1. Leadership in tough times
This workshop may be three to eight days, depending on the topics selected.
Themes include:
Generating collaboration – facilitation skills for leadership
Listening for leadership
Improvisation – creativity, spontaneity and strategy
Doing change
Harnessing difference – conflict and diversity
2. Leading groups – basic facilitation skills
Things every senior manager needs to know
Is your common experience of meetings boredom and time wasting? Do you and your colleagues often seem to work at cross-purposes?
We can help you make your time count: leading dynamic discussions, influencing and inspiring groups, making conflict work for you, getting great results.
Attend our two-day course in Leading Groups. Build your capacity to:
Run purposeful meetings, clarify expectations, use techniques that fit your purpose
Find out why facilitation is such a valuable skill?
Know how to make the fundamental distinction between Content and process – what is the meeting about and how is it being conducted
Enrich your ability to engage participants
Make conflict work for you – develop a robust approach to healthy conflict
Build dialogue between participants – find and expand the common ground
Engage participants – spirited interaction and robust conversation
3. Leading groups – advanced facilitation skills
This is an opportunity for people with some facilitation experience to hone your skills and build your confidence. The course is designed to improve your ability to get results from your client groups.
The course will cover topics such as:
Session design and planning – designing for purpose, closing the
distance between the client’s expectations and the reality of the
group, using techniques that fit your higher purpose
Enriching your experiential techniques – improvisation,
kinaesthetic activity, storylines
Dealing with difficult people – power in groups
Know what to do when the agenda goes pear-shaped
Asking good questions – complex, provocative, high quality prompts
Proactive engagement with your client and participants – testing
assumptions, fine tuning the agenda
Decision making tools
4. Managing change
This workshop is a strong and straightforward introduction to managing change. It will address such topics as:
Why do most of us hate change
Failure is common – how do we avoid it
Doing the analysis – driving forces and reluctant stakeholders
Skills for managing change – communication, participation
The steps to successful change
Evaluating success