The leading expert on facilitation leadership strategies. Facilitation skills are generally thought of as those needed to run workshops andor awaydays. Our attitude and behaviour as facilitators of tools, of empowerment and of development, is of prime importance. If youre a trainer or manager whos been tasked with facilitating a workshop, it is a good idea to learn the basics of facilitation to help both you and your participants get the most from the experience. Tools, techniques and tips for effective facilitation. Facilitation techniques are used for information collecting, decision making, communication, and meeting. A f acilitators guide tools do not guarantee success. Essential facilitation skills for an effective facilitator. Tedxhampshirecollege jay vogt the art of facilitation. Facilitation skills for trainers 4 the facilitation company expert meeting facilitators and facilitation training in the u. After completion of the workshop, participants have gained skills to elaborate a. Facilitation techniques and workshop activities sessionlab.
Facilitator guidelines for conducting a planning workshop counselling cards from caring for the newborn in the community family counselling cards from caring for the childs healthy growth and development 2 i. Would you like to design more interactive and engaging workshops, presentations, and speeches. Sample workshop agenda 16 workshop moderator and recorder guide 16 discussion guide 19 section 4. It helps you build a shared understanding within a team about what is working well, areas in need of improvement and areas of opportunity. If your group is one of them, be sure to read a good manual or book on.
Get students perspectives about what to cover cover a topic more or less fully based upon their feedback 5. Getting to success 24 oneday workshop overview 24 a word about presentation slides and handouts 25 oneday workshop agenda 25 what to do next 32. A guide to participatory action planning and techniques. Adapt the workshop activities in this guide to suit your facilitation style and the group youre working with.
Developing facilitative leadership groups that need to make decisions or engage in a planning process often find that using a trained facilitator makes this process more efficient and easier for everyone involved. A facilitator will need to know several basic pieces of information. Instructions for how to use each validation method can be found in training validation methods. Differences between a facilitator and a topdown trainer point out. Workshop facilitation techniques this course is designed to explore the rich communication skills and techniques required to successfully facilitate workshops and meetings in a business context.
Skills and characteristics of a good facilitator 1. A good facilitator can keep meetings focused on the subject of discussion or on dealing with the problem at hand. Below are the directions from an office to a house. When teachers act as facilitators this allows the student to retain control, or at least to have a stake in directing their learning 4. Hundreds of group facilitation activities for workshops, meetings and training sessions.
In addition, anyone tasked with facilitating a workshop or group meeting will also find the techniques in this course applicable to a wide range of scenarios. Workshop facilitation skills getting the process right. Facilitation is the glue that holds a group together. Participatory facilitation techniques 2 technique how to apply in meetings card sorting is a way of gathering and organizing ideas that draws on the knowledge of the whole group. Photos from facilitation skills training workshop in luweero with implementing partner staff. Most facilitators will tell you that, in fact, their skills range much more widely and are generally about supporting processes, which may include team building, project management and change management it is possible, although perhaps more difficult, to facilitate a process from within, that is. Workshop facilitation techniques volume 2 powerpoint. To be effective as a facilitator, you should help the group you are working with get further, faster and in a more focused way than they would alone and help them have some fun along the way. Find the best team building activities, energisers, process facilitation and leadership development techniques. Promising practices for successful facilitation and recording 25 responsibilities, characteristics, and techniques of the effective facilitator 26 fundamental techniques of an effective facilitator 28. Guidelines are presented on how and when each style is most useful in the setting of a facilitated risk workshop. Facilitation tools for meetings and workshops seeds for change. A good facilitator can keep meetings focused on the subject of discussion or on dealing with the problem.
Brainstorming techniques free ppt and pdf downloads. A facilitator in a participatory workshop creates a supportive environment in which learning can take place. Purpose facilitation techniques accelerate the capture of planning, analysis and design information and ensure that session participants work together effectively. A howto guide for assessing participant learning downloadable at. Interactive theory and practical sessions engage delegates in a variety of realistic scenarios. It includes a collection of plenary and small group activities that have been used successfully in previous quality action training workshops. Some participants will prefer to chat or use whiteboard. This poses a question on the level of understanding of messages in the areas where we work. It is used to determine whether the participants in a training learned what the facilitator intended for them to learn.
Learning outcomes our aim is to add value to you and your organisation by giving you practical skills in workshop facilitation. Facilitation tools for meetings and workshops unite youth dublin. This is where facilitation comes into the picture facilitation is the art of making meetings participative and more effective. Methods, tools and techniques do not guarantee participation. An educator or trainer is seen as an expert who brings extensive knowledge of the subject to participants. Many people are nervous about speaking in public, or in an unfamiliar. Practice your facilitation before the actual event. The role of a facilitator is to help the body move through their intended agenda, reach decisions that all participants can support, and help ensure that these decisions are in harmony with the principles of the na program. An interactive workshop for facilitators to practice core skills shadowing and feedback for new facilitators regular followup discussion groups this guide is intended to be a lightweight set of techniques and tactics distilled from the full course, designed to help facilitators develop and sharpen their debriefing facilitation skills. Confucius 450 bc running a workshop is a great way to share your skills or to help people learn from each other. Facilitation is concerned both with workshop content and workshop execution. Facilitation skills for trainers leadership strategies. A running a facilitation skills workshop 59 b workshop timetable 61 c handouts 62 d energisers 73 e participatory bible studies 74 f useful resources 76 index 78 glossary 80 contents.
