This workshop equips facilitators with the principles and processes needed to effectively guide team meetings and processes (e.g., decision making, brainstorming, etc.).

Role of the Facilitator
Meeting facilitators must assume a myriad of roles from helping the team to maintain focus to helping it get “unstuck.” Participants will identify these roles and discover the principles of performing each role effectively.

Dealing with Challenges
In this workshop, facilitators will discover creative processes for balancing the process and the task, facilitation and participation, and managing group dynamics.

Dealing with Problem People
Here we’ll explore effective strategies for handling disruptive people, late arrivals, chronic objectors, ramblers, dominators, and other types of behavior that sidetrack meeting effectiveness.

How to Tap Into the Collective IQ of the Group
We will share proven processes to help you help the groups you facilitate mine gold in their collaborative efforts. Brainstorming principles, Nominal Group Techniques, storyboarding, and priority setting are examples of such processes.