de Bono's Focus on Facilitation™

Introduction

The need for Facilitation skills is higher than ever as companies search for specialists who are professionally trained to effectively manage team interactions. However, very few are skilled to deliver the required outcomes, resulting in £000's of cost, through time wasted and missed opportunities running ineffective meetings.

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However, there is now a solution to this common problem, with Dr Edward de Bono's Focus on Facilitation, which has been designed to develop expert facilitators, trained to work with your employees to resolve your toughest business challenges and achieve new results.

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Workshop Overview

This instructor-led workshop teaches practical tools, requires multiple, coached facilitation practices. It includes many useful resources to support you in applying your new techniques, including:

Complete facilitator handbook (we call it the facilitator's bible!)
Exercise book to collect all the tips you get and thinking you do during the workshop
Facilitation cards to "deal" yourself a visual map of the agenda you're planning
Table mats that engage your meeting participants in tracking group progress
Slide rules so participants can easily call to mind the steps in the de Bono thinking methods
Capture cards for writing, sorting, and assessing ideas generated
Energy dots to indicate top priority ideas and to measure buy-in on decisions made

Workshop Benefits

Dr Edward de Bono's Focus on Facilitation^TM gives you the techniques to:

Engage employees or any group of people in meeting
Help accomplish much more, before, during and after attending meetings
Become more effective planning and facilitating meetings

Workshop Objectives

Focus on Facilitation^TM is one of Dr Edward de Bono's latest workshops. Adopted by a variety of organisations, the principle or key objectives for the workshop include the development of teamworking, problem solving and idea generation. The tools learned and practiced throughout the workshop will ensure you leave as the expert facilitator.

Workshop Outline

This new workshop shows you how to combine tools from all the core de Bono tools (Lateral Thinking^TM, Six Thinking Hats® and Direct Attention Thinking Tools^TM (DATT), and Simplicity) to become an expert facilitator for any kind of meeting. Get employees engaged and help them accomplish much more - before, during, and after attending the new kind of meetings you will plan and facilitate for them.

The workshop includes a mix of teaching and practical exercises. Participants will work in small groups with continual support from the trainer, who has been certified by Dr de Bono to deliver the course. Each delegate is supplied with a comprehensive workbook to provide ongoing reinforcement of the techniques learnt. With the proficiency gained from this course, you'll have complete confidence in your ability to work with groups as an expert de Bono facilitator. Participants will show up prepared and will contribute fully when you employ all your new tools and techniques. They will rave about your meetings and the results that come from them.

Who should attend?

The workshop is designed for all business people who wish to improve team-working, hold more productive meetings, generate new ideas and solve problems faster.