Facilitation Skills
Date |
Thursday 17th March 2011 |
Time |
10am - 4pm |
Venue |
Mabel Booth Room, Bradford CVS |
| Trainer | Tony Mann, Resource Strategic Change Facilitators |
| Cost | £60 Voluntary and Community Organisations, £120 Statutory Organisations |
We now work in a more co-operative, empowered environment in which those leading volunteer services and organisations must involve and draw on the expertise and experience of different individuals, harness people's enthusiasm and scepticism and increasingly manage relationships with stakeholders. Consequently, they need to adopt a facilitative approach for much of the time.
In this practical one day Workshop, Tony Mann, the author of two books on Facilitation, will introduce you to 'Facilitation as the management style' for those in the voluntary sector. He will show you an exceptional facilitation approach, which focuses on 'outcomes' and 'deliverables'. Tony will demonstrate a range of techniques, which will give you some new 'tools' to tackle problems and find creative solutions. You will see for your self how facilitation can be used and begin to recognise the power of this approach.
He will convince you that facilitation can deliver results and use the expertise and input of groups of people in a participative and engaging way.
Outline of the day
The benefit of using a facilitative approach to achieving objectives
- Recognising uncertainty and its disabling effect on the way we work
- Understanding the power of facilitator as a management and leadership style
- Examining the nature of facilitation
- The key skills of an effective facilitative manager/specialist
- Stages of organisational and group maturity - from 'functional' to 'process-aware'
- Practising creative thinking and process techniques
The benefits of attending:
- Learn the concepts of effective facilitation
- Understand why organisations/teams and groups fail to deliver and how facilitation can change that
- Learn some effective techniques for tackling tasks and achieving remarkable results
- Developing listening and intervention techniques
- Learning how to use and apply different tools and techniques
Who should attend? Many organisations in the voluntary sector are now recognising that the most appropriate style of management, in an environment where engaging stakeholders and maximising volunteer input, is a facilitative one. This Workshop will benefit anyone who thinks that they or their organisation needs to act in a facilitative way, towards each other, stakeholders and partners.
Delivered by Tony Mann of Resource Strategic Change Facilitators. Tony is a leading facilitator working at an international level. He has been operating in the field of facilitation, change, and team development for 15 years, with clients in the public, private and not for profit sectors.
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