Course overview
This facilitation training course looks at principles, values and techniques for dynamic, participatory and experiential facilitation. There will be opportunities to apply the tools and techniques and practice facilitation yourselves.
Participants will develop their skills in planning and preparing one-day sessions, meeting the needs of participants through a range of participatory facilitation techniques for varied and stimulating meetings and problem-solving. Dealing with challenges and challenging behaviour will also be addressed.
What you'll learn
By the end of the workshop, you will have learnt tools and techniques to help you develop your own effective facilitation style. You will understand how to motivate different people, how to facilitate productive discussion, and reach agreement on action.
You will have developed your skills in supporting participants to think clearly and creatively, and work together productively.
Study method
- In-class
- Online
- Blended
Locations
- England
- London
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Duration study load
- 1 day
Pathways
- Impactful presentations: two-day masterclass
- Developing your personal brand
- Powerful communication skills for leaders
Who's it for?
This facilitation skills course is for anyone who needs to facilitate discussion including team leaders, project managers and those who want to add to their communication skills.
The centre works with people from all sectors including the public sector, voluntary sector, corporate sector and private sector.
We also offer bespoke group training for 3-12 individuals from one organisation. If you would like to explore this option, please get in touch for a quote.
Subjects
A facilitator is a coordinator, leader, thinker, negotiator, timekeeper, recorder, referee, and neutral observer. This facilitation course will help you develop the skills to take on these different roles.
- planning
- listening
- questioning
- balancing
- negotiating
- timekeeping
- clarifying
- including and involving
- stretching and challenging participants
- ensuring that problems are identified and dealt with
- synthesising
- recording
About Itec Skills and Employment
Itec has been a leading provider of work-based learning programmes for 40 years. As part of the ongoing strategy to place our people at the centre of the business and preserve the company as an independent organisation, Itec Training Solutions Holdings Limited became an employee-owned company in February 2019. We are proud to be the first Welsh independent training provider to become employee-owned, with 100% of the business now owned by our employee-owners.
We are one of the largest and most vocationally diverse work-based learning providers. In Wales holding Welsh Government contracts to deliver Apprenticeships and Jobs Growth Wales Plus (JGW+). In England we hold ESFA contracts to deliver Apprenticeships.
In 2014, we acquired The Centre for Strategy and Communication to support the strategic goal to diversify the business, offering commercial training to individuals and employers throughout the UK and worldwide. In 2021 we merged our Company’s (Itec Training Solutions Limited and Centre for Strategy and Communication), this merger was to enable the business to align and strengthen our brand.
Every day we transform people’s lives by helping them believe in themselves, become more motivated, helping them find employment, progress their careers, acquire new qualifications and skills, or set up in business. We support high-growth organisations to innovate and grow. Helping organisations in the private, public, and charity sectors to support priority and high-growth sectors to achieve their outcomes.
Our ethos is simple. We help individuals start and progress their careers by matching their skills with those of local employers. We ensure our programmes are meaningful, effective, valued, and sustainable to both individuals and employers.
