Facilitation Skills

Course details

Overall aims of Facilitation Skills

The primary objective of this programme is to enable you to understand group work, theory and practice. This is done in two main ways:

• practical skills – how to facilitate groups
• based on a bedrock of theory and proven best practice

What exactly are Facilitation Skills?

Facilitation is about learning “… the facilitator’s role is much more about opening things up for discussion in a stimulating way, getting ideas into the open and helping the group to listen to each other, further its knowledge and thus make informed decisions …”

Who should attend?

Team leaders, managers, facilitators of groups either in house or external, facilitators/ chairpersons of meetings and all those wishing to enhance their skills in these areas and to perform effectively in these roles

What will I learn?

Tools & Techniques of facilitation to include...

• What is facilitation?
• The principles, concepts and practical skills of group work
• Selecting the appropriate facilitation methods
• To evaluate, recognise and put in to practice the theory of group work
• To organise, plan, execute and lead group sessions. Then inform members of the outcomes of the group session
• To facilitate and co-facilitate a group
• To understand the life cycle of groups, group dynamics, the role people play in groups,
• To analyse the role that power, conflict and lack of participation has on a group
• Group facilitation & problem solving
• Learn the key processes in managing a group decision making process to get the best possible outcomes
• Recognise and manage individual / group conflict in a pro active manner
• To define the group parameters including your own boundaries & parameters