Advanced Facilitation Skills Training

Having advanced facilitation skills is essential for you to be able to create positive and effective interactions combined with accurate and timely decision-making. This in-depth, 2-day course will prepare you to handle most facilitation tasks and includes specific techniques and tools that allow participants to become excellent facilitators in both training and non-training environments.

The PD Training Advanced Facilitation Skills Training course is designed to develop a deeper understanding of facilitation such as group preparation, managing perspectives, building agreements, defining roles and other skills which allow professional facilitators to interact as required in any situation.

This highly valuable and dynamic training course is now available throughout Australia, including Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, and Perth.

Please click on the Public Class tab below to view our Advanced Facilitation Skills Training course schedule by city or click the In-House Training tab to receive a free quote for courses delivered at your preferred location.
  
Facilitation Skills Training Course

Your Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, participants will have learned to:

  • Understand the phases of complex facilitation
  • Understand how to respond to personal styles in a group
  • Use convergent and divergent thinking tools to promote discussion and decision making
  • Apply decision-making rules to reach agreement
  • Successfully deal with emotional challenges
  • Know when to intervene in a group
  • Understand group think and how to avoid or overcome it
  • Facilitate strategic planning sessions
  • Facilitate process improvement sessions

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Plus the workshops are always tailored to your current context

"I know I put a lot of 10's for the trainer. Shane really was remarkable."

Envista Pty Ltd

 

"Would like to commend Jo for his professionalism and for the quality of his teaching and experience, I felt there were one or two more opportunities for him to use a facilitation approach over a teaching approach but overall a good mixture of the two styles with lots of real life tangible examples and demonstrations. Would have been great for me to have one more go at practicing facilitation myself so that I could have a chance to immediately put in place the corrective feedback I was given, because learning by doing is my preferred style. Overall loved the balance of theory and relevance to my own work. I can already see how I will put in place what I have learnt and feel equipped with a huge toolkit of advanced techniques. Would and will certainly recommend this to colleagues and peers. Please feel free to use any of my comments as testimonials."

- Course Participant

 

"A very enjoyable course, Eric (Trainer) was knowledgeable, engaging and clearly had a passion for the subject material. Would recommend to others."

- Infrastructure Finance and Advisory, ACT Government

 

"It was a very personalised training and I very much appreciated James' experiences in his previous work life which gave real life examples to the training. The training expanded on my previous facilitation experiences but also gave me new skills and insights into reading people which is what I really wanted. I will recommend PD Training to my colleagues when others are seeking similar training especially if James is facilitating!"

- Department of State Development

 

"I thought Josh was excellent at demonstrating engaging and dynamic facilitation...overall, it was very engaging and the Inspire-Educate-Experience-Debrief model was great."

- The National Disability Insurance Agency

 

"The training was fantastic - Karen was inspiring. She was patient and took the time to ensure everyone understood the concepts explained. thank you."

- RDNS

 

"Loved the course, would definitely recommend it."

- PEPSICO

 

"Joseph was a brilliant trainer and made a big effort to structure the training around our requirements. First time that I've experienced true tailoring of a program to my needs."

- Individual Course Participant

 

The training was well facilitated. The trainer was successful in gaining a lot of responses from the participants to create the relevant information. A lot of pair, group work and interaction was there.

- Department of Education

 

"Highly targeted (and therefore valuable) training given that there were only two delegates - Josh managed superbly to balance our individual requirements."

- Parks Victoria

 

"It was an absolute pleasure meeting and being inspired by Josh. I have already recommended this course to other staff and told them to request Josh as the trainer. Thanks."

- Parliament of Victoria - Information Technology Unit

 

"Overall, the course was fantastic. Derrick was a fantastic facilitator/trainer and the small class size (4 including the trainer) allowed for much in-depth discussion of issues and sharing of experiences. A couple more opportunities to practice what we had learnt would have been good, but the opportunity to have the in-depth discussions was so very valuable. Derrick was great at getting us to reflect on our own practices in teaching the course components and to prompt us to discuss our reflections. Thanks!"

- Individual Course Participant

 

"Louise had a very warm and welcoming style that connected us all and created an open and engaging learning environment. The course was very enjoyable and provided opportunities to learn from other participants in addition to Louise.

- City of Melville

 

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Derik was polite, fun and very diplomatic. A great role model for any presenter.

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Review of the forming / norming stages of group development was informative and a nice reminder to something I had forgotten - Personality types and psychometric tests are always a good reminder of we all have different personalities and different strengths - I enjoyed the active learning (get off my backside) parts of the course

-UnitingCare Community
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Throughout the 2 days the trainer was always letting us know what he was doing and whay he was doing it. I appreciated this as it was not just told to us but modelled to us. I believe the trainers attitudes and beliefs were congruent with his behaviour, he did not seem fake, and was quite genuine. I appreciated how the training brought together a lot of different models and consolidated a lot of theories so it was not all so "scattered" for me.

