Certificate In Facilitation Skills Online Course
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How to Lead Meetings and Discussions More Effectively Facilitation is often referred to as the new cornerstone of management philosophy with its focus on fairness and creating an easy decision making process.Creating a comfortable environment through better facilitation will help you understand what a good facilitator can do to improve any meeting or gathering and put the theory into practice yourself.
This Facilitation Skills course can help any scale of organization make better decisions, you will gain a strong understanding of what facilitation is all about, as well as learn new tools that you can use to facilitate small meetings. Additionally you will learn to command a room and dictate the pace of a meeting, skills that will set you up to become a great facilitator yourself. By the end of Certificate In Facilitation Skills Online Course, you will be able to: Define facilitation and identify its purpose and benefits Clarify the role and focus of a facilitator Differentiate between process and content in the context of a group discussion Provide tips in choosing and preparing for facilitation Identify a facilitator's role when managing groups in each of Tuckman and Jensen's stages of group development: forming, storming, norming and performing Identify ways a facilitator can help a group reach consensus: from encouraging participation to choosing a solution Provide guidelines in dealing with disruptions, dysfunctions and difficult people in groups Define what interventions are, when they are appropriate and how to implement them
Course Fast Facts: Easy to follow and understand Only 6 to 8 hours of study is required 12 months access to course Delivered 100% on-line and accessible 24/7 from any computer or smartphone You can study from home or at work, at your own pace, in your own time Download printer friendly course content Certificate (IAOTS Accredited) ...
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Entry requirements Students must have basic literacy and numeracy skills. Minimum education Open entry. Previous schooling and academic achievements are not required for entry into this course. Computer requirements Students will need access to a computer and the internet. Minimum specifications for the computer are: Windows: Microsoft Windows XP, or later ...
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Subjects
- Meetings
- Facilitation Skills
- Difficult People
- IT Development
- Skills and Training
Course programme
Module One - Getting Started
Module Two - Understanding Facilitation
- What is facilitation?
- What is a facilitator?
- When is facilitation appropriate?
Module Three - Process vs Content
- About process
- About content
- A facilitator's focus
Module Four - Laying the Groundwork
- Choosing a facilitated approach
- Planning for a facilitated meeting
- Collecting data
Module Five - Tuckman and Jensen's Model of Team Development
- Stage One - Forming
- Stage Two - Storming
- Stage Three - Norming
- Stage Four - Performing
Module Six - Building Consensus
- Encouraging participation
- Gathering information
- Presenting information
- Synthesizing and Summarising
Module Seven - Reaching a Decision Point
- Indentifying the options
- Creating a short list
- Choosing a solution
- Using the multi-option technique
Module Eight - Dealing with Difficult People
- Addressing disruptions
- Common types of difficult people and how to handle them
- Helping the group resolve issues on their own
Module Nine - Addressing Group Dysfunction
- Using ground rules to prevent dysfunction
- Restarting and reframing issues
- Some of the ways of restarting and reframing includes
- Getting people back on track
Module Ten - About Intervention
- Why intervention may be necessary
- When to intervene
- Levels of intervention
Module Eleven - Intervention Techniques
- Using your processes
- Boomerang it back
- ICE it - Identify, Check for agreement, Evaluate how to resolve
Module Twelve - Wrapping Up
Words from the Wise
- YOGI BERRA - In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
- DWIGHT EISENHOWER - Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
- JONAS SALK - The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
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Through well-crafted lessons, expert online instruction, participants in these courses gain valuable knowledge at their convenience. They have the flexibility to study at their own pace combined with enough structure and support to complete the course. And they can access the course 24/7 from anywhere with an Internet connection.
There are 6 units plus resources that include the 60 point wedding plan, contract and invoice templates. The course is entirely Web-based with comprehensive units and a final assessement.
Certificate In Facilitation Skills Online Course