If you have ever wondered how to keep the attention and interest of employees, whether it is problem solving or planning, then you should attend this facilitation skills workshop. Whenever you find yourself as a manager unwilling to push your own solutions on every body, or whenever you are not sure you have good answers, facilitate a meeting and find out how much your employees already know.

Learn facilitation skills from a master facilitator. Understand the mental preparation you need before facilitating in order to do it effectively. Experience how to keep everyone engaged, sift through a large inventory of ideas, and gain consensus with enthusiasm.

After This Session Students will:

• Understand the seventeen contributions facilitators make
• Grasp the basic beliefs that make facilitating effective
• Know how to give instructions for exercises
• Uncover the secrets to creating your own exercises
• Be detached and objective when facilitating
• Use facilitation as an additional tool for effective leadership

Program Length — 3 hours  or half-day

Intended audience — Anyone in a leadership position; leaders with direct reports;
           managers who will be called upon to facilitate sessions in the planning process.