Start Date: 14 Sep, 2025
End Date : 18 Sep, 2025
Duration : 5 Days
Overall Description:
The "Facilitation Skills for Trainers" course is designed to empower trainers with the essential skills and techniques needed to effectively guide group discussions, enhance participant engagement, and foster collaborative learning environments. This course combines theoretical insights with practical applications, ensuring that trainers can facilitate training sessions that are dynamic, inclusive, and impactful.
Course Objectives:
- Adapting facilitation techniques for effective delivery in virtual and hybrid settings.
- Leveraging digital tools and platforms to facilitate remote collaboration.
- Facilitator Self-Awareness and Continuous Improvement.
- Developing self-reflection practices to enhance your facilitation skills.
- Strategies for seeking feedback and continuously improving your facilitation capabilities.
- Capstone Project: Designing and Delivering a Facilitated Session.
- Applying the course learnings to plan and execute a comprehensive facilitation session.
- Receiving feedback and peer evaluation on your facilitation performance.
Course Outline (Content):
Introduction to Facilitation:
- Understanding the role and importance of effective facilitation.
- Exploring the key qualities and competencies of skilled facilitators.
Preparing for Effective Facilitation:
- Assessing the purpose, objectives, and stakeholders of the facilitation session.
- Developing a comprehensive facilitation plan and agenda.
Facilitating Group Dynamics:
- Understanding the stages of group development and their facilitation requirements.
- Implementing strategies to foster productive group interactions and participation.
Asking Powerful Questions:
- Crafting open-ended, thought-provoking questions to stimulate discussion and insights.
- Techniques for guiding the group through effective questioning.
Facilitating Consensus and Decision-Making:
- Employing facilitation methods to help the group reach consensus and make decisions.
- Addressing dissent and managing conflicting viewpoints.
Listening and Paraphrasing Skills:
- Developing active listening skills to fully understand the group's perspectives.
- Paraphrasing techniques to ensure shared understanding and alignment.
Facilitating Idea Generation and Brainstorming:
- Applying creative facilitation methods to encourage innovative thinking.
- Guiding the group through brainstorming and ideation processes.
Managing Challenging Behaviors and Situations:
- Identifying and addressing disruptive behaviors and communication challenges.
- Strategies for maintaining control and redirecting the group when necessary.
Visual Facilitation Techniques:
- Incorporating visual aids, diagrams, and graphics to enhance the facilitation process.
- Developing the skills to create and utilize visual facilitation tools.
- Remote and Virtual Facilitation.
Who Should Attend?
- Professionals who need to be able to conduct a training for their assigned SHEM / OMS Element in the company.
- Engineers, Managers, Human Resource Professionals, Team Leaders and all individuals involved in training activities.
- Anyone involved in talent management, Nationalisation programmes, business partnering; skills transfer or on-the-job training.
Course Methodology:
We utilize a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This training course will be conducted as a highly interactive workshop session. A variety of training methodologies will be used Before and during the course whenever applicable. Some of these methods are gamification, online pre-post test, role plays, self-assessment instruments, group exercises & case studies.
