Learn more about facilitation through our selection of training courses. Choose a topic, search a convenient location and date, or allow Leadership Strategies to bring training to your site through our onsite classes. Our training offerings allow you to also customize our courses with case studies and content to meet your specific needs. Our business development managers have years of experience customizing our training programs to meet an organization’s specific needs.
We teach you the 10 fundamental principles of facilitation, back them up with over 100 specific techniques, and then provide advanced training, virtual facilitation training, and certification training that prepare you to become a Certified Master Facilitator.
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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.)
This course is specifically designed for individuals who have completed training in The Effective Facilitator and want the full advantage of learning how to master the skills remotely. Virtual Link course unveils the engagement tools and techniques you need to make your virtual meetings more productive – even from behind a screen or speaker. In just one day of training, you will be taken through each of the 10 principles you learned in The Effective Facilitator with instruction on how to apply the skills virtually and with hands-on engagement.
Prerequisite: The Effective Facilitator
Facilitating Masterful Meetings is a convenient two-day course designed to help you amplify your daily meetings with a simple meetings framework and practical group facilitation techniques. You will leave fully armed with stronger collaboration tactics plus the tools to stop the common problems perpetuated in most meetings – late starts, discussions without purpose, and group dysfunction – all culprits of wasted resources and money.
For alumni of The Effective Facilitator or Accelerated Workshop. In this exciting 3-day follow-on, learn new facilitating techniques, receive detailed, quality feedback, and practice, practice, practice!
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.
Don’t just take your skills to the next level; take it to the very top with Facilitation Mastery. This new, fast-track program will empower you to manifest real engagement and drive ever greater results from your group sessions—optimizing your capabilities and maximizing your value to groups and organizations.
This course provides leaders with the tools and strategies to move their management skills to the next level. Leaders learn how to employ the eight key principles for “Taking a Facilitative Approach (TAFA)” to leadership, including: “Connect first, correct second’; “Ask and empower, don’t command and control”; “Set the vision, not the solution”; and “Seek participation, not just input.” During this workshop, participants will learn how to use the TAFA principles to become a facilitative leader.
This course will equip you with a full toolbox of strategies for engaging participants in dynamic and interactive training segments. Bring a module of your own class to get feedback and recommendations for transforming it using The Engaging Trainer techniques!
Learn to manage client relationships effectively and achieve results for clients. Build critical skills to increase credibility, improve communication and manage expectations.
This course provides a detailed understanding of each of the building blocks that make up a strategic plan and strategies for facilitating teams through the strategic planning process. You’ll learn the Drivers Model, a road map for constructing a strategic plan for your organization and tips for judging the quality of each component of your plan, and more.
What is it that separates great facilitators from good ones? What is it that great facilitators do that keeps training sessions and meetings focused, energetic, engaging and results-oriented? Through training over 23,000 people in facilitation skills, we have identified what we believe are the seven key skills – the seven separators – that distinguish the best facilitators from the rest of the pack
The Effective Facilitator Monthly Touch is a 12-month program designed for professionals who want a refresher on the over 101 techniques taught in the Effective Facilitator Course.
Whether you are a beginner or a veteran facilitator, you have several, unique options to take your skills to new levels.
Not sure where to start? Download our Path to Facilitation Mastery to help guide you.
Leadership Strategies understands that circumstances may arise requiring a participant to cancel and/or reschedule their registration for a public class.
Cancellation requests must be received in writing by email or fax prior to the start of the class. If a cancellation request is made prior to 30 days before the start of the class, the participant is entitled to a full refund. Participants who wish to cancel less than 30 days prior to the class will be responsible for the entire course fee. Such fee shall be applied to any future class within six months of the original course. Rescheduling is allowed on a one time basis only, with no further rescheduling permitted. After six months, the participant forfeits the class fee.
If a participant fails to appear for the class without email or fax notification, the class fee is forfeited. Participant substitutions are acceptable.
Leadership Strategies will make every attempt not to cancel any scheduled class. If a class cancellation is required for any reason, participants will be notified 10 calendar days prior to the class via phone and/or e-mail. Participants may apply the registration fee to a future class, or request a full refund. Please note, when a class is cancelled, Leadership Strategies will reimburse any airfare cancellation/transfer fees up to $100 after receiving flight cancellation/transfer receipt.
Class locations are subject to change. While we make every attempt to prevent changing locations, please confirm with Leadership Strategies prior to booking non-refundable hotels.
Thoroughly revised and updated, Michael Wilkinson’s 2nd edition of The Secrets of Facilitation delivers a clear vision of facilitation excellence and reveals the specific techniques effective facilitators use to produce consistent, repeatable results with groups.
