FAST Facilitative Advanced Leadership Training

Experienced facilitators who have taken formal facilitator training (preferably our professional-level course) and have facilitated six or more workshops.

The three-day training session will review, refine, and enhance the facilitation and workshop-structuring skills of the experienced session leader. The students will spend approximately one-third of their time with new content and tools, one-third in participatory demonstration and discussion, and one-third in exercises and practice sessions.

OBJECTIVES

The advanced training is designed so that the students will be able to:

Adapt real-life learnings from gathering requirements
Enhance agenda-building skills for part-day meetings
Expand virtual and tele-video/presence leadership skills
Improve ability to help groups agree and prioritize
Lead groups to make higher-quality and measurable decisions
Learn and apply new tools for meetings and workshops
Practice "HOW TO" tools for managing conflict and confronting issues
TOPICS

Breakthrough and innovation tools
Change management framework and suggestions
Decision-making tools
Executing your strategy—facilitative strategy mapping
Graphics and visual display—expanding their use
Hip-pocket tool deployment
Interactive feedback from student challenges
Scenario planning and temporal shift through multiple SWOT analysis
COURSE OUTLINE

Advanced material on virtual meetings including video meetings
Advanced practice sessions and personalized evaluation/ feedback
Building approaches—starting with the "end" in mind and holarchy review
Getting groups to decide (ie, finessing extreme personality problems)
Graphic display of information
Personalized review
Preparation—deciding on prioritization approach
Risk-reward of approach options (ie, comparison and application of decision making and innovation tools)
Student exchange of facilitation struggles and advanced class expectations