2-day hands-on clinic for leaders on facilitation tools, techniques and processes to promote productive team participation and performance
Revitalise your team’s functionality and bring your leadership to life
Why facilitation? Team-working can be really effective. But truth is, many teams tend to flounder if left entirely to their own devices. People get distracted, diverted or lost in the detail, paying lots of attention to what has to be done – with little (if any) awareness of how they’re going about doing it.
To get great results, teams need good group process. This is where the facilitation role comes in. Asking good questions, clarifying, focusing on goals, summarising and making a team’s work easier by structuring and guiding patterns of participation – all crucial in all team settings.
Anyone can learn how to facilitate, but integrating facilitation into your leadership approach is a terrific opportunity for leaders to encourage more collaboration, involvement and accountability within their teams while inspiring more focused activity, more constructive conversations and more harmonious, creative and supportive relationships.
Are you facing any of these team challenges at work?
- Discussions dominated by a few outspoken or overly-assertive individuals?
- Poor processes for generating ideas, sharing information or making decisions?
- Lack of engagement, stagnation, withdrawal, disinterest or passivity?
- Conversations go off-track, round in circles or don’t dig down deep enough?
- Ongoing stand-offs, feuds, competition or rivalry between team members?
- Unresolved differences or lack of clarity about goals and priorities?
- Decisions and actions not sufficiently supported or actioned (and often resisted)?
- Groups discussions deteriorate into debate and argument, and nothing gets solved?
Leaders profit from playing the role of facilitator
Facilitative leadership is a set of tools and a style of personal influence every team can benefit from. As a facilitator, you’re a powerful model for skilful listening, constructive conversation and collaborative problem-solving. The intent is to achieve maximum involvement, creativity and commitment to the task at hand, while channelling conflict and disagreement constructively.
Most people you lead want to be involved and consulted, not coerced. We’ve known for ages how this raises motivation, commitment and satisfaction levels – and stimulates enhanced productivity.
With its focus on asking not telling, engaging and guiding rather than controlling or directing, pulling together rather than competing, a facilitated approach gives leaders a new way of relating – of developing your team to direct themselves rather than lead from the top.
That’s where Facilitating Effective Teams comes in...
This two-day, hands-on, practice-based clinic is packed with robust models, roadmaps and a comprehensive array of track-tested tools that lay a solid foundation to master what matters most for sound team facilitation in a wide range of settings – team meetings, strategic planning, problem-solving and decision-making sessions, training, community consultation, team-building, classroom teaching and more.
Greater engagement
Stronger strategy
More meaningful meetings
Closer collaboration
More agile thinking
Higher team functioning
Clearer vision
Better conversations
I’ve done quite a bit of facilitating before but Facilitating Effective Teams was informative, interactive and relevant. Excellent content with a great take-away guide that gave me new tools for my toolbox. I plan to use some with my teams and colleagues. Bill you did great. I found you approachable, respectful, very inclusive and engaging.
With plenty of chances to practise in a safe and supportive setting, you’ll learn how to:
Enhance your Team
Focus group energy,
unleash creativity and
get more engagement
Uplift Your Capacity
To facilitate more
constructive conversations
and dialogues
Recharge your Team
Stimulate more constructive group interaction, information exchanges and positive behaviours
Re-invigorate Meetings
Increase participation and
make them more productive
and fun
Encourage Your Team
Help teams generate ideas, share information, sets goals, solve problems and make decisions
Do It Yourself
Design great facilitation
sessions and effective group processes
Understand Your Team
Read what’s going on and grasp fundamental patterns and frameworks behind facilitation
Use the Toolkit
Choose the right facilitation tool to suit your particular team, tasks and context
Deal with Team Issues
Handle challenging group dynamics and difficult team moments with more poise
Leading teams in more facilitative, engaging and productive ways
There’s more to facilitation than routine meeting mechanics. It’s a philosophy about how to help groups navigate their way through what they have to do in ways that maximise contributions, create cohesion, harness collective ideas and energies – and, ideally, have a bit of fun along the way.
Facilitating effectively requires an enabling, empowering, disciplined-but-relaxed approach. In this highly practical program we’ll explore how you can help to open minds so people can see the connections between tasks and the team, in an enjoyable, constructive and liberating way – not an overly directive, ‘do-this-now’ style.
Facilitative leaders work behind-the-scenes to get results for their teams. They work in partnership with them to create a climate where they help them discover for themselves what to do, where people are encouraged and entrusted to take action. See our Article: Why Facilitation is Fundamental to Leadership.
I learned some great strategies for encouraging participation within a group from each member, and also how to be an effective facilitator.
The hands on activities and taking turns to facilitate were very useful and the facilitation guide is an excellent resource to flick back through and refresh. Thank you so much again for the two days. I found them so valuable and have learned a great deal.
Some highlights to expect from attending this highly interactive hands-on clinic:
Complete a Facilitation Styles, Skills and Challenges Inventory to help set goals and target your facilitation efforts
Practise a wide variety of fundamental facilitation tools in a safe, supportive small group setting
Identify everyday back-at-work team tasks to apply facilitation tools to
Take home a comprehensive self-coaching guide featuring more than 50 step-by-step facilitation tools
Thoroughly enjoyed the workshop – it delivered on facilitation strategies and models and has given me much food for thought… An informative, practical approach with good practice opportunities. It gave me more confidence to apply different tools in different scenarios.
Facilitating Effective Teams Toolkit
complimentary when attending our clinic
Handy take-away Toolkit stacked with tips, tools and actions you can tap into to build on what we cover in the workshop.
