team facilitation skills

If your organization assigns teams to work on quality improvement or project assignments, then training a group of internal facilitators will significantly improve the productivity of these teams.

We offer a four-day interactive process that provides the basic knowledge, skills, and tools for effective group facilitation.

Purpose: To increase the knowledge, skills, and experiences of both new and existing facilitators in a way that significantly increases group/team task effectiveness so that they and their organizations are more successful in meeting their personal, teams’, and organizational goals and objectives.

Because organizations change constantly, the need for facilitative skills to support change is always increasing.

Results: Increased understanding of the central importance of relationships in group process:

    • Learning how to deepen group/team member relationships to further a task
    • Understanding and using a group/team effectiveness model in enabling team effectiveness
    • Enabling teams to define clear doable task/problem statements
    • Understanding of and ability to teach teams the effective use of the four key roles of a successful task team–Leader, Facilitator, Scribe, and active participant
    • Ability to use the Planning Cycle to plan and facilitate an effective meeting
    • Ability to apply basic group/team intervention skills
    • To take the learnings from this class and understand the where and how to apply the knowledge, skills, and experiences in the student’s community and workplace
    • To have fun

Methods: Lecture, discussion, demonstration/modeling, and interactive exercises

Work Session Meeting Dates: Should be delivered in one-day work sessions with at least one week between the four sessions for practice and completing the work assignments.

Texts:

    • The Skilled Facilitator New & Revised Second Edition - A Comprehensive Resource for Consultants, Facilitators, Managers, Trainers and Coaches, New & Revised by Roger M. Schwarz, Jossey-Bass Publisher, 2002
    • Innovate with C.A.R.E. Profile-Understanding and valuing your contribution to successful innovation teams  Allen Fahden and Srinivasan Namakkal, Carlson Learning Company, 1995 (15-page profile)
    • Selected readings and handouts to be given in work sessions

Required Capabilities:  

  • A well designed curriculum that matches the experience level of participants and effectively balances new knowledge, skills, and experiences
  • Trained Facilitator to teach/facilitate the curriculum
  • A roomy comfortable workspace with the proper tools (easels, paper, pens, etc.) to work our four-day agenda
  • An enthusiastic group of participants committed to getting the most from the material and our facilitator
  • A strong desire to have fun, enjoy the experience, and challenge the material where necessary
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Enable your managers to be more successful. Let us provide them with the necessary capability to support work teams in accomplishing results, on time, collaboratively, and to specification.