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Facilitation Training With over 15,000,000 meetings each day in the United States, facilitation skills are becoming an increasingly valuable commodity within any organization. Facilitation provides a constructive, information-rich environment for achieving business goals by involving meeting participants in a structured process to build consensus and promote quick results. Successful workshops and meetings require far more than just an agenda and brainstorming. To accomplish business objectives, they require a facilitator with effective skills in planning, problem solving and group dynamics as well as experience in proven information gathering and analysis techniques. With training and practice, you’ll find these facilitation skills are easily transferable to other areas of your business -- from team meetings to boardroom presentations to employee evaluations to community involvement. The International Association of Facilitators (IAF) has identified critical core competencies that provide the facilitator with those skills and experience. These competencies focus on the importance of understanding client needs and customizing a workshop agenda to meet those needs, using the appropriate processes and techniques to guide the group toward its desired outcome in a safe environment while maintaining a professional attitude. The Consciously Competent Facilitator is built around these competencies. Using a participative approach, this three-day session is designed to introduce you to the critical preparation activities required in planning your meeting, as well as group management and content management techniques you will use throughout the meeting. Through the use of lectures, instructor demonstrations, and practice sessions, you’ll learn how to successfully conduct facilitated sessions. The Consciously Competent Facilitator & Project Manager. The current perception of project management is that it’s mainly operational, and project managers should be primarily focused on "getting the job done." While achieving business results is important, the role of a project manager must also involve achieving the maximum benefits of teamwork by fully utilizing the dynamics of a diverse team and understanding and resolving team issues, while interacting effectively with clients and management in individual and group settings. In this one-day course, project managers will focus on techniques required for successful facilitation of project manager-led meetings such as team chartering, status, issue resolution, facilitated reviews, and lessons learned. Prerequisite: The Consciously Competent Facilitator. The Consciously Competent & IT Professional. The traditional approach of serial interviews to accomplish Information Technology (IT) goals such as requirements gathering, process improvement, or technical reviews can be costly and time-consuming and often results in incomplete information. Using a highly-structured process within an interactive facilitated workshop can result in better-defined and more-complete deliverables as well as higher user commitment and ownership. Applying facilitation skills to a variety of IT-related sessions is the focus of this one-day course, which highlights the purpose and deliverables of several types of sessions including Project Planning and Kickoff workshops, Process Modeling and Improvement workshops, Data Modeling, Facilitated Reviews, and Lessons Learned. Group discussion and interactive exercises center around suggested facilitation techniques to use in maximizing participation and results. Prerequisite: The Consciously Competent Facilitator.
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