Resource Strategic Facilitation

STAGE TWO – ADVANCED FACILITATION SKILLS
PART 2 - ‘Real Live Tasks’

Objectives: provide potential Facilitators with the skills and knowledge to help groups explore new ideas and identify ways forward in complex and uncertain environments.
The workshop will examine:

Creating the process to 'manage' uncertainty

Developing ‘process aware’ groups

Using Process skills, models, tools and techniques to make meetings and events more effective

The Resource model of Facilitation means the Facilitator being responsible for designing the format to help groups tackle complex tasks. Delegates will learn to use the Process Iceberg® to manage this. They will be introduced to and use the Facilitator’s Group Matrix ™ to establish the correct ‘contract’ with the group. In addition they will learn when to use the different tools and techniques and how to improvise and 'invent' other techniques.

Individuals will facilitate ‘real-live’ tasks and take responsibility for designing the format, adapting it to meet the changing situation and at the end help the group to review its success.

Individuals will receive feedback on their own Facilitation Profile.

Designed for: Facilitators, change agents and specialists who are involved, or likely to be involved in providing guidance and assistance to groups dealing with operational matters and whose role will be to help improve the productivity of multi-functional/agency such groups in tackling ‘real live’ issues.

Outcomes: As a result of participating in the workshop they will be able to:

Understand how to compensate for an imbalance of different team roles

Recognise the different stages of team growth and know what help is required

Set a "contract" each time you work with a team

Work with groups and help them with process issues

Handle multiple inputs in a group situation and enable groups to perform more effectively in the future

Understand the art of managing ‘uncertainty’ and be able to help others in that situation

Apply a range of creative thinking and process techniques at the appropriate time

Know more clearly whether they would like to undertake the responsibilities of a Facilitator

Recognise whether they have the aptitude to Facilitate groups in uncertainty

Recognise the characteristics of a Facilitator and their own particular style

Have practiced being in the role

Duration: The workshop will be two days in duration (the number of delegates is limited to a maximum of eight) and there will be opportunities to facilitate 'live' issues. Participants must have previously attended the Stage One Workshop and the Stage Two Knowing Myself …Understanding Others Workshop

Workshop Structure
This Workshop enables individuals to begin to assess their commitment to becoming a facilitator and where they can apply the skills. The Workshop focuses on practicing the skills learnt in the previous two workshops, using 'real' tasks/issues. The participants experience either being a facilitator or a task leader. After each task there is a thorough debrief both of the experience of the group and the experience of the facilitator and task leader. Key lessons are brought out, which give the potential facilitators a deep understanding of the 'power' of the role and the process.

Participants learn from 'doing' or watching - there is no compulsion to be 'the' facilitator (some people learn more by watching others in the early stages of gaining new skills). They can assess their practical learning on a later occasion.

Those that decide to be ‘assessed’ can achieve the ‘Endorsed’ status from the ILM

Cost:
The cost of participating in this learning experience is in two parts: the cost of the Programme and the accreditation (through the ILM)

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