Helping Teams Make Collaborative Decisions - Virtual

We often assume that facilitation means creating the agenda, take notes and following up on the action items. Yet, we often then experience common challenges such as the team being unable to make a decision together, frusterating behaviors in meetings, lack of participation, etc. For any leader, a key skill set is learning how to help bring people together to deliver value, without taking ownership. Bringing people together goes beyond getting consensus, instead getting to collaboration means tapping into the knowledge and wisdom of the entire team.

Helping Teams Make Collaborative Decisions is centered on building faciliation skills for leaders. Throughout the course, you will use hands-on, engaging exercises to learn and expand your knowledge. We will explore how to have challenging conversations, confront and resolve conflicts, deal with impediments, address real facilitation challenges, and uncover what drives you and your team for long-term wins.

Who should attend?

Anyone who can benefit from the course is welcome to attend, including: leaders, managers, ScrumMasters, agile coaches, product owners, product managers, facilitators, agile team members, and others in the organization who are looking to level up their skills.

Is this course certified?

This two day course is certified by the Agile Academy as Agile Facilitation Level 1 after completing an online 30 question exam.

What to expect?

We take training and learning seriously and take your decision to spend time advancing your skills and improving yourself seriously. As such, we use the latest training approaches and techniques, and bring energy and fun, to ensure you have the best possible experience and learn as much as possible.

• Brain-based training to dramatically increase learning and retention
• Expect to be challenged and look at ways you need to change to help others improve
• Opportunities throughout the course to focus on your real-world situations
• Advanced skills and techniques to deal with challenges you are facing
• In-depth engagement with your instructors and fellow attendees.
• Interactive, fun, and experiential learning -- increasing safety and retention

Learning Topics:

To provide students with a solid understanding of facilitation essentials. Participants will learn how to design, deliver, and follow up on productive collaborative events while maintaining content neutrality and fostering