An Overview

What follows are trainer notes for 3 days worth of training to develop facilitator competence. Many people have responsibilities to train others internally, or they offer facilitation training as an external consultant. The training is designed to be taught by highly experienced facilitators. The target audience is beginning and intermediate facilitators even though experienced, more advanced facilitators might benefit from participating in the training.

Day One facilitation training focuses on preparing for a facilitation event. Day One also includes exercises to “sell” the benefits of facilitation to the more pessimistic travelers, who are fed up with meetings and think of most of them as “Groupthink.” Considerable focus is placed ...

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