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Advanced Facilitation Skills (PDAF)

Length 2 days

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Why study this course

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, two-day course will prepare you to handle most facilitation tasks and includes specific techniques and tools that allows managers to become excellent facilitators in both training and non-training environments.

Learn to distinguish facilitation from instruction and training, establish ground rules, develop facilitation techniques, give effective feedback, understand the stages of team development, and much more. 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 as required in any situation.

This course is delivered in partnership with PD Training.

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What you’ll learn

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
Use common process tools to make meetings easier and more productive
Define your role in facilitating
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
Understand the stages of team development
Use analysis tools

PD Training at Lumify Work

PD Training is Australia's leading provider of professional development training, cutting edge psychometric profiling and HR services. They help companies provide training and development to their staff that is on-target, fun, retained, and achieves their goals.
Lumify Work partners with PD Training to offer an extensive range of Professional Development training and short courses, through a network of over 400 specialist trainers.

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Who is the course for?

This course is intended for facilitators wishing to increase their skills.

This is a practical class that is suitable for all audiences, and provides participants with tools they can apply on-the-job (and in other contexts) the very next day.

Course subjects

Lesson 1: The Trusted Conductor

A Framework for Facilitating with Complexity
Group Capacities
LDP Review
Assessing and Convening

Lesson 2: Divergent Thinking

Listing Ideas - Brainstorming
Small Group Work
Individual Writing
Gap Analysis

Lesson 3: Convergent Thinking

Affinity Diagram
Pre-Defined Criteria
Straw Votes
Gap Analysis
Paradigm Shifting
Paradigm Shifting Techniques
Critical Reasoning

Lesson 4: Arriving at a Decision

Decision Rules
Decision Rules and High Stakes Decisions
Scales of Agreement

Lesson 5: People Management Strategies

When and How to Intervene
Groupthink

Lesson 6: Facilitating Specific Processes

Strategic Planning
Process Improvement
Force Field Analysis

Lesson 7: Reflections

Create an Action Plan
References

Prerequisites

Ideally you will have completed the Facilitation Skills course or already be a practicing facilitator.

THIRD PARTY REGISTRATION

Lumify Work offers training through our partnership with PD Training. This arrangement requires Lumify Work to provide your details to PD Training for course and/or exam registration purposes.

Terms & Conditions

The supply of this course by Lumify Work is governed by the booking terms and conditions. Please read the terms and conditions carefully before enrolling in this course, as enrolment in the course is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions.