Overview

Aims of the course:
To allow delegates to make a dramatic leap forward in their ability to facilitate groups.
To allow delegates to make a dramatic difference to the quality of learning taking place in the groups they work with.

What is mastering facilitation?
Facilitation comes from the Latin root ‘facile’ or ‘facere’ meaning, “to make easy”.  Good facilitation involves making interventions that help the group move towards its goal more directly, enjoyably and quickly.  The Master Facilitator is one who can get the best out of individuals and groups in a way that is largely invisible and seemingly effortless. 

Benefits of Attending

As a result of the training delegates will:

• Deliver higher quality training or meetings
• Be able to identify what kind of intervention is most appropriate in a given situation
• Be able to make appropriate interventions skillfully
• Understand how to engage effectively with different groups
• Have a kitbag of facilitation games, tools and techniques
• Have a better understanding of group dynamics and how to affect them

Content Outline

• What is facilitation?
• Down to business
• Frameworks and models
• Interventions – tools and techniques
• an introduction to a range of creative but practical influencing and engagement tools and techniques including Forum Theatre and NLP

About the trainer

 

A leading “arts in business” consultant, coach and NLP practitioner, BY2W’s Paul Miller has designed and delivered skills development and learning programs for business for the last 10 years and has worked with over 100 leading companies.  Clients include: Microsoft, British Airways, British Gymnastics, Zurich Finance, European Air Space and Defence, Dell, Egg, Sky, Dept for Works and Pensions, RBS, Deloitte, Ernst and Young, Sage, Mckinsey, Dell, Ericsson, Diageo, Prudential, BP and Shell.

He has trained and coached at every organisation level, from Senior Management to shop floor.  Most recently, he was on the design and delivery team for a Leadership program that delivered, worldwide, to the top 200 in a major oil company.

As a young man, he was an international gymnast, and after retiring from sport spent 15 years as an actor and storyteller working in theatre, TV, circus and opera.

As well as being a published business writer (he most recently contributed to Brand Engagement – How Employees Make or Break Brands, Buckingham 2007), he has a concurrent career in the arts, writing for BBC radio, TV and for the stage (he has two West End shows to his name).  He is currently Literary Associate to the Queens Theatre, Hornchurch.

The unifying element in all his work is that he brings techniques from the arts (and his imagination) to bear on business issues and people.  Motivating, inspiring and getting the best out of people is his passion and his penchant. 

Registration information

Pricing: £545 per attendee.

 

Internal Comms Hub members and SCM subscribers price: £495.

Please call on +44 (0)208 600 4670 to take advantage of your special discount.

4 Easy ways to register:

1. Register online via the links above
2. Download an order form and fax it back to +44 (0)208 741 9975
3. Call us on +44 (0)208 600 4670
4. e-mail us at skills@melcrum.com