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

The 2-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.

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 process tools 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

TOPICS

• Hip-pocket tool deployment
• Decision-making tools
• Graphics and visual display – expanding their use
• Interactive feedback from student challenges

COURSE OUTLINE

• Introduction
• Building Approaches - Starting with the "end" in mind
• Risk-reward of Approach Options
• Getting Groups to Decide
• Preparation - Deciding on Prioritization Approach
• Graphic Display of Information
• Advanced Practice Sessions
• Review

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