Strategic Facilitation

Who Should Attend

This one day workshop will be of value if you:

• Are responsible for facilitating complex issues
• Lead a change or transformation agenda
• Are involved in stakeholder meetings or sector engagements
• Regularly chair or facilitate senior level meetings, forums or gatherings
• Want to enhance your facilitation abilities and expand your repertoire

Course Content

This workshop is designed to be a highly active and interactive tranining experience. It will cover the following:

• Advanced concepts for understanding group work and reaching agreement
• Facilitation approaches for working on complex issues
• How to use powerful questions to facilitate group understanding
• How to deepen conversations and maximise contributions
• A range of proven facilitation processes and techniques
• Processes to reach agreement and gain commitment to actions/change
• How to adapt process and respond to group dynamics to ensure outcomes are achieved
• Facilitating when you're not the facilitator
• Practice on framing group conversation and reaching agreement

Learning Outcomes

The learning you can take from this workshop is:

• Understanding how to work with complex content and diverse challenging groups
• Ability to encourage good inquiry and deep conversation in groups
• Ability to guide a group to reach agreement and make decisions
• A larger range of techniques and processes to work effectively with groups
• Greater ability to be more nimble and fluid in your facilitation style and approach