The Authentic Facilitator
If you are interested in building your meeting facilitation skills, then take a look at our Authentic Facilitator Program. This unique 3 day program targets the building of skills critical to the successful facilitation of meetings.
In fact, we believe these important skills to be a vital component of the leadership competencies required by managers today.
It is widely known that many meetings today do not deliver. They often fail to provide a useful forum for employee interaction and frequently do not result in the making of decisions. Rather, because of stilted superficial conversations that happen in the context of loose or non-existent meeting structure, decisions often get made by only one or two people after (or before) the meeting. This has two main side effects.
First, power gets concentrated in the hands of only one or two and their decisions will often lack the required commitment of others for implementation. Second, the meetings themselves become a tedious activity that absorbs employee time and energy and creates frustration in your organisation.
The Authentic Facilitator Program will teach you how to facilitate meetings that deliver collective decisions that enjoy strong buy in and support the necessary personal change required to execute your actions.
When you apply the skills you will learn from the Authentic Facilitator Program you will create the kind of meeting that delivers a genuine impulse for action in your organisation. They can be a time when team members get energized, focused and aligned. Not only that, they can provide an ideal opportunity for team members to share their assumptions and create a deeper, stronger shared understanding that fuels higher organisational performance. Ultimately, your meetings will fulfill the role in your organisation for which they were intended.
Participants will learn how to:
- Prepare for meetings by creating dialogue before the meeting has even begun
- Ask questions that generate a wealth of data upon which decisions can be made
- Open meetings in a way that facilitates energy, momentum and ensures participants start on the same page
- Close meetings in a way ensures no loose ends or uncertainty about next steps
- Intervene to inject more rigor and robustness into the meeting conversation
- Handle distracting or disturbing participant behaviour so your meetings are not sabotaged
- Design a meeting agenda that guide the group to collective decisions
- Raise the energy and the sense of connectedness between participants within your meetings
- Identify the characteristics of an effective meeting so you know what you’re aiming for
- Understand your personal reactive tendencies as facilitator so that you can effectively bypass them
Benefits:
- You will be able to facilitate meetings that deliver decisions that enjoy strong buy-in and that will genuinely get acted upon!
- Offer strong meeting leadership that inspires the followership of others
- Have a ready compliment of techniques to apply to any meeting which will improve the meeting quality
- Achieve better meetings in your company!
Delivery:
All skills will be modeled by the trained facilitator and will be presented using a mixture of:
- whole group presentations
- discussion sessions
- small group skill building practice sessions
- individual reflection sessions
⊕ Find out about our "seven step process" to ensure the highest quality engagement with our clients.
Contact us today!
For further details or to arrange a confidential interview
to discuss how we can help you, please email info@pdconsult.com.au or
call 02 4784 3183.
