Why Good Facilitation Skills are Essential
Now more than ever, leaders, managers and supervisors need to focus on communication and collaboration.
Your teams may be feeling anxious and are working under pressure. This can manifest in meetings - through disruption or complete disengagement.
You wish that everyone would play their roles effectively and your meetings or sessions would end with clear and meaningful outcomes. Yet often, you and others emerge frustrated or simply exhausted.
It feels harder, now that many of your sessions are online and you're trying to keep participants engaged and motivated. What if you're connecting globally and you barely know many of the participants? How do you make sure they feel included?
No one has really taught you how to conduct or facilitate sessions, yet alone, online or among a global audience.
Good facilitation skills are vital for business success, your career path as a leader and also for connecting people and bringing them together.
If you only could...
You've seen the skillful facilitator who gives space for participants to speak, feel heard, valued and who motivates them to become more engaged.
You will definitely notice if you are good at it or not – it shows in so many forms. Facilitation is a key skill that helps people to fully master group and team productivity, and enables others to feel invited, valuable and included.
You can do this too. With the increasing challenge of using online platforms to meet and connect globally, you need to pay attention to what is happening in the virtual space, so that you can keep the energy and discussion flowing – and get optimal results.
This course is for you if...
- You are a leader and want to upgrade your craft.
- You sense there is something missing in your efforts to get your message through.
- You work with people but don’t always 'get' them.
- You are a team leader, project manager or an expert facilitating a group.
This course provides you with practical, easy to apply techniques to take your facilitation skills to the next level.
Transform your meetings with your new facilitation skills
Instead of...
- going off agenda, you can now skillfully refocus the team back to the agenda and purpose.
- long and unproductive meetings, you can conduct shorter, effective meetings with clear outcomes.
- struggling to reach decisions, you can guide your team towards making decisions even when they have differing points of view.
- arguments, you can resolve conflict (at least in the meeting!)
Get immediate results when you apply what you learn. Soon, facilitating and conducting sessions and meetings will no longer feel stressful or tiring, but become more fun as you develop your skills and discover your innate talent.
You are noticed as a leader and may get promotions and a new career opportunities.
After this course you will be better able to...
Show up as the best version of yourself - benefiting you personally and everyone you interact with.
- Facilitate successful meetings
- Create understanding and trust
- Resolve conflicts
- Reach consensus quickly
- Build high performance teamwork
- Generate effective decision making
- Address people with different communication styles
- Observe signals in the group that need attention
- Course correct in challenging situations
Enjoy the ride!
Course Curriculum
Sign up for over 100 minutes of videos of information, practical tips and role play.
Check out the free previews.
Learn, Practice and Play!
LEARN
Watch our videos at your pace
Learn from over 15 videos showcasing Michael's masterful facilitation techniques as he and Carita break them down into seven modules through informing, role play and feedback from participants.
PRACTICE
With video prompts and downloadable handbook
With each module, you are given prompts for reflection to help you integrate what you have learnt into your own meetings and sessions with colleagues and associates.
These prompts help you deepen your emotional intelligence as well become more aware of the different styles of your participants and learn to engage the quietest members of your team!
The handbook serves as a guide to help you each time you conduct a meeting. We have designed worksheets for you to use for self assessment or with a friendly colleague who will give you constructive feedback.
PLAY
With other participants on our community platform
As a participant, you get to join our private space on The Speak Up Collective. Find buddies who can practice with you and give you feedback.
Meet your Instructors!
Michael Banks
I’m a leadership expert with over 30 years experience in coaching, training and facilitating leaders and their teams in various countries around the world. Currently I serve as Principal Consultant with PeopleSmart.fr and produce and host its podcast series ‘Leadership Luminaries’. A certified Genos practitioner, I’m passionate about Emotional Intelligence and have been teaching EI skills since the 1980s. As a writer, my recent articles include such topics as Skillful Authenticity and Leadership & Self-Awareness.
Find me on LinkedIn, my podcast on Leadership Luminaries, and PeopleSmart.
Carita Nyberg
Carita Nyberg
I'm the Keys2Balance Founder and Master Trainer and a Certified Transformative Leader.
20+ years of experience as Executive Coach, Speaker and Author. I spot hidden potential and create an immediate impact with my deep yet practical Keys2Balance® model for Leaders and Teams.
Signature Programs: Authentic Leader's Journey. Balancing toxic teams. Keys2Balance certifications.
10,000+ personally trained or coached.
AUTHOR of 7 Bestseller Leadership e-books (4 in English), > 100.000 downloads:
* Communication Skills
* Self Leadership
* Overcome Your Obstacles
* 9 Ways to Understand What Motivates Us
See my e-books, follow me on LinkedIn and check out Keys2Balance here.
Testimonials
The Essential Facilitation Skills workshop is fantastic. I enjoyed it and it gave me much better awareness of how I can host workshops and meetings more effectively. The workshop is dynamic, and interactive, which means that the participants get to try things 'hands on' - you can see how the skills work, and they them for yourself while also being completely immersed in a really well facilitated session.
The hosts are all fantastic - they bring their own experience with them, and share it openly and honestly, which was one of my favourite things about the team. They see each and every participant as a person, which is not always the case with training which can often be delivered in a 'one size fits all' fashion. Anyone who facilitates workshops, meetings and events should join this workshop.
Nicola Tonge, UK
I am very lucky to have participated in the Essential Facilitation Skills developed by Carita and Michael. The course provided both insightful feedback for one's growth and executable actionable items to help train folks to be aware and how to navigate super difficult and challenging situations.
I strongly recommend this course as part of building the company culture, part of a new manager development toolkit as well as refresher course for management.
Elaine Tan, Senior Compliance Manager, USA
The Essential Facilitation Skills workshop by Speak Up was an eye-opener for me. Carita and Michael, who led the sessions, clearly and expertly communicated the principles and practice of being good facilitators and moderators of meetings and discussions. I found the analyses of interpersonal dynamics insightful, fascinating and practical. Training wasn’t just a Powerpoint exposition - mock practice was very interesting and (dare I say it) fun, we got to see the principles we learned in action in different scenarios, from awkward silence to contentious posturing.
I’d highly recommend this to anyone who needs the right skills to conduct interactive sessions that are meaningful and productive.
KK Tang, Educator, Malaysia
The Speak Up Collective
As a course participant, you can join The Speak Up Collective, a global community platform focusing on safe, healthy and inclusive workplaces and join the exclusive private space to discuss and improve your facilitation skills with other participants. Michael and Carita will drop in and answer your questions!
Essential Facilitation Skills training for Companies
If you would like Michael and Carita to conduct this course for your people in-house, or facilitate important meetings for your leaders, contact [email protected] or [email protected]
