As much as 50% of time spent in meetings is often unproductive, lacking focused outcomes or respectful interactions. Whether you or your staff facilitate meetings at work, in the community, or in multi-stakeholder settings, solid facilitation skills are the antidote to wasted meetings!What are the secrets to facilitating great meetings?
Great Outcomes + Great Process + Great Interactions.
Benefits: The Confident Facilitator is a three-day experiential program that will give you a practical foundation in facilitation theory and practice to achieve enhanced performance and more positive and productive group results from knowing how to facilitate:
- Great Outcomes: Scope the meeting purpose and needs; custom-develop good process agendas for specific group situations; anticipate issues and hiccups; and confidently adopt the right facilitation tools and techniques for different desired outcomes from building common ground, to generating solutions with broad buy-in.
- Great Process: Design and deliver great meeting openings; employ key Techniques to keep groups focused; encourage full participation; ask powerful questions; manage time; maintain energy and set a good pace for the work.
- Great Interactions: Apply the principles of adult learning; work with group diversity; develop pro-active meeting designs to minimize and prevent individual and group dynamics; make timely and appropriate interventions when faced with unproductive conflict; and facilitate focused, harmonious, creative, and respectful group meetings.
Who Should Attend: If you lead meetings in any setting, whether at work or in your community, solid facilitation skills are critical for obtaining successful outcomes. This program will be of interest to internal/external consultants, change agents, trainers, team/project leaders, managers and executives.
Registration Information:
When: Spring: March 24-26, 2010, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Where: Vancouver, BC at the Blue Horizon Hotel. Download Registration Form. (Online Registration to open shortly).
Cost: $1,345 - social profit; $1,895 - general, plus GST. Costs include program handbook, all program materials, plus refreshment breaks. (Note: Read Registration information for significant Early Bird Savings)
Program Facilitators: Myriam Laberge: 604-943-9133 - info@breakthroughsunlimited.com and Brenda Chaddock: 604-929-4290 - brenda@followtheleader.ca.
Accommodation Choices: See possible hotels
