Facilitator Skills Training

To ensure a group gathering is productive and purposeful there must be a leader (facilitator) to shape and guide the process of collaboratively working together. The role of the facilitator is to ensure that the group stays on track and is able to achieve the goals and accomplish what it sets out to do. Without effective facilitation, meetings and events can easily lose structure and focus, which results in wasting time and energy and little productivity.

Facilitation is a powerful set of skills that all leaders, managers, and trainers should develop. Facilitation can be applied in meetings, strategic planning sessions, workshops and training, and brainstorming sessions. Good facilitators are skilled at working with different sized groups to provide meaningful and productive discussions, which follow process and direction towards a specific objective or outcome. Good facilitators bring energy, engagement to sessions and ensure that all people within a group are able to share their ideas, suggestions, and opinions in a structured manner.

In this two-day workshop, participants will learn a variety of facilitation techniques that help groups of people move through a process together towards a specific objective. Participants will learn how to draw out ideas and opinions from group members and inspire them to become more creative and productive during interactions with each other. They will be taught facilitation tools to consider, what “group processes” to use, how to handle difficult situations and when to intervene. The course is full of best practice guidelines that if followed make the task of facilitation easier and more efficient.

MindPlus follows a hands-on, experiential approach to training and development. This workshop teaches the fundamentals of facilitation and offers the participants the opportunity to practice the skills of facilitation through a variety of activities and case studies. Participants all receive meaningful feedback from the trainer to ensure speedy development and progress.