Maximum Performance Training Workshops
Facilitation For Teams
"The increased focus on teams and employee participation requires a new leadership style and some new leadership skills. Employee participation requires leaders to be more facilitative and less controlling, to direct less and empower more. Participative leaders must know how to involve others, build consensus, and get commitment from those they lead."
This one-day workshop provides the basic tools for more effective participation in teams. It examines the roles played during meetings, discussions, and other team communications. An emphasis is placed on facilitation to move processes forward versus dominating and controlling.
Workshop Objectives:
- Learn how to lead team meetings and discussions through facilitation
- Utilize facilitation techniques to draw upon the expertise, knowledge, and experience of team members
- Understand various roles and responsibilities of both the team member and the team leader
- Facilitate more effective meetings that will focus energies on the task at hand
What you'll learn
- How to improve the productivity of any meeting
- Facilitating versus managing
- Facilitation myths
- Team life cycle and facilitator role evolution
- Mining Group Gold: The quality approach to group interaction
- How to prepare for a productive group session
- Primary and secondary facilitation
- Collaboration tools and techniques
- How to stimulate discussions by questioning and listening
- A three step model for dealing with emotions
- How to identify various meeting robbers, determine how they hurt the productivity of the group and explore strategies for stopping them
- And much more...
Benefits
- Facilitate more effective team meetings and discussions without dominating the thinking
- Recognize opportunities for process improvement in team meetings and discussions and then be able to confidently make the changes