Download Group Facilitation Brochure 2008 (PDF)
May 7, 8 & 9, 2008
9am - 4:30pm
$595/person
$550/person for organizations sending 3 or more people
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Overview
This workshop was developed for mediators and group facilitators who wish to more effectively plan and manage group problem-solving processes. Three major content areas are covered:
- Planning. Strategies for designing agendas which keep group members involved and systematically work toward accomplishing the goals of the process.
- Problem Solving. Participants learn a five-step consensus building process and a variety of group activities for working through each stage of the process.
- Managing Participation. Workshop participants discuss and practice strategies to manage the most common types of “problem” group members.
The workshop is highly interactive and participatory. Through a series of group discussions, role plays and skills exercises, participants learn and practice the component skills of effective facilitation as well as a problem-solving process for structuring group decision making. On the third day, participants integrate the skills from the workshop by helping to plan and facilitate a simulated decision-making process.
Who Should Take This Course?
- Professional facilitators wishing to enhance their skills
- Professional mediators who wish to more effectively handle group conflicts
- Managers needing skills for efficient staff meetings/retreats and effective decision making
- Policy planning professionals looking for more collaborative approaches to policy development
- In-house facilitators or OD specialists assisting with organizational problem solving
- Any professional who needs to resolve conflicts before they escalate to more costly organizational disputes
Training Agenda
Day One
- Overview and Expectations
- Collaborative Decision Making in Groups
- Demonstration: Using the Collaborative Problem-Solving Process
- Planning the Meeting
- Exercise: Planning a Meeting
- Overview of the Roles of Facilitator and Recorder
- Practice: Recorder Skills
- Lunch
- Managing Participation
- Practice: Managing Difficult Meeting Participants
- Step One: Communicate About the Problem
- Communicate About the Problem Exercise
- Step Two: Identify Interests
- Exercise: Listening for Interests
- Discussion/Evaluation
Day Two
- Overview/Evaluation Feedback
- Demonstration: Stages One and Two
- Practice: Stages One and Two
- Stage Three: Generate Options
- Lunch
- Stage Four: Evaluate Options
- Demonstration: Stages Three and Four
- Practice: Stages Three and Four
- Stage Five: Develop a Plan
- Evaluation
Day Three
- Overview/Evaluation Feedback
- Ethics/Organizational Applications
- Agenda Planning
- Exercise: Planning the Agenda
- Planning for the Final Role Play
- Lunch
- Final Role Play
- Discussion
- Summary and Evaluation
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For more information contact Mary Thompson (512) 458-4427.
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