Experienced facilitators who have taken formal facilitator training (preferably our professional-level course) and have facilitated six or more workshops. Our next class is scheduled for February 28 to March 1, 2012 in Houston TX.

The three-day training session will 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 and practice sessions. The 2011 classes will be taught by Terrence Metz.

OBJECTIVES

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

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

TOPICS

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

COURSE OUTLINE

• Advanced material on virtual meetings including video meetings
• Advanced practice sessions and personalized evaluation/ feedback
• Building approaches—starting with the "end" in mind and holarchy review
• Getting groups to decide (ie, finessing extreme personality problems)
• Graphic display of information
• Personalized review
• Preparation—deciding on prioritization approach
• Risk-reward of approach options (ie, comparison and application of decision making and innovation tools)
• Student exchange of facilitation struggles and advanced class expectations

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