Fast Forward Facilitation:
Winning the Race to Results
 in Record Time!

Effective facilitation skills give people, teams and organizations a high performance edge. Benefit from Susan Wilson's understanding of, and ability to share, practical and realistic processes that enable people to work, trust, and communicate most effectively.

In many situations, facilitation skills can be developed by one or more members within a group. Not everyone can be a great facilitator, nor will most of us be Tiger Woods on the golf course. However, by correctly applying the key principles of meeting management, presentation skills, influence, and facilitation skills, you can develop your people to facilitate meetings that deliver amazing results.

This program is highly interactive, provides immediate feedback, and helps to build a network of support among the participants. Throughout this 5-module program, relevant homework links the skills to the workplace where they are immediately applicable. With skilled facilitation, overcome obstacles and barriers to team successes!

Acquire essential skills for effectively bringing people together by mastering the following:

• Eliminate problem-causing communication
• Develop facilitation skills that achieve desired outcomes
• Use strategies for managing meetings, honoring group dynamics and achieving your goals
• Build presentation skills that clearly define your leadership
• Overcome obstacles and reduce barriers in group dynamics

"Meeting skills training should be the number one thing on your training budget, because poorly run meetings are the number one time-waster," -- Dike Drummond, CEO at SuperTeams LLC

Session 1 – Getting the Race on Track -
Meeting Management

Sadly, too many meetings cost far more time, energy and hard dollars than what they yield in results. This segment zeroes in on specific strategies for raising the value of meetings immediately. Participants learn to execute meetings that enhance the relationships of participants and consistently achieve desired goals. Key objectives of this 4-7 hour segment include:

• Developing guidelines that reduce conflict
• Structuring the segments of a meeting to achieve desired objectives
• Knowing the purposes of meeting to enhance clear outcomes

Session 2 – Fueling the Win -
Facilitation Skills

Leaders of meetings often fall short in achieving desired outcomes because they do not have the skills to manage communication among participants. Without certain skills, efforts are quickly derailed when participants push their own agendas, retreat, and/or play mind games. Objectives of this 4-7 hour session overcome these barriers. The focus is on:

• Strategies to guarantee balanced contribution
• Managing difficult behaviors in participants
• Listening as a key to achieving desired outcomes

Session 3 – Make Yours More Than a Voice in the Crowd-
Presentation Skills

Most of us have heard it a dozen times – more people say they fear speaking in public more than they fear death. This doesn’t help organizations where the ability to speak well in team situations impacts goals to be achieved for the company and the employee’s career. Most of us must learn to communicate our ideas effectively. This session, although initially challenging, ranks as a favorite time and time again. Participant rejoice in their ability to advance from verbal stumbles to smooth, five minute (videotaped!) presentations – in just 7 hours*! Focus is on:

• Presentation Skills
• Platform Mechanics
• Preparation and Delivery

*There is even greater value when participants are taught to use exercises, icebreakers, and activities in relevant and meaningful ways (add ½ day).

Session 4 – Drivers to Success -
Influence

A key to influencing others is the ability to persuade. Effective persuasion includes honoring trust as well as agenda! Highlights of this 4-7 hour segment target:

• Building trust to enhance persuasion in 10 specific ways
• Identifying / resolving barriers to influencing
• Communication traps that damage your ability to persuade

Session 5 – Putting the Pedal to the Medal -
Pulling it All Together on a Project
and Graduation!

Sessions 1-4 are chock full of strategies that build ability to facilitate a group – regardless of size or the goal to be achieved. Participants need to transition their skill to relevant workplace issues.  This 4-7 hour segment provides that opportunity with helpful feedback. The focus is on:

Facilitation of a meeting, addressing a current organizational issue

• Graduation
• Celebration (!)
• Related Resources

Related Resources:

Present But Not Accounted For - Live recording of Susan's 1-hour teleclass with Steve Davis (a Facilitator University Best Seller!)

Facilitate to Invigorate  by Susan B. Wilson (Powerful CD and workbook set that provides you with more than 75 essential tools for working with groups and persuading others to action.

Gourmet Meetings on a Microwave Schedule by Susan B. Wilson -
"The perfect book for those who don't need to follow Robert's Rules of Order, but still need to get the most out of every meeting - whether their role is that of coordinator or attendee." --Service Specialist, Grinnell College

Goal Setting by Susan B. Wilson

Gourmet Meetings on a Microwave Schedule - Part I by Susan B. Wilson (FREE! on-line article providing practical solutions to 1 of the 5 most common meeting complaints.)

Gourmet Meetings on a Microwave Schedule - Part II by Susan B. Wilson (FREE! on-line article tackling the 2nd (of 5) most common meeting complaints.)

We’ve Got to Start Meeting Like This by Susan B. Wilson (FREE! on-line article)

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