Essential Facilitation Skills

Course Details

How well do your meetings, presentations and workshops go?

This one-day essential facilitation skills course is designed to equip you with the insights, skills, tools and confidence to design and facilitate working groups such as meetings, presentations, brainstorming sessions and project management meetings, more effectively.

If your role involves running meetings, workshops and bringing groups and teams together, to think, solve, create, design, decide, review and plan or learn then this course will help to improve how you facilitate such events.

The essential facilitation course is interactive and provides methods and techniques around the subject of facilitation, with some practical exercises on planning and delivery.

Benefits to you

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand what facilitation is and what it means to facilitate.
  • Identify the role, responsibilities, skills and qualities of an effective facilitator.
  • Select appropriate facilitation methods and tools.
  • Understand the importance of control and command; when to intervene and when not to.
  • Understand the steps required to plan and deliver a facilitation session.
  • Understand the techniques for chairing a meeting.

Course Contents

  • What facilitation is and what it means to facilitate.
  • How to Identify the role, responsibilities, skills and qualities of an effective facilitator.
  • How to select appropriate facilitation methods and tools.
  • About the importance of control and command; when to intervene and when not to.
  • To develop interpersonal skills to maximise effect.
  • How to call upon a range of tools and techniques for facilitation.
  • The steps required to plan and deliver a facilitation session.
  • How to recognise and manage difficulties within a group.
  • The techniques for chairing a meeting.

Who should attend?

Managers, Team Leaders, Supervisors and those that give presentations or chair meetings