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Group Facilitation Methods

Powerful methods to facilitate and build consensus

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Pre-Requisite: None *

 

* This course is a prerequisite for most other ICA courses and all Programs.

 

Move beyond “seat-of-the-pants” facilitation and reliance on instinct, to use the most powerful facilitation methods and processes available. Learn step-by-step approaches to clear thinking, sound decisions, solid consensus and open dialogue.

Group Facilitation is a foundational course for professional facilitators and will give you a thorough grounding in facilitation practice.

This course has been endorsed by the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) as part of the Professional Facilitator Program to lead you to become a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF). GFM alone covers many of the competencies required by the IAF.

Who is it For?

  • Experienced facilitators, it will help reinforce what you are already doing well and point out the areas that need work.
  • New facilitators by starting you out on a solid foundation with best practices used by professional facilitators around the world.
  • Executives, managers and other leaders by acquainting you with key facilitation skills that will immediately enhance your leadership capacity.
  • Consultants by showing how to engage your clients more effectively in discussions and solutions.
  • Presenters and trainers who will get new practical tools that will enhance the adult learning principles they know are important.
  • Anyone who wants to be assessed by the International Association of Facilitators as a Certifies Professional Facilitator (CPF)

Benefits

Focus group energy on common goals

  • Enable groups to form consensus
  • Facilitate solid commitment to results
  • Encourage group creativity
  • Build motivation and improve morale

Help groups resolve conflict

  • Build respect and trust in groups
  • Create lively effective teamwork
  • Generate positive interaction
  • Make groups more productive and effective 

Conduct easier, faster meetings

  • Save time and money on meetings
  • Involve participants in discussions
  • Get more ideas into the mix

Key Methods Taught

 The Focused Conversation Method provides a structure for clear dialogue and reflection, probes beneath the surface to the depth of a topic, encourages a diversity of perspectives and leads to decisions.

  • Gets everyone participating
  • Encourages a diversity of perspectives
  • Provides a structure for positive dialogue
  • Gets beneath the surface of a topic
  • Builds common understanding

The Consensus Workshop Method provides a participation and respectful way to move a group toward consensus on those important topics that everyone wants a breakthrough.

  • Involves each group member
  • Gets all the ideas into the mix
  • Focuses the group consensus
  • Builds an effective team partnership
  • Enables you to facilitate large groups

Learn two powerful methods to enhance your facilitation skills

"ICA Associates Inc. provides the best training I have come across. Their decades of learning and development have resulted in methods unsurpassed by anyone else in the field."   - David Kraft, Director of Research, Strategic Communications

Agenda

Day One

The Focused Conversation Method

  • Demonstration of FCM
  • Theory and levels of thinking
  • Applications of FCM

Practice

  • Designing focused conversations
  • Practice leading conversations

Feedback

Day Two

Consensus Workshop Method

  • Demonstration of Consensus Workshop
  • Theory and group dynamics
  • Applications of Consensus Workshop

Practice

  • Designing Focus Questions
  • Practice Consensus Workshops

Feedback


When is this course given

To know when the next Group Facilitation Methods course will be given, please refer to our courses schedule. 


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Telephone 03-3484-5092

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