Facilitation for Impact
Facilitation is a superpower that can unlock your ability to quickly make decisions, innovate and build team culture. Knowing when and how to bring people together - both online and offline - is key to being a great manager, leader, team member.
In this interactive online training series you’ll learn the essential skills to improve your facilitation to deliver the impact you want, whether that’s generating new ideas, making an important decision or bonding a team together.
You'll embed learning through a blend of videos, audio, reading and interactive exercises. You’ll leave with a range of practical tools, templates and handouts that you can dip into whenever you need. Plus, gain the confidence to adapt your style and plans to both online and offline facilitation as well unexpected events!
How do I sign up?Modules covering the breadth and depth of facilitation
The six modules of the course will help you explore the big questions about facilitation and how it applies to your work, as well as the nuts and bolts of developing your skills and finding the right tools.
3) Getting Interactive
- How to respond to rather than control your participants.
- How to use interactivity to deliver your outcomes.
- When and how to run online and offline sessions.
- Inclusive facilitation.
4) Ending Well
- How to make sure the meeting sticks.
- Evaluation and feedback.
- Preparing for action.
1) Introduction
- Exploring "what is facilitation?"
- How and when to bring people together.
- Facilitation as a mindset.
- Your role as facilitator.
2) Starting Well
- Our favourite
framework to help you plan and share your sessions. - Using check-ins, icebreakers, creative warm-ups and team builders (with downloadable activities).
5) Agile Ceremonies
- Principles of working in an agile way and what they mean for facilitators.
- Leading great agile workshops e.g. sprint planning, sprint check-ins, daily stand-ups, reflection sessions.
6) Summary
- Recap all learning.
- Reflect on your progress and further development.
- Commit to putting your learning into practice.
About your trainers
Every module will be led by either Eleanor Gibson or Lianne Howard-Dace. Together, we have taught these skills to hundreds of people and have adapted the content to both online and offline facilitation. We’ll reveal everything we’ve learned about being exceptional facilitators.
This course is a collaboration between Tilt and the Supporter Experience Collective.