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Was good to revisit this topic. Enjoyable two days.

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Skill development in group facilitation is essential for performing expertly in various scenarios. During this deep dive training course in advanced facilitation skills, participants learn to distinguish facilitation from instruction and training, establish ground rules, develop individual facilitation techniques, give effective feedback, understand the stages of team development and much more.

This dynamic, 2-day training course is the fastest way to develop advanced skills in effective group facilitation, so that your organisational goals can be reached on time, every time. 

Course Outline for Advanced Facilitation Skills Training

After completing this course, participants will have learned to:

Topic 1

The Trusted Conductor

  • A Framework for Facilitating with Complexity
  • Group Capacities
  • REACH Review, understand your strengths, recognise other people's styles and needs.
  • Assessing and Convening
  • Reflection

Topic 2

Divergent Thinking

  • Listing Ideas - Brainstorming
  • Small Group Work
  • Individual Writing
  • Gap Analysis
  • Reflection

Topic 3

Convergent Thinking

  • Affinity Diagram
  • Pre-Defined Criteria
  • Straw Votes
  • Gap Analysis
  • Paradigm Shifting
  • Paradigm Shifting Techniques
  • Critical Reasoning
  • Reflection

Topic 4

Arriving at a Decision

  • Decision Rules
  • Decision Rules and High Stakes Decisions
  • Scales of Agreement
  • Reflection

Topic 5

People Management Strategies

  • When and How to Intervene
  • Groupthink
  • Reflection

Topic 6

Facilitating Specific Processes

  • Strategic Planning
  • Process Improvement
  • Force Field Analysis
  • Reflection

Topic 7

Reflections

  • Create an Action Plan
  • References

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If you’re not happy with the outcomes from
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No one left behind
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12-months access to the unique REACH Future Proofing Personal Development Dashboard with personally curated learning to develop agility to adapt to different people tasks and situations.

Learn Advanced Facilitation Skills Training Now

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What are people going to do differently?

At the completion of training participants are encouraged to create an action plan, and invite an accountability buddy via their Orgmenta App.

In your Training Management Centre you have transparency to the action plans so you can see what people are going to do differently.

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Our systems and people make it easy to identify how you’ll be able to measure impacts and then report on the success in the weeks or months after training.

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Details:

  • Small classes, average 5 people, max 16
  • Lunch and refreshments included
  • Certificate of Completion (always available in the App)
  • Comprehensive courseware available in the App
  • Pay on Invoice or by Credit Card

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2-day course

Education Development Centre, 4 Milner Street Adelaide SA 5007

$1540.00

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Karstens Conference Centre, Level 24, 215 Adelaide St Brisbane QLD 4000

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Level 2, 21 Mary Street Brisbane QLD 4000

$1540.00

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Canberra Flex, 4 National Circuit Canberra ACT 2600

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Karstens Conference Centre, 123 Queen Street Melbourne VIC 3000

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Course Outline for Advanced Facilitation Skills Training

After completing this course, participants will have learned to:

Topic 1

The Trusted Conductor

  • A Framework for Facilitating with Complexity
  • Group Capacities
  • REACH Review, understand your strengths, recognise other people's styles and needs.
  • Assessing and Convening
  • Reflection

Topic 2

Divergent Thinking

  • Listing Ideas - Brainstorming
  • Small Group Work
  • Individual Writing
  • Gap Analysis
  • Reflection

Topic 3

Convergent Thinking

  • Affinity Diagram
  • Pre-Defined Criteria
  • Straw Votes
  • Gap Analysis
  • Paradigm Shifting
  • Paradigm Shifting Techniques
  • Critical Reasoning
  • Reflection

Topic 4

Arriving at a Decision

  • Decision Rules
  • Decision Rules and High Stakes Decisions
  • Scales of Agreement
  • Reflection

Topic 5

People Management Strategies

  • When and How to Intervene
  • Groupthink
  • Reflection

Topic 6

Facilitating Specific Processes

  • Strategic Planning
  • Process Improvement
  • Force Field Analysis
  • Reflection

Topic 7

Reflections

  • Create an Action Plan
  • References

When you book a Public Class with PD Training you can expect:

To Be Engaged All Day

Activities and discussion for engaged learning all day.

An outstanding trainer

On average PDT trainers have 15 years industry experience and 7 years training experience.

Focussed on you

We always tailor activities and scenarios to be relevant to you.

Refresher Course $0

In-House and Public Class participants are welcome to join a public class in the same topic for 12 months.

Acclaimed Provider

The confidence of booking with an acclaimed multi-national training company.

Multi-modal Reinforcement

Support, reinforcement & extension eLearning and videos in the App.

Outstanding learning that people can do in the flow of work

  • Fresh targeted video-based microlearning content with interactive lessons and quizzes included.
  • Rigourous review process
  • Only $11.00 per course per person per year
  • Or get the $110.00 bundle and save
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