In broad terms, facilitation is the process of making something easier or less difficult. Validation options validation is another way to say assessment or preposttest. Facilitation is critical tool and skill to have, as employers and society face bigger and more complex problems and ideas. Some of the techniques profiled in this miniworkshop are listed below.
A good way to make things easier for yourself, and improve the quality of the workshop is to ask. Interpersonal skills interpersonal skills are essential for effectively developing selfawareness, awareness of others and awareness of the group dynamics. The activities in the deliverable follow a before, during and after chronology to help understand the steps to be taken in each phase of the workshop. Some young people, for example disabled young people, may need the activities to be adapted to meet their specific needs. There is very little facilitation involved as it is easy for people to grasp what they have to do and why they are doing it. Facilitation techniques technique description breakout groups some groups can be too large to enable indepth discussion. The aim of the article is to provide you with some guidelines and help you understand the fundamentals of facilitating a workshop. It gave me tools and techniques, and i think, most of all, a real sense of confidence a lot of what being a facilitator is about is managing the content and the process at the same time. The role is to work with a group of farmers who are in much the same situation, to drawout knowledge and ideas from different members of a group, and to help them learn from each other and to think and act together.
Creating group exercises is different for each workshop. An effective facilitator helps a group accomplish a goal, such as understand or solve a problem, explore opportunities, define requirements, make decisions, or other objectives. These are the process skills we use to guide and direct key parts of our organizing work with groups of people such as meetings, planning sessions, and training of our members and leaders. Charts 1 training objectives 8 2 training committees 9 3 information sources 11 4 sources of information on health 11. Using a variety of techniques will help a much wider range of people engage fully in your workshop or meeting. This workshop facilitation and design program launched at dartmouth is for people who lead workshops or discussions and need to teach, facilitate, engage, and get results with a group. This workshop facilitation manual aims to assist trainers in providing quality improvement workshops in their countries and organisations. This document is adapted from the facilitation skills for trainers course manual and other proprietary materials of leadership strategies, inc. Handsignals are a simple technique that can make workshops and meetings run more smoothly and help the facilitator see emerging agreements and common. In the petrol pump model, the student is viewed as an empty head, and the trainers job is to fill it up with knowledge. Facilitation tips and interventions reef resilience. We all vary in things like how we take in information most easily, whether we prefer to speak in large groups or small ones, whether we need to move our bodies for our minds. A guide to effective facilitation 3 learning example.
Getting everyone involved is key to a successful workshop. Read through the directions and study them for 2030 seconds only. Leadership strategies grants recipient right to copy materials for personal use and enjoyment. You will will see highimpact activities that work for. Many of these skills are used in other leadership and management activities, such as coaching or mentoring. Then, cover the note with a separate sheet of paper and answer the questions on the next page. A guide to participatory action planning and techniques for facilitating groups. Supporting people taking action for the wise use of wetlands and other natural resources through an integrated approach to planning communication, education, participation and awareness raising cepa. If you stand up and talk for three hours, youre just giving a lecture not facilitating a workshop. On the other hand, meetings are also a frequent source of frustration and many people simply prefer to avoid meetings to protect their productive working hours. The ability to keep the group on task to achieve the goal is the. Cofacilitation facilitating a workshop takes a lot of energy. Groups that need to make decisions or engage in a planning process often find that using a trained facilitator makes this process more efficient and easier for everyone involved.
This paper begins by explaining the basic theory of facilitation, including the role of the facilitator and the range of available facilitation styles across the facilitation spectrum. Introduction to facilitation facilitate means to make easy. Similar to 25to10, each participant reflects on a question and writes one idea on a card or postit you can allow people to generate more than one card. Facilitation techniques the following techniques are used by facilitators during meetings to assist groups in accomplishing their objectives. Group facilitation techniques and methods ksl training. Our role is not to create solutions, but to learn to ask questions, be open, and. Workshop facilitation skills 2day course irm training. Facilitation tools for meetings and workshops a compilation of tools and techniques for working in groups and facilitating meetings or workshops. Workshops will introduce tools and techniques for facilitating group discussion, ideas, and activities. Over 500 facilitators under contract through the facilitator database over 17,000 trained in facilitation skills through the effective facilitator and other courses. Meetings are great opportunities to innovate, solve problems and make decisions with the collective intelligence of a group. The following tips for facilitators apply to all of the training techniques described.
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