Group Facilitation Methods
Group Facilitation Methods
Enhance Productivity:
Tired of endless meetings that leave people frustrated and exhausted? ToP® training gives you practical tools to help people make rapid decisions and move to action.
Increase Confidence And Skill:
There's nothing worse than a group that is off course, riddled with conflict, and unable to agree. This training provides concrete steps for leading groups out of the morass.
Produce Better Results For Clients and Constituencies:
- Reduce time and energy spent preventing or resolving conflict.
- Allow groups to discover their own motivation.
- Produce visible results.
- Save time and money through increased productivity.
In this two-day, interactive training you will learn three proven processes for activating group participation.
1. The Focused Conversation Method
- Learn a structured process to plan and facilitate meaningful exchange of ideas.
- Discover ways to involve every group member in thinking through difficult issues.
- Conduct purposeful, productive meetings and discussions.
- Quickly capture a group's best thinking.
- Surface new ideas and solutions.
- Ask questions that stimulate candid feedback and discussion.
2. The Consensus Workshop Method
- Energize problem solving while building participation and teamwork.
- Productively channel diverse ideas into consensus decisions everyone can support.
- Help groups reach new levels of creativity and cooperation.
- Tap both rational and intuitive thought processes.
- Integrate diverse ideas.
- Generate practical and creative solutions.
- Develop group consensus.
3. The Action Planning Method help groups rapidly:
- Pull together effective plans;
- Organize needed resources; and,
- Mobilize individuals to action.
Who Should Take this Course?
People who lead or facilitate groups and teams including: Consultants, supervisors, executive directors, managers, professional facilitators, training managers, educators, community specialists and team members in high performance environments.
Hear what past trainees have said about Group Facilitation Methods:
"Great. User-friendly process. Excellent coaches & content. This is the most effective workshop I've attended in 5-7 yrs."
Kimberly Silvers
Silvers Management Consultants
“All Institute of Management Consultant members should have mandatory attendance as part of their CMC process.”
A.J. Fraties
The Raiford Company
"...most of the staff attended the full two day training, and came back feeling there are parts of the training that can be incorporated in every meeting they conduct. Working with Subject Matter Experts can present unique challenges, and this training has given them some tools and techniques to more effectively manage/facilitate these meetings."
Barbara Warner, Chief
Selection Unit
Personnel Management Branch
Department of Health Services