Draw Out The Best From Your People
The ability to effectively facilitate a meeting, brainstorm, or planning session is a core skill for a truly versatile leader.  Unfortunately, many leaders never acquire the subtle and varied skills of a facilitator – making collaboration and meaningful discussions more difficult. 

A strong facilitator plays a crucial role in the corporate workspace.  In this training, participants learn the techniques and methods of great facilitators. 

A skilled facilitator knows how to:

• Establish the appropriate environment for open dialogue
• Ensure input and collaboration
• Challenge ideas without stifling creativity
• Provide needed pace, structure and organization
• Move toward agreement and common ground

This program assists participants in:

• Creating an open environment for a free-flowing exchange of ideas
• Bringing forward fresh, creative and useful solutions
• Ensuring a balanced and open dialogue; inhibiting dominators
  or biases from taking over the process
• Making certain all participants are able to contribute and build on ideas
• Leading a process where ideas are explored and thoroughly expanded;
  defying the conventional; challenging assumptions
• Providing focus tools to ultimately bring forward convergent thinking and agreement
• Ensuring that meetings stay focused on the main challenges and objectives
  and don’t get sidetracked by tangential issues
• Periodically checking to see where agreement or support is building
• Ensuring all parties understand what was agreed to
  and what are the appropriate next steps  
• Changing formats and team dynamics to keep the group engaged
• Maintaining pace and energy in the process