PDAF: Advanced Facilitation Skills

Having advanced facilitation skills is essential for you to be able to create positive and effective interactions combined with accurate and timely decision-making. This in-depth, 2-day course will prepare you to handle most facilitation tasks and includes specific techniques and tools that allows managers to become excellent facilitators in both training and non-training environments.The Advanced Facilitation Skills Training course is designed to develop a deeper understanding of facilitation such as group preparation, managing perspectives, building agreements, defining roles and other skills which allow professional facilitators to interact as required in any situation.This course is delivered in partnership with PD Training.

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

Facilitators wishing to increase their skill.

Lesson 1 -   The Trusted Conductor  A framework for facilitating with complexity Group Capacities LDP Review Assessing and Convening Reflection	Lesson 2 - Divergent Thinking  Listing Ideas - Brainstorming Small Group Work Individual Writing Gap Analysis Reflection
Lesson 3 - Convergent Thinking  Affinity Diagram Pre-Defined Criteria Straw Votes Gap Analysis Paradigm Shifting Paradigm Shifting Techniques Critical Reasoning Reflection	Lesson 4 - Arriving at a Decision  Decision Rules Decision Rules and High Stakes Decisions Scales of Agreement Reflection
Lesson 5 - People Management Strategies  When and how to intervene Groupthink Reflection	Lesson 6 - Facilitating Specific Processes  Strategic Planning Process Improvement Force Field Analysis Reflection
Lesson 7 - Reflections  Create an Action Plan References