FoCuSeD™ Facilitative Skills | Class Abstract | 1 day PDF Print E-mail

Trainer: Gary Rush, IAF CPF


Gary Rush’s 1-day highly interactive class teaches “how to” with an understanding of the "why" to use facilitation skills and specific tools to improve communication to achieve support and commitment. This class covers People skills that develop effective facilitation skills to supplement your job skills. This class is ideal for all people. It helps build your professional skills and confidence. It develops Collaborative Leaders.

 

Why? What separates successful collaborators from others are effective facilitation skills. Because – One of the most important skills needed in collaboration is the ability to bring people together to accomplish a task and being able to manage people and conflict to achieve support and commitment. How? Gary believes that theory is needed and teaches it to provide a background. He teaches specific "how to” and provides practice (40% of the class time) to allow development of what was learned enabling attendees to use the skills immediately upon returning to work.

 

PDUs

 PMI-R.E.P. - This class confers 8 Professional Development Units (PDUs) upon completion to those attendees who are a certified Project Management Professional (PMP)®.
PMP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

 

This class is available on-site anywhere in the world. Please contact Gary for additional information, pricing, and scheduling.


 

Class Abstract


Duration

One (1) Day

 

Abstract

This class teaches "how to" with an understanding of the "why" to use facilitation skills and specific tools to improve communication to achieve support and commitment.

 

  • It gives you effective interpersonal and presentation skills.
  • It builds your skills and confidence to become successful collaborators.
  • It provides facilitation tools to improve communication, support, and commitment.
  • It develops effective facilitation skills to successfully run meetings and turn "problem" people into productive contributors.
  • It develops effective Active Listening skills.

Objectives

FoCuSeD™ Facilitative Skills is designed so that the students will be able to:

 

  • Turn “problem” people into productive contributors.
  • Develop effective facilitation skills to supplement their job skills.
  • Begin developing a tool kit of immediately usable tools to more successfully deal with team members and stakeholders.
  • Improve interpersonal and presentation skills.
  • Take back strategies for how to use effective facilitation skills upon returning to work and overcome resistance in your new role.

Materials

Each student receives:

 

  • FoCuSeD™ Facilitative Skills by Gary Rush, IAF CPF
  • Class Certificate of Completion.

 

Class Agenda


  • Introductions
    • Class Exercise
  • Set the Context
  • Basic Facilitation Skills
    • Class Exercise
  • Difficult People
  • Facilitation Tools
    • Class Exercise
  • How Facilitation Skills benefit your organization
    • Class Exercise
  • Review and Wrap Up

 

 

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