96280 - Facilitating with Finesse

Course Overview

In today’s world, group conversation and collaboration are more important than ever before, and the demands on our time mandate that meetings be as efficient and productive as possible. This requires highly-skilled meeting design and facilitation to maximize the potential of the work that we do together.

Skilled meeting facilitation requires adeptness in three major areas:

• Managing the Process
• Managing the People
• Managing the Information

To facilitate with finesse in today’s world, meeting facilitators must be proficient in designing and facilitating meetings regardless of whether those meetings are in-person, online or hybrid. This nine week, 36-hour live online training will include vital tools, techniques, and understandings for designing meetings and facilitating groups (large & small) in-person, online and in a hybrid format. There will be demonstrations and coached practice sessions interspersed throughout the training.

What You'll Learn

• Design meetings that efficiently accomplish the meeting objectives
• Engage meeting participants with a wide variety of techniques
• Create an arena of productive collaboration
• Skillfully manage groups of three to 300
• Harvest the meeting work product into highly usable content to perpetuate productivity after the meeting

Who Should Attend

• Leaders in organizations
• Board Chairs
• Educators
• Mediators
• Volunteer Coordinators
• Current or aspiring professional facilitators
• Anyone who works with groups of people

Graduates of this training will be entitled to 3 hours of coaching by Kathleen Oweegon on meeting design and participant management at no additional charge.

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