Experienced Facilitators who have taken formal facilitator training (preferably our professional-level course) and have facilitated 6 or more workshops.

The 3-day workshop is designed to review, refine, and enhance the facilitation and workshop-structuring skills of the experienced session leader. The students will spend approximately one-third of their time with new content and tools, one-third in participatory demonstration and discussion, and one-third in exercises. The 2009 class will be taught by Terrence.

OBJECTIVES

The workshop is designed so that the students will be able to:

• Practice "how to" tools for managing conflict and confronting issues
• Learn and apply new methods for meetings and workshops
• Improve ability to help groups agree and prioritize
• Adapt real-life learnings from gathering requirements
• Improve agenda-building skills for part-day meetings and workshops
• Lead groups to make higher-quality and measurable decisions
• Improve their virtual and tele-video/presence leadership skills

TOPICS

• Hip-pocket tool deployment
• Decision-making tools
• Breakthrough and innovation tools
• Graphics and visual display – expanding their use
• Interactive feedback from student challenges
• Scenario planning and temporal shift through multiple SWOT analysis
• Executing your strategy --- facilitative strategy mapping
• Change management framework and suggestions

COURSE OUTLINE

• Introduction
• Student exchange of facilitation struggles and advanced class expectations
• Building Approaches - Starting with the "end" in mind and Holarchy Review
• Risk-reward of Approach Options (ie, comparison and application of decision making and innovation tools)
• Getting Groups to Decide (ie, finessing extreme personality problems)
• Preparation - Deciding on Prioritization Approach
• Graphic Display of Information
• Advanced material on virtual meetings including video meetings
• Advanced Practice Sessions and personalized evaluation / feedback
• Review

The course fee is $2,000 per student. Fee includes training, materials, audio-video recording, lunch, and refreshments.