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The Art of Facilitation: Essential Skills for People in Prevention

The Art of Facilitation: Essential Skills for People in Prevention. Part One: Effective Process Facilitation October 2011. Agenda.

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The Art of Facilitation: Essential Skills for People in Prevention

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  1. The Art of Facilitation:Essential Skills for People in Prevention Part One: Effective Process Facilitation October 2011

  2. Agenda This 3-part training series will take place over the course of three consecutive days in short increments. Each day will focus on one part of the facilitative triangle: • Effective process facilitation, • Skillful participant engagement, and • Results-focused design.

  3. Goal To provide helpful information, tips, and techniques essential for group facilitation processes which will thereby: • Foster team building, • Maximize meeting efficiency and effectiveness, and • Tap into the benefits of collective wisdom that can fundamentally enhance the outcomes of community-based prevention efforts.

  4. Learning Objectives At the conclusion of Part One: Effective Process Facilitation, participants will: • Differentiate between the roles and responsibilities of a process facilitator, meeting facilitator, and trainer. • Identify the three dimensions of the facilitator’s triad. • List key skills associated with the first element of the facilitator’s triad, effective process management.

  5. Of Facilitators… A facilitator is someone who uses knowledge of group processesand an understanding of group needs and dynamics to develop and deliver a structure for meeting interactions to be optimally effective.

  6. … and Facilitation • Facilitation is the art and science of managing meetings and group processes. • Effective facilitation involves the use of tools and techniques that guide group members in the contribution of ideas, beliefs, experiences, and expertise in order to achieve a shared outcomethrough collective action.

  7. Many Hats, Many Roles

  8. Many Hats, Many Roles By show of hands, how many of you have experienced any of the following roles? • A. Process Facilitator • B. Meeting Facilitator • C. Trainer or Technical Assistance Provider • D. Facilitative Leader • E. All of the Above • F. None of the Above

  9. Two Types of Facilitation

  10. The Facilitator’s Triad

  11. 7 Skills of a Great Facilitator

  12. Use Mental Anchors and Visual Aids Effectively

  13. 8 Tactics to Manage Group Processes

  14. Staying on the Same Page

  15. Know the Possible Pitfalls

  16. Squashing Conversation Domination

  17. Reflection and Take Away • What are the three methods to check for understanding? • Process, relationships, and results. • Establish outcomes, ground rules, and group management tactics. • Paraphrase, rephrase, and summary. • All of the above. • Both A and C

  18. Reflection and Take Away • What are the three dimensions of the facilitator’s triad? • Facilitation, process, and content. • Process, relationships, results. • Roles, process, and relationships. • None of the above.

  19. Reflection and Take Away • What is an effective method for reducing conversation domination by a meeting participant? • State, “Let’s hear some more thoughts.” • Switch to an inclusion group activity. • Break eye contact and move away. • All of the above (A, B, and C). • A and C only.

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