The Effective Facilitator

For experienced facilitators and beginners.

Our flagship course! This 4-day workshop covers 10 principles, over 90 techniques, 6 exercises and video-taping. Over 95% rate this course the "best" or "one of the best" courses they have ever taken. (Also available in a 3-day Streamlined version with no video-taping and 1 less exercise.)

The Secrets to Facilitating Strategy for Governments and Non-Profits

A unique web training and classroom learning experience! Part I allows you to learn Strategic Planning at your own pace with Springboard Online!, the latest in online learning from Leadership Strategies. Then in Part II, you'll join the other participants for a two-day session focused on strategies for facilitating teams through strategic planning. Techniques from The Effective Facilitator serve as the building blocks for the day. Using a detailed facilitator's guide, you and your classmates will facilitate a ficticious company through the development of a three-year strategic plan.

The Accelerated Workshop

For highly experienced facilitators only.

Want to expand your toolbox of techniques but can't take 4 days for training? This course covers the instructional material from The Effective Facilitator in 2 days. Since the practice time and videotaping have been removed, this course is not recommended for beginners.

The Seven Separators

For highly experienced facilitators only.

If your team of veteran facilitators has only a day, this workshop focuses on the 7 key skills that we find separate great facilitators from good ones. During the workshop your team will gain keen insights into facilitation excellence and have opportunities to put the separators into practice.

Facilitating IT Sessions

For alumni of The Effective Facilitator or Accelerated Workshop.

This 1-day follow-on to The Effective Facilitator offers practice sessions and detailed guides for facilitating IT-related sessions such as requirements gathering, project planning and JAD.

Facilitation for Trainers

Ask participants what they want in a training class and you will likely hear words like “practical, dynamic, interactive.” This course will equip you with a full toolbox of strategies for engaging participants in dynamic and interactive training segments. Special Feature: Bring a module of your own class to get feedback and recommendations for transforming it using the Facilitation for Trainers techniques!

Advanced Facilitation Skills

For alumni of The Effective Facilitator or Accelerated Workshop.

Have you already learned the 10 Principles? Are you ready to move to the next level? In this exciting 2-day follow-on, learn new facilitating techniques, receive detailed, quality feedback, and practice, practice, practice!

Facilitator Certification Class

For experienced facilitators seeking certification.

Give us 5 days and we will prepare you for certification by the International Institute for Facilitation (INIFAC) as a Certified Master Facilitator. We have integrated the principles from The Effective Facilitator with the 30 CMF sub-competencies, to create a dynamic, power-packed week-long session that gets you ready for the certification process!

Masterful Meetings

Bad meetings often waste time, consume resources, de-motivate people, and result in less than optimal decisions. Don’t sit through another bad meeting! Masterful Meetings delivers a vision of what a great meeting should be. The course provides specific strategies for getting meetings started on time, keeping the discussion focused, eliminating dysfunctions, empowering people through Meeting Rights, and guiding the meeting when you are not the meeting leader. As an added bonus, you will receive the Meeting Master Plan: a ten-step blueprint for transforming meetings throughout your organization.

Making Meetings Work

For people who lead meetings.

The 1-day course focuses on the jewels from The Effective Facilitator and provides a complete framework for highly effective meetings.

Making Technical Meetings Work

For people who lead technical meetings.

This 1-day course applies the tools from Making Meetings Work to the tougher environment of technical meetings.

• 5 Ps of Preparation
• Building Detailed Agendas
• Starting with Impact
• Keeping the Group Focused
• Recording Techniques

• Asking Great Questions
• Managing Dysfunction
• Building Consensus
• Energizing the Group
• Closing