Two key components in our ability to achieve desired
results are capabilities and focus. As leaders, we need
to balance these in order to yield those results as effectively
as possible. Leaders, managers, supervisors and project
leads must have the ability to bring the best out in their
people in order to achieve the maximum results possible
for any given initiative or project. A paramount skill
for any of these positions is understanding when and how
to facilitate your team.
ELS has developed workshops that help individuals in leadership
positions develop the key facilitation skills necessary
to yield those desired results. The key to successful facilitation
is helping teams and individuals get to a solution without
creating it for them. Getting individuals to buy into a
process, and more importantly take ownership of it, requires
focused training in
specific areas.
Examples of what is covered in our Facilitation Skills
workshop include: |
- Role of a facilitator
- Instructor fundamentals
- Establishing and maintaining forward focus
- Driving where teams and individuals are focused through the use of effective questions
- Creating an environment where people feel comfortable and valuable by being involved
- Learning to interpret peoples’ thoughts and comments and translating them into manageable concepts for a group
- Learning to communicate boundaries for individuals and groups that allow facilitators to maximize time and recourses during a given session
- Potential pitfalls for facilitators
Some of the key concepts and tools that facilitators will be exposed to include:
- Forward Focus - The importance of focus in influencing without authority, and the importance of focusing on the needs of others first to get what you want done.
- Effective Questions - What questions can you ask yourself to diagnose issues? What questions can you ask others to influence others? Deeper discussion on how to craft and use effective questions.
- Framework - The five step tool that can align people in matrix organizations. When and when not to use it and also how to best facilitate it. Using different version to over come various challenges.
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"Effective facilitation is the ability to influence where teams focus, without driving the solution. Facilitation then becomes the balancing fulcrum between leading and managing groups
and individuals.
-Ed Gillcrist |
Change Management Working Lab
Change Management in the Age of Instability
Building Teams that Run at the Pace of Change
Leadership in Times of Change
Improving Performance & Profitability During Times of Change
Presentation Skills
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