Facilitation Skills Training

(Half-day workshop)

During our Facilitation Skills Training workshop, delegates will build a practical understanding of their role as consultants. For Facilitation Skills Training, look no further than Elite Training in Northern Ireland.

Following the workshop, delegates will:

• Understand the purpose of consultation and their role in it
• Appreciate the need to prepare for a consultation to encourage discussion outcomes
• Know how to establish ground rules and encourage active participation
• Confidently mediate the nature & degree of participant contributions
• Confidently pose questions, summarise discussion threads, and obtain consensus
• Manage participant expectations
• Mediate aggressive & unacceptable participant behaviour

Proposed Workshop Content

The consultation process: your role & purpose

Preparing for consultation exercises:

• Clearly stating objectives & outcomes
• Developing question sets
• Recognising constraints & limitations to manage expectations

Opening the consultation session

Managing participation:

• Posing and directing Q&A’s
• Summarising discussion threads and obtaining consensus
• Maintaining involvement
• Making proposals
• Setting the example for respectful behaviour & communication
• Dealing with unacceptable behaviour

Format

This master-class workshop is highly practical, combining:

• Tutorial sessions that contextualise practical sessions
• Tutor-led discussions
• Group exercises
• Individual exercises
• Reflection & action-planning for continued development

Contact Elite Training  

Get in touch with the team at Elite Training to discuss Facilitation Skills Training in Northern Ireland by calling +44 28 9024 2622 now.