to working with you again in the future.

Maria Varbeva-Daley – BSI Global

I learnt a great set of tools. The course was taught at a good pace with lots of interaction, it was fun and easy understand.

Gerald Hunt - Southern Railway Ltd

I liked that the course was very practical. I feel much more confident about facilitation thanks to useful practice. The course was well paced and informative, easy to understand. It was fun learning, taking a step back and thinking of solutions to behaviours and the context of training/ facilitation.

Lucinda Hill - 44 London Ltd

Excellent techniques & value for money. Would highly recommend attendance for teams.

Dawn Nicol - Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council

An excellent course offering multiple tools and approaches to enhance facilitation skills.

Carol Lake - Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council