Facilitating Meetings with Ease
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
A well-run meeting creates alignment, clarity and motivates a group to action. Ineffective meetings lead to frustration, wasted resources and disengaged staff. With so many organizations recognizing the prohibitive cost of unproductive meetings, it is no wonder that meeting facilitation has become a core competency for anyone who must help groups to work collaboratively to achieve critical outcomes.
Facilitating Meetings with Ease is by far our most popular and comprehensive workshop. In this highly interactive workshop, we equip learners with the tools, techniques and templates needed to lead any outcomes-driven conversation. Whether you’re new to facilitation or have years of experience, this workshop provides a unique opportunity to enhance your mastery of any group situation.
Facilitating Meetings With Ease March 18 & 19, 2024
Great session! Many good tips and techniques to use in our work
Facilitating Meetings With Ease - June 14, 15, 21 & 22, 2023 - B
Was an excellent training course!!! Hands on sessions were wonderful interactions and role play were what makes this training course the best you can get!
Facilitating Meetings With Ease - May 3 & 4, 2023 - B
Great Session, liked the mix of learn and do…really hit the sweet spot to keep it engaging
Facilitating Meetings With Ease - May 1 & 2, 2023 - B
Greatly enjoyed the experience and found these tools/techniques directly applicable to improving the work I do
Facilitating Meetings with Ease - August 17, 2023 - D
I have been "facilitating" meetings for a long time and this really helped me grasp the actual skills, tools, and process. Thank you for this experience!
WORKSHOP DELIVERY OPTIONS
Manage Yourself
- Learn the role and beliefs of the facilitator in the context of creating powerful meetings that engage, inspire and achieve outcomes
- Embrace the 5 core facilitation practices to foster highly collaborative group dynamic
Manage the Process
- Recognize the importance of meeting structure by making your meetings POP – Define the meeting ‘purpose’, ‘outcomes’ and ‘process’
- Learn how to effectively prepare for, design, start, manage and end a meeting
- Learn the four-step consensus building process, including creative brainstorming and prioritization techniques
- Understand how to test for agreement and what ‘consensus’ really means
Manage the Group
- Learn inclusive techniques and best practices that keep participants engaged and allow for a diversity of opinions to be heard
- Understand how to proactively establish and referee group norms to minimize conflict
- Gain clarity as to when and how to intervene when challenging behaviors threaten meeting outcomes
- Practice new tools in a safe learning environment and receive personal tips and coaching
- Project Managers – earn 14 PDUs
- Human Resources Professionals – earn CPD hours
- Managers or Team Leaders at any level
- Professionals who need to increase buy-in and decrease resistance in group settings
- Six Sigma and Lean Professionals
- Internal or external Consultants
- Business Analysts
- Anyone who leads groups or collaborative meetings to achieve critical outcomes
- A Participant Workbook filled with templates, reminders and methods you can refer to when applying new skills to any meeting (digital manual provided for Virtual Delivery)
- Certificate of Completion that can also be applied to our Facilitative Leadership Certificate Program
- 14 PDU’s through PMI
- 14 CPD hours through HRPA
- 14 Continuing Professional Development Points, through CMC
- A bestselling facilitation manual, ‘Facilitating with Ease!’ by Ingrid Bens (available for an additional fee)
Great session! Many good tips and techniques to use in our work
Kerry Wasmuth, 3s Health, March 2024
Was an excellent training course!!! Hands on sessions were wonderful interactions and role play were what makes this training course the best you can get!
Kristy Johnson, June 2023
Great Session, liked the mix of learn and do…really hit the sweet spot to keep it engaging
Rod Washbrook, RBC, May 2023
Greatly enjoyed the experience and found these tools/techniques directly applicable to improving the work I do
Abby Esterly, AFPM, May 2023
I have been "facilitating" meetings for a long time and this really helped me grasp the actual skills, tools, and process. Thank you for this experience!
Delia Sinclair Frigaul, Ontario College of Pharmacists, August 2023
