Advanced Facilitation Skills Training

Having advanced facilitation skills is essential for you to be able to create positive and effective interactions combined with accurate and timely decision-making. This in-depth, 2-day course in New Zealand will prepare you to handle most facilitation tasks and includes specific techniques and tools that allows managers to become excellent facilitators in both training and non-training environments.

The PD Training Advanced Facilitation Skills Training course is designed to develop a deeper understanding of facilitation such as group preparation, managing perspectives, building agreements, defining roles and other skills which allow professional facilitators to interact as required in any situation.

This highly valuable and dynamic training course is now available throughout New Zealand, including Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

Please click on the Public Class tab below to view our Advanced Facilitation Skills Training course schedule by city or click the In-House Training tab to receive a free quote for courses delivered at your preferred location.

Facilitation Skills Training Course

Your Learning Outcomes

This dynamic training course is the fastest way to develop skills in effective facilitation, so that goals can be reached on time, every time.

After completing this course, participants will have learned to:

  • Distinguish facilitation from instruction and training
  • Identify the competencies linked to effective small group facilitation
  • Understand the difference between content and process
  • Understand the stages of team development and ways to help teams through each stage
  • Use common process tools to make meetings easier and more productive
  • Define your role in facilitating
  • Establish ground rules
  • Develop content and process
  • Deal with controversial issues and divergent perspectives
  • Develop communication skills
  • Find for common ground
  • Use common facilitation techniques
  • Give effective feedback
  • Understand facilitation vocabulary
  • Deal with difficult people and situations
  • Build sustainable agreements
  • Understand the stages of team development
  • Use analysis tools

PDT Training specialise in:

Live Online

Face-to-Face

Hybrid

Plus the workshops are always tailored to your current context

Plus you’ll also receive:

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If you’re not happy with the outcomes from
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12-months access to the unique REACH Future Proofing Personal Development Dashboard with personally curated learning to develop agility to adapt to different people tasks and situations.

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Skill development in facilitation is essential for performing expertly in New Zealand. During this 2-Day, deep dive training course in facilitation skills, participants learn to distinguish facilitation from instruction and training, establish ground rules, develop facilitation techniques, give effective feedback, understand the stages of team development and much more.

Facilitation Skills Training Course

Course Outline for Advanced Facilitation Skills Training

After completing this course, participants will have learned to:

Topic 1

The Trusted Conductor

  • A Framework for Facilitating with Complexity
  • Group Capacities
  • REACH Review, understand your strengths, recognise other people's styles and needs.
  • Assessing and Convening
  • Reflection

Topic 2

Divergent Thinking

  • Listing Ideas - Brainstorming
  • Small Group Work
  • Individual Writing
  • Gap Analysis
  • Reflection

Topic 3

Convergent Thinking

  • Affinity Diagram
  • Pre-Defined Criteria
  • Straw Votes
  • Gap Analysis
  • Paradigm Shifting
  • Paradigm Shifting Techniques
  • Critical Reasoning
  • Reflection

Topic 4

Arriving at a Decision

  • Decision Rules
  • Decision Rules and High Stakes Decisions
  • Scales of Agreement
  • Reflection

Topic 5

People Management Strategies

  • When and How to Intervene
  • Groupthink
  • Reflection

Topic 6

Facilitating Specific Processes

  • Strategic Planning
  • Process Improvement
  • Force Field Analysis
  • Reflection

Topic 7

Reflections

  • Create an Action Plan
  • References

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Plus you’ll also receive:

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Money Back
Guarantee

If you’re not happy with the outcomes from
the course we offer a money back guarantee

profiles

REACH
Profiles

For every participant
valued at $199 each

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Sick Day
Safety Net

No one left behind
with our 1/2 price re-run promise

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Development
Dashboard

12-months access to the unique REACH Future Proofing Personal Development Dashboard with personally curated learning to develop agility to adapt to different people tasks and situations.

Learn Advanced Facilitation Skills Training Now

We create training that meets your needs.

1-hour Motivator

3-hour Power Sessions

Full Day Training

Conferences & Summits

  • OFFSITE
  • AT YOUR WORKPLACE
  • ONLINE

We’ll make things easier so you can focus on adding more value

We take care of all of the details, so you don’t have to:

  • Invite people to
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  • Sign
    In Sheet
  • Generate Branded
    Course Flyers
  • PDF’S of
    Certificates
  • Collects and
    Reports Feedback
  • Complete Results
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What are people going to do differently?

At the completion of training participants are encouraged to create an action plan, and invite an accountability buddy via their Orgmenta App.

In your Training Management Centre you have transparency to the action plans so you can see what people are going to do differently.

Want to get clear on impacts and measure success? We support you.

Our systems and people make it easy to identify how you’ll be able to measure impacts and then report on the success in the weeks or months after training.

Do you already have a training management system and wish they were automatically up to date?

It’s surprisingly easy to make it so that your system can automatically be up to date with all the training record details you need.

More than just a training provider - we are your learning and development partner.

We look forward to working with you, talk to one of our friendly expert consultants today.
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Details:

  • Small classes, average 5 people, max 16
  • Certificate of Completion (always available in the App)
  • Comprehensive courseware available in the App

Questions:

Auckland

2-day course

Karstens, Tower 1, Level 4, 205 Queen Street Auckland NZ 1010

$1500.00

24 September

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Christchurch

2-day course

Lumify, 13 Stanley Street, Sydenham Christchurch NZ 8240

$1500.00

24 September

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Wellington

2-day course

Lumify, JacksonStone House, , Level 8, 11 Hunter Street Wellington NZ 6141

$1500.00

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Course Outline for Advanced Facilitation Skills Training

After completing this course, participants will have learned to:

Topic 1

The Trusted Conductor

  • A Framework for Facilitating with Complexity
  • Group Capacities
  • REACH Review, understand your strengths, recognise other people's styles and needs.
  • Assessing and Convening
  • Reflection

Topic 2

Divergent Thinking

  • Listing Ideas - Brainstorming
  • Small Group Work
  • Individual Writing
  • Gap Analysis
  • Reflection

Topic 3

Convergent Thinking

  • Affinity Diagram
  • Pre-Defined Criteria
  • Straw Votes
  • Gap Analysis
  • Paradigm Shifting
  • Paradigm Shifting Techniques
  • Critical Reasoning
  • Reflection

Topic 4

Arriving at a Decision

  • Decision Rules
  • Decision Rules and High Stakes Decisions
  • Scales of Agreement
  • Reflection

Topic 5

People Management Strategies

  • When and How to Intervene
  • Groupthink
  • Reflection

Topic 6

Facilitating Specific Processes

  • Strategic Planning
  • Process Improvement
  • Force Field Analysis
  • Reflection

Topic 7

Reflections

  • Create an Action Plan
  • References

When you book a Public Class with PD Training you can expect:

To Be Engaged All Day

Activities and discussion for engaged learning all day.

An outstanding trainer

On average PDT trainers have 15 years industry experience and 7 years training experience.

Focussed on you

We always tailor activities and scenarios to be relevant to you.

Refresher Course $0

In-House and Public Class participants are welcome to join a public class in the same topic for 12 months.

Acclaimed Provider

The confidence of booking with an acclaimed multi-national training company.

Multi-modal Reinforcement

Support, reinforcement & extension eLearning and videos in the App.

Outstanding learning that people can do in the flow of work

  • Fresh targeted video-based microlearning content with interactive lessons and quizzes included.
  • Rigourous review process
  • Only $11.00 per course per person per year
  • Or get the $110.00 bundle and save
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