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Facilitation Skills Training Course

Our Facilitation Skills training course is delivered as an online virtual open course. We can also deliver the course in-house just for your business as an in-person course or a live virtual online course.

Facilitation Skills Course Highlights

Here’s some quick information about our Facilitation Skills course:

  • 1-day training course delivered online
  • Delivered anywhere in Ireland as an in-house course
  • Booking is easy. Just select a location, a date and hit Book Now!

Course Overview

Course Aim

This facilitation skills course is designed for you to explore the communication skills and techniques required to successfully facilitate events, workshops and meetings in a business context.

Interactive theory and practical sessions will engage you in a variety of realistic scenarios where you will receive feedback on your approach. From ice breakers and energisers to handling difficult people and situations, this workshop will help you to discover and develop new facilitation skills.

Course Objectives

By attending this Facilitation Skills training course, you will know how to:

  • Develop the skills and confidence to help groups take ownership for generating ideas, solve problems and agree direction and plan actions
  • Contract productive, purposeful relationships with groups
  • Deal with challenges and difficult group behaviours
  • Ensure high levels of participation and creativity in groups
  • Identify and improve your strengths as a facilitator.

Course Content

What is Facilitation?
  • Defining what the process of Facilitation is and when’s it used?
The Facilitator
  • What is the role of the Facilitator?
  • What are the necessary skills and behaviours of an effective Facilitator?
The Skills
  • Effective questioning and a Facilitator
  • Structuring a facilitated meeting
  • Probing to explore new possibilities
  • Listening effectively
The Role
  • Keeping the group motivated and maintaining momentum
  • Clearing blockages
  • Dealing with conflicting members and views
Capturing Ideas
  • Creative ways to capture actions
  • Closing out the meeting
Skills Practice
  • An opportunity to practice the skills.

Download the Course Brochure

Download a copy of our Facilitation Skills training course brochure below.

Download Facilitation Skills Course Brochure

Our Approach

No PowerPoint

Yes, you read that right! We’ve removed PowerPoint from our in-person training courses. Instead we use more creative ways to deliver content and generate discussion.

Always Interactive

No matter how you attend, our courses are interactive and designed specifically for the delivery method being used.

Practical Tools

We minimise theory and focus on practical tools you can take away and use immediately in the workplace.

Clear Pricing

Transparent pricing for open courses and clear all-inclusive quotes for in-house and bespoke work.

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