Advanced Facilitation Skills Training

Great facilitators are always searching for ways to be more effective at presenting to others. This Advanced Facilitation Skills training course can help those who have already mastered the basics of facilitation and are looking for more skills to enhance their presentations.

This course is intended for experienced facilitators who want to enhance their facilitation skills in working with teams. It helps participants hone their fundamental facilitation skills – whether it is managing more complicated group situations, building agreements, understanding the stages of team development and how to use common process tools to make presentations easier and more productive.

This training course is now available in Hong Kong.

This Advanced Facilitation Skills training course can be delivered at your premises by one of our expert local or international trainers or live online using our HIVE technology.

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Your Learning Outcomes

This short and dynamic training course is the fastest way to develop skills in effective facilitation so that goals can be reached on time, every time.

After completing this course, participants will have learned to:

  • Distinguish facilitation from instruction and training
  • Identify the competencies linked to effective small group facilitation
  • Understand the difference between content and process
  • Understand the stages of team development and ways to help teams through each stage
  • Use common process tools to make meetings easier and more productive
  • Define your role in facilitating
  • Establish ground rules
  • Develop content and process
  • Deal with controversial issues and divergent perspectives
  • Develop communication skills
  • Find for common ground
  • Use common facilitation techniques
  • Give effective feedback
  • Understand facilitation vocabulary
  • Deal with difficult people and situations
  • Build sustainable agreements
  • Understand the stages of team development
  • Use analysis tools

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Plus the workshops are always tailored to your current context

"I know I put a lot of 10's for the trainer. Shane really was remarkable."

Envista Pty Ltd

 

"Would like to commend Jo for his professionalism and for the quality of his teaching and experience, I felt there were one or two more opportunities for him to use a facilitation approach over a teaching approach but overall a good mixture of the two styles with lots of real life tangible examples and demonstrations. Would have been great for me to have one more go at practicing facilitation myself so that I could have a chance to immediately put in place the corrective feedback I was given, because learning by doing is my preferred style. Overall loved the balance of theory and relevance to my own work. I can already see how I will put in place what I have learnt and feel equipped with a huge toolkit of advanced techniques. Would and will certainly recommend this to colleagues and peers. Please feel free to use any of my comments as testimonials."

- Course Participant


 

"A very enjoyable course, Eric (Trainer) was knowledgeable, engaging and clearly had a passion for the subject material. Would recommend to others."

- Infrastructure Finance and Advisory, ACT Government

 

"It was a very personalised training and I very much appreciated James' experiences in his previous work life which gave real life examples to the training. The training expanded on my previous facilitation experiences but also gave me new skills and insights into reading people which is what I really wanted. I will recommend PDTraining to my colleagues when others are seeking similar training especially if James is facilitating!"

- Department of State Development

 

"I thought Josh was excellent at demonstrating engaging and dynamic facilitation...overall, it was very engaging and the Inspire-Educate-Experience-Debrief model was great."

- The National Disability Insurance Agency

 

"The training was fantastic - Karen was inspiring. She was patient and took the time to ensure everyone understood the concepts explained. thank you."

- RDNS

 

"Loved the course, would definitely recommend it."

- PEPSICO

 

"Joseph was a brilliant trainer and made a big effort to structure the training around our requirements. First time that I've experienced true tailoring of a program to my needs."

- Individual Course Participant

 

The training was well facilitated. The trainer was successful in gaining a lot of responses from the participants to create the relevant information. A lot of pair, group work and interaction was there.

- Department of Education



"Highly targeted (and therefore valuable) training given that there were only two delegates - Josh managed superbly to balance our individual requirements."

- Parks Victoria

 

"It was an absolute pleasure meeting and being inspired by Josh. I have already recommended this course to other staff and told them to request Josh as the trainer. Thanks."

- Parliament of Victoria - Information Technology Unit

 

"Overall, the course was fantastic. Derick was a fantastic facilitator/trainer and the small class size (4 including the trainer) allowed for much in-depth discussion of issues and sharing of experiences. A couple more opportunities to practice what we had learnt would have been good, but the opportunity to have the in-depth discussions was so very valuable. Derick was great at getting us to reflect on our own practices in teaching the course components and to prompt us to discuss our reflections. Thanks!"

- Individual Course Participant

 

"Louise had a very warm and welcoming style that connected us all and created an open and engaging learning environment. The course was very enjoyable and provided opportunities to learn from other participants in addition to Louise.

- City of Melville


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12-months access to the unique REACH Future Proofing Personal Development Dashboard with personally curated learning to develop agility to adapt to different people tasks and situations.

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Skill development in facilitation is essential for performing expertly. During this deep dive training course in facilitation skills, participants learn to distinguish facilitation from instruction and training, establish ground rules, develop facilitation techniques, give effective feedback, understand the stages of team development, and more.

Facilitation Skills Training Course

Course Outline for Advanced Facilitation Skills Training

After completing this course, participants will have learned to:

Topic 1

The Trusted Conductor

  • A Framework for Facilitating with Complexity
  • Group Capacities
  • REACH Review, understand your strengths, recognise other people's styles and needs.
  • Assessing and Convening
  • Reflection

Topic 2

Divergent Thinking

  • Listing Ideas - Brainstorming
  • Small Group Work
  • Individual Writing
  • Gap Analysis
  • Reflection

Topic 3

Convergent Thinking

  • Affinity Diagram
  • Pre-Defined Criteria
  • Straw Votes
  • Gap Analysis
  • Paradigm Shifting
  • Paradigm Shifting Techniques
  • Critical Reasoning
  • Reflection

Topic 4

Arriving at a Decision

  • Decision Rules
  • Decision Rules and High Stakes Decisions
  • Scales of Agreement
  • Reflection

Topic 5

People Management Strategies

  • When and How to Intervene
  • Groupthink
  • Reflection

Topic 6

Facilitating Specific Processes

  • Strategic Planning
  • Process Improvement
  • Force Field Analysis
  • Reflection

Topic 7

Reflections

  • Create an Action Plan
  • References

Plus you’ll also receive:

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Money Back
Guarantee

If you’re not happy with the outcomes from
the course we offer a money back guarantee

profiles

REACH
Profiles

For every participant
valued at $199 each

sick

Sick Day
Safety Net

No one left behind
with our 1/2 price re-run promise

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Development
Dashboard

12-months access to the unique REACH Future Proofing Personal Development Dashboard with personally curated learning to develop agility to adapt to different people tasks and situations.

Learn Advanced Facilitation Skills Training Now

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At the completion of training participants are encouraged to create an action plan, and invite an accountability buddy via their Orgmenta App.

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