The Effective Facilitator: Our Flagship Course
1st Course Accredited for Covering the 30 Certified Master Facilitator™ (CMF) Competencies
Learn the techniques our facilitators use to achieve amazing results through groups!
How do you get groups to develop workable, realistic solutions? Our flagship course delivers the tools and techniques you can use immediately! We show you how to motivate a group, build consensus, manage dysfunction, maintain focus, generate ownership and inspire to action.
Public Class Opportunities for this Course
No Facilitation Class Offers You More!
- 300-page workbook
- 10 principles, over 100 techniques
- 10 detailed agendas
- 6 practice sessions
- Videotaping*
- Spring Forward - We encourage you to implement your learning by providing a 60-day check-in to confirm your progress.
- We reinforce your learning by sending you The Maximizer, a monthly refresher on one of the course techniques
- You also receive 2 copies of The Secrets to Masterful Meetings, written by our CEO, Michael Wilkinson.
*A 3-day streamlined version of this course is also available. The powerful, videotaped exercise is excluded.
Why it Works
Unlike other facilitation courses, The Effective Facilitator devotes 80% of its curriculum to learning and practicing the group techniques that separate great facilitators from good ones. We focus on critical skills such as consensus building, keeping the group focused, generating energy, managing dysfunction and gaining agreement. Our branded approach to training, The PDI Difference, ensures results through: Practical techniques, Dynamic, high energy instructors, and Interactive exercises and practice sessions. To date, over 95% of attendees have rated this course as THE BEST or ONE OF THE BEST courses they've ever taken!
Learn How To
Get groups to develop and agree upon workable, realistic plans or solutions to issues. Gain the tools and techniques to: create a vision that motivates people to action, engage groups in developing solutions and generate ownership that leads to results. Learn a comprehensive approach top facilitators use to prepare for success, get a session started, focus the group, use (not abuse) the power of the pen, gather information, manage dysfunction, build consensus, maintain high energy, close the session, and construct customized agendas.
Objectives
- Define the role of a facilitator
- Identify the key facilitation principles
- Describe the best practices related to each principle
- Provide students with facilitation practice and performance feedback
Ideal For
- Managers
- Executives
- Facilitators
- Trainers
- Consultants
- Sales Professionals
- Analysts
Needing To
- Lead a task force
- Establish a strategic direction
- Run better meetings
- Get a business process operating efficiently
- Establish performance objectives
- Work through conflict/internal strife
- Define the specific needs of a user community
Duration
4 Days (A 3-day streamlined version of this course is also available.)
Next Actions
Attend a FREE webinar - Introduction to Facilitating Groups
Download a pdf with details for this course.
Public class opportunities for this course.
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