The Agile Facilitator

Advanced Group Process Facilitation Skills

 

 

 

Able to facilitate short, straightforward meetings?

            Ready to tackle more complex issues?

Looking to build consensus and shift conflict?

 

 

Description

The Agile Facilitator is designed to enhance facilitation methods and skills so you can facilitate effective group and business meetings of 3+ hours for problem-solving, issue resolution, and action planning.  Building on existing facilitation knowledge and skills such as those of The Confident Facilitator (or equivalent course), The Agile Facilitator helps you take the next step in your facilitation confidence and skill so you can tackle bigger issues, in lengthier meetings, with more complex and potentially conflicted situations. (Note: This courses is not suitable for beginning facilitators.)

 

Learning Objectives

You will:  

  • Discover a systematic workshop and meeting framework to design a variety of meeting purposes, from solving problems to improving processes
  • Acquire and practice facilitation tools, techniques, methods to add to your expanded facilitator toolkit
  • Know the right facilitation methods to adopt for mutual understanding, consensus and alignment
  • Be able to build consensus around a desired future state and solutions
  • Understand when a group needs to stay in discussion, when it needs to decide, and how to facilitate both
  • Know how to prevent dysfunction and dynamics before the meeting and gain proven intervention techniques during the meeting

 

Ideal for:

  • Facilitators and meeting leaders who are seeking to improve the quality and output of their meetings, including managers, supervisors, department and team leaders, project managers, internal consultants, business analysts, various professional and technical experts, change and quality improvement agents. This course is for individuals who already have experience facilitating groups.

 

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