Facilitation: Skills for Successful Meeting Management

August 26, 2015

What do effective, productive, and engaging organizational meetings have in common? Good facilitation. Skilled facilitation creates the framework and provides the processes that ensure group success.  When meetings are facilitated well, participant input is drawn out and processed in a way to that moves the discussion forward. Participants are given equal opportunity to contribute and communication is open and effective.  By thoughtfully designing the meeting as well as managing the way the group works together, a facilitator helps the group accomplish their purpose. Facilitation and meeting management skills are not just for facilitators, however. Even in meetings where there is no formal facilitator, participants can forward the work by engaging as “facilitative” group members.

This training will teach the basic tenets of skillful facilitation and meeting management strategies.

Through this training participants will learn, understand, and explore:

·         Role and purpose of a facilitator

·         Qualities and characteristics of a successful facilitator

·         Key facilitator tools and techniques

·         Group dynamics and group process intervention strategies

·         Commonly utilized facilitation processes

·         How to be a facilitative group member

For more information, visit the workshop website here.