FACILITATION TRAINING
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Designing and Leading Effective Meetings:  A Training in Basic Group Facilitation Methods




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Come learn a structured method for designing meetings that always works, how to gather the best thinking from groups, how to help a diverse group of people reach consensus, and how to create action plans that actually get implemented. We promise it will be a good investment of your time.  We will give you a money back guarantee!

TWO DAY Training
8:15 am – 5:00 pm both days

TARGET AUDIENCE
Staff responsible for leading, facilitating or managing a team or group or who are responsible for designing meetings and events that require or could benefit from more active participation.

OVERVIEW OF COURSE
The training will provide three methods that can be used in working with groups. Participants will see a demonstration of each of the methods, be taken through the process step-by-step, and have actual hands-on experience practicing the methods.  Exploration of specific applications and additional practice will occur in follow up session. 

Participants will learn three proven processes developed by the Institute of Cultural Affairs: focused conversation, consensus building, and action planning.

All methods are designed to achieve the following with virtually any group:
Engage active participation
Increase team investment
Build group consensus
Move from discussion to decision
Produce practical action plans 

SPACE IS LIMITED TO 20 PARTICIPANTS

COMMENTS FROM RECENT PARTICIPANTS

This course gave me the practical tools to facilitate a small conversation or a high stakes group planning process.

Very good experience. Fantastic facilitators. Engaging work and very clearly useful information as opposed to other only somewhat helpful workshops I’ve attended in the past.

Very positive…the tools given are very specific.

It gave me a useful way to approach problems, to get the most out of meetings and to efficiently plan work and projects. And, it was a lot of fun…more fun than expected.