Advanced Facilitation Skills

Service Description

Duration: 2.0 days - Schedule each day: 9:00am - 4:30pm NZT (lunch and two tea breaks). The course runs two consecutive days. The first day is the only one that shows under 'Upcoming Sessions' and on the calendar order form. Classes with one participant will be conducted. However, due to the efficiency of a one-on-one training, the course will begin at 9am and be completed within 3-4 hours for each day's session. This class is limited to a maximum of 4 participants. Description: Having advanced facilitation skills is essential for you to be able to create positive and effective interactions combined with accurate and timely decision-making. This in-depth, 2-day course will prepare you to handle complex facilitation tasks and includes specific techniques and tools that allows managers to become excellent facilitators in both training and non-training environments. The Mindshift Learning Company Advanced Facilitation Skills training course is designed to develop a deeper understanding of facilitation such as group preparation, managing perspectives, building agreements, defining roles and other skills which allow professional facilitators to interact effectively in any situation. After completing this course participants will be able to: • Distinguish facilitation from instruction and training • Identify the competencies linked to effective small group facilitation • Understand the difference between content and process • Understand the stages of team development and ways to help teams through each stage • Establish ground rules • Develop content and process • Deal with controversial issues and divergent perspectives • Develop communication skills • Find for common ground • Use common facilitation techniques • Give effective feedback • Understand facilitation vocabulary • Deal with difficult people and situations • Build sustainable agreements • Use analysis tools As a way to make our training courses more impactful, we include a personal style report for each participant called a REACH Profile, a $249 value, free as part of the course (see the REACH Profile section of our website for a description). CLASS DATES: this course runs every 5-6 weeks, scheduled in advance for the next 6 months. The ‘Upcoming Sessions’ section of this page will only show the classes running in the next 31 days. For the other available class dates, please press the ‘Book Now’ button and scroll through the calendar (or contact us).

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations that occur seven (7) days (or more) prior to the training will receive a 100% refund or a rescheduling. Inside of seven days, 50% of the enrolment fee will be refunded or the enrolment can be rescheduled with no penalty. 'No shows' (no communication and did not log in for the session) will not be refunded, but can rescheduled once with no penalty. Training classes are fully transferable to a friend or a colleague.

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