This seminar is customized to best suit your organization’s goals and culture. We can focus on a specific area if preferred: strategic planning, scenario planning, problem solving, or creative thinking skills.

The results of this training are not canned, they will be your own. The approach is strategic: if people support what they create, your organization’s employees must do the hard work to build this capability. It cannot be imposed or authored by others. We will work together to build a capability which can meet and exceed your goals.

Who Should Attend: 

Meeting Facilitators, Quality Improvement Team Facilitators, Quality Leaders responsible for identifying and training Meeting Facilitators

  Facilitation Skills 

• What is Facilitation                                              

• Facilitation Stages

• Knowing Your participants

• Creating Participation

• Facilitating Conflict

• Effective Decision Making

• Meeting Management                 

• Process Tools For Facilitators

Team Issues and Response Strategies 

• form, storm, norm, perform                                 

• team leader partnerships

• identify, diagnose, intervene, analyze             

• overbearing participants

• floundering                                                           

• dominating participants

• reluctant participants                                           

• attribution

• acceptance of opinions as facts                       

• discounts

• rush to accomplishment                                     

• feuding members

• digression and tangents                                     

• team assessments

Practice and Role Play 

            We will prepare for and facilitate a wide range of meetings based on your companies needs and preferences. Most often we focus on one skill set. Examples: strategic planning, scenario planning, problem solving, or creative thinking skills. 

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