“The facilitation toolkit is a great resource. Thank you for the time in putting it together. Usually I only get ‘handouts’ when attending training.” Barbara H. – Queensland Health
Facilitation can help your leadership flourish, and your team function more effectively
Is this clinic for you?
This practical, action-learning clinic can benefit anyone who wants to strengthen their ability to work in more effective and engaging ways with teams or groups – directors, team-leaders, change-agents, coordinators, committee members, chairpersons, principals, trainers, teachers or other professionals.
It’s especially useful for leaders who want to adopt a more facilitative style and lift their capability to work better with teams, but also relevant for:
New leaders making the leap from ‘doing’ to ‘leading’
Facilitators needing to refresh their approach
Trainers wanting confidence to facilitate not just train
Consultants wanting to refine facilitation skills and find new tips and tricks
Your Facilitator - a Brief Introduction...
Bill Cropper
Director
“When I look back on my facilitation track record so far, I realise that what I’ve learned about practical facilitation, comes not just from facilitating myself or with others, but also, more importantly, from those I’ve helped learn facilitation, who’ve taught me valuable lessons about what seems to work when it comes to helping groups work effectively together…”
Your presenter, Bill Cropper, is an accomplished, lively and engaging facilitator, with over 25 years practical experience helping all sorts of teams in all kinds of cultural contexts, work collaboratively together to achieve results that matter most to them. His facilitation assignments encompass a broad spectrum of events and topics in a variety of business settings.
He’s authored numerous facilitation guides, trained literally thousands of executives, leaders, trainers, project groups and work-teams to develop critical facilitation skills needed to achieve their outcomes, and run a remarkable array of facilitation skills clinics, leadership programs, complex change and culture strategy sessions; work process redesign and team formation programs; future search and community development sessions, to name a few.
“Bill is a dynamic, people-focused facilitator - a warm and engaging person who puts everyone at ease to maximise group learning and create a supportive and safe environment. I feel very comfortable attending your courses as I like your relaxed, open, non-judgemental style as a facilitator.”
Pauline B. - Queensland Heath
Bill Cropper
Director
“When I look back on my facilitation track record so far, I realise that what I’ve learned about practical facilitation, comes not just from facilitating myself or with others, but also, more importantly, from those I’ve helped learn facilitation, who’ve taught me valuable lessons about what seems to work when it comes to helping groups work effectively together…”
Your presenter, Bill Cropper, is an accomplished, lively and engaging facilitator, with over 25 years practical experience helping all sorts of teams in all kinds of cultural contexts, work collaboratively together to achieve results that matter most to them. His facilitation assignments encompass a broad spectrum of events and topics in a variety of business settings.
He’s authored numerous facilitation guides, trained literally thousands of executives, leaders, trainers, project groups and work-teams to develop critical facilitation skills needed to achieve their outcomes, and run a remarkable array of facilitation skills clinics, leadership programs, complex change and culture strategy sessions; work process redesign and team formation programs; future search and community development sessions, to name a few.
“Bill is a dynamic, people-focused facilitator - a warm and engaging person who puts everyone at ease to maximise group learning and create a supportive and safe environment. I feel very comfortable attending your courses as I like your relaxed, open, non-judgemental style as a facilitator.”
Pauline B. - Queensland Heath
“I really liked your facilitation style and manner of facilitating the group. I learned a lot, not only from the content, but also from your own style. I may even steal a couple of little activities that you used to use in some of my own facilitation.”
Alison R. - Community Corrections
Cost & Registration
Come along with colleagues to save more!
2-day Program
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$1100
October Special + Spring Discounts 2022
2-days Live On-location
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880$825 -
$825
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$792
Live ONLINE
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$770
Note: In-House clinics recommended for 10 or more
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The fine print...
- All prices include GST… Discounts apply from date registered
- Payment due on registration - pay by Card or by EFT (secure payment gateway provided)
- Pay online or on invoice within 10 days and prior to attendance
- Fees are non-refundable but may be transferred to an alternative event up to 14 days prior
- Minimum numbers required at The Change Forum’s discretion
- Venue: CBD venues confirmed on registration - Social distancing & hygiene precautions observed
- Inclusions: Tuition, comprehensive self-coaching Toolkit (light lunch, refreshments for 2-day Clinics), intersession communiques, additional readings & slide-shares for online program
- Timing - Workshops: 9.00/8.30 am - 4.30 pm each day (arrive 15 mins prior Day 1)
- Timing - ONLINE: 9.30 am - 1.00 pm each Session (allow extra 10 mins before & after)
- All registrants will be added to our mailing list for additional resources, information and updates but may choose to unsubscribe, if preferred, any time after conclusion of the event
Note: For wellbeing of all participants, please do not attend an in-person workshop if you have symptoms of COVID-19 or Flu. Please take a RAT test prior to attending if you have been in close contact with someone diagnosed with COVID-19, in which case, please do not attend. If a substitute attendee cannot be arranged to replace you, and a course transfer to another date is not feasible, a fee refund will be provided.
Keen for all your leaders to update facilitation skills together?
Run Facilitating Effective Teams in-house at your place and save...
If public dates or locations don’t suit, you have 10 or more people interested in attending, or you want to run something more tailored to your team or unit, an on-site clinic may be more economical and a better fit your cultural context or team-working challenges. Call Bill Cropper on 0429-687 513 to discuss and send us an outline of your needs…
Coaching Better Leaders... Building Better Teams
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