Basic Facilitation

Basic Facilitation is an engaging half-day workshop with video and interactive role plays  that teaches all level of employees  how to run dynamic, effective meetings. Filled with a wealth of invaluable information, the Basic Facilitation video and workbook shares practical skills on the meeting process and secrets for increasing productivity and improving group interactions. How to listen, how to give and receive feedback, how to turn disruptive individuals such as "snipers", "overbearers", "rushers", and "avoiders" into constructive participants.

Key Training Points:

• open a meeting- room setup/setting tone of meeting/make introductions/establish ground rules
• run a meeting- manage the discussion-balance participation-manage transitions-identify strategic moments-use group's resources
• handle disruptive behavior-identify different types of disruptive behaviors-learn sure-fire strategies for dealing with difficult participants
• close a meeting-review agenda-summarize decisions and recommendations-determine remaining issues-manage follow-up actions-evaluate meeting

Ask employees at your company what they think of meetings, and they'll probably roll their eyes and grumble, yet research shows that managers and team members spend from 20% to 40% of their time in meetings, and salespeople spend more than 40%.    So instead of running meetings that meander and fail to interest participants, your facilitators will create effective group interactions that inspire and motivate employees to achieve individual and corporate goals.