Facilitation Skills: Facilitating High Performing Meetings

Name: Facilitation Skills: Facilitating High Performing Meetings
Rating: 4.1 (8 reviews)

A course to help you develop your facilitation skills for business

Created byRoss Maynard

Last updated 11/2020

English

What you'll learn

The principles of good facilitation
The skills of a good facilitator
How create an environment of trust, creativity and involvement
How to plan a facilitation session
The key elements of facilitation in a meeting
Generating and refining improvement ideas
Action Planning
How to keep your facilitation fresh
How to give feedback

Course content

1 section • 14 lectures • 1h 14m total length

What is Facilitation?5:08
An introduction to business facilitation
L2 The Principles of Good Facilitation7:40
The key principles of good facilitation
L3 The Skills of a Good Facilitator6:53
The skills you need to become a good facilitator
L4 Building an Environment of Creativity, Trust and Involvement6:39
How to create that environment of creativity, trust and involvement in your facilitation sessions
L5 Exercise: Planning a Facilitation Session3:54
A short exercise to help you plan a facilitation session
L6 Preparing to Facilitate5:28
Getting ready to facilitate your session
L7 Exercise: Planning your Agenda3:31
A short exercise to help you plan the agenda for a facilitation session
L8 Facilitating the Meeting5:54
The elements of facilitation in a meeting
L9 Generating and Refining Ideas for Improvement6:20
Tools you can use to help the group generate and refine ideas for improvement
L10 Action Planning5:03
Creating an action plan for your session
L11 Keeping it Fresh4:08
How to mix things up to keep your facilitation sessions fresh
L12 Giving Feedback4:35
Sometimes you will have to give feedback to a participant in your sessions. Here's what to do.
L13 Giving Feedback Exercise3:55
A short exercise on giving feedback to someone
L14 Key Learning Points on Facilitation Skills5:51
The ley learning points from this course

Requirements

There are no pre-course requirements

Description

Aside from professional or technical skills, I believe that facilitation is one of the most important skills you can possess in business.

Facilitation is fun and empowering. It is a skill that will really boost your self-confidence and give you internal strength that will help you in many areas from interviews to presentations to working with teams.

This course will help you.

In business, facilitation is about being an intermediary through whom discussions and actions can be coordinated more easily; and decisions reached more efficiently.

Business facilitation comprises two elements:

1. Providing a structure for the session that encourages a breadth of thinking, and engages everyone in the group

2. Creating a safe environment for people to air views and work together in a spirit of cooperation and trust

This course, Facilitating High Performing Meetings, will cover everything you need to develop effective facilitation skills including the principles of good facilitation; planning a facilitation session; generating and refining ideas; action planning; and giving feedback.

It takes skill, patience and emotional intelligence to be a good facilitator. The most important part of the role is to balance the personalities and agendas of the participants to ensure everyone can contribute in an environment of openness and support.

This course will help you. I hope you enjoy it.

Who this course is for:

Anyone who wants to improve their facilitation skills
Business Management students
Managers and staff in organisations