Facilitative Leadership Techniques: Activating Productive Group Participation in Trainings and Meetings
Ever attended a meeting (or 10) that could've been an email? Have you ever facilitated a dicussion and wish you had done something different after?
This training will provide attendees with tips and techniques for designing effective trainings and meeting agendas using proven facilitation methods for fostering productive group participation. Participants will learn vital skills for becoming an effective facilitative leader, a style that promotes inclusive decision-making and group ownership. This training provides hands-on techniques and an opportunity to practice skills that are applicable in any setting and designed to improve group dynamics and strengthen any team.
Learn to plan and facilitate productive meetings/trainings:
Promote participation and minimize the impact of participants who are exhibiting “challenging” behaviors
Motivate commitment and collaboration
Improve organizational and group dynamics
Integrate diverse ideas and foster inclusiveness
Minimize conflict and guide difficult conversations effectively toward resolution
Learn techniques for:
Designing training presentations
Effective facilitation
Creating group consensus
Creating practical plans
Facilitating change and solving on-going problems
Empowering and moving groups forward
Promoting leadership
Who Should Attend:
People involved in giving presentations and trainings, facilitating and leading organizational and community meetings, focus groups, and/or committees. People interested in making their organizational and community based group processes more focused, productive, and effective.
