The Art of Facilitation

Methodology: Instructor Led

Course Length: 2 Days

Target Audience: All employees, sworn and non-sworn

Course Summary:

The Art of Facilitation is a highly interactive course designed to develop the participants ability to facilitate engaging training and meetings.

If you facilitate groups trainings, meetings or other group settings and you desire to promote higher levels of engagement and active learning, this course will be of value to you. Simply stated, this workshop is intended to change the way training sessions, debriefings and meeting occur, by building the facilitation skills of those who lead them.

Course Objectives:

• Promote learner-centric training
• Establish clear objectives within meetings, roll calls, debriefings and training sessions
• Demonstrate how to promote participant engagement and involvement
• Review and practice methods to effectively “manage” group interactions
• Use learned techniques to enhance overall communication and facilitation skills
• Develop techniques to inspire and engage participants in active learning
• Demonstrate excitement and energy during mock facilitations
• Develop a plan for facilitating difficult discussions and collaborating with challenging audiences
• Create question and answer periods that promote involvement
• Practice techniques for capturing and holding audience attention