Who Will Benefit?
- Corporate Facilitators / Trainers
- Learning and Development Officers
- Training Consultants
Program Duration
4 Days
Workshop Content
Plan and design facilitation projects
Learn how to:
- Obtain mutual commitment to the project
- Facilitate client meetings to ascertain needs
- Identify a range of outcomes to address client need
- Create appropriate facilitation designs
- Develop project plans
- Establish a contract
- Implement tasks and activities
- Evaluate client satisfaction
Implement various facilitation methods and models
Learn how to:
- Respect client culture, norms and participant diversity
- Engage participation of those with varied learning/thinking styles
- Meet learner needs and project objectives
- Arrange the physical space to support purpose of event
- Prepare appropriate resources for the event
Foster group creativity in an interactive learning environment
Learn how to:
- Apply a variety of participatory processes
- Effective verbal communication skills
- Develop rapport
- Provide feedback to participants
- Create an atmosphere of safety and trust
- Draw out benefits from the diversity of the group
- Cultivate cultural awareness and sensitivity
- Identify and review underlying assumptions
- Provide a safe environment for conflict to surface
- Manage disruptive group behaviour
- Stimulate and foster group energy
Guide the group to consensus and desired outcomes
Learn how to:
- Establish a clear context
- Actively listen and question
- Recognise tangents and redirect group
- Manage group interactions and discussions
- Vary the pace of activities
- Assist the group in reflection
- Adapt processes and changing situations
- Evaluate and communicate group progress
Model a positive and professional attitude
Learn how to:
- Analyse contemporary learning and development theories
- Demonstrate these in a facilitation role
- Apply ethical and inclusive practices
- Facilitate problem solving and decision making models
- Distinguish process from task and context
- Evaluate own performance through self reflection
- Continually improve professional practice
- Engage in ongoing learning to support professional practice
- Maintain currency in your field of expertise through professional development activities
- Maintain relevant industry and facilitation networks
Ensure a healthy and safe learning environment
Learn how to:
- Understand occupational health and safety responsibilities in the learning environment
- Identify occupational health and safety needs of learners
- Identify any potential hazards and rectify issues
- Asses risks in the learning environment
- Apply risk controls to ensure the safety and welfare of learners
- Provide learners with appropriate information
- Monitor occupational health and safety in the learning environment
Course Fee
Members $3,195 (incl GST)
Non Members $3,550 (incl GST)
NEXT WORKSHOP
Wollongong Date to be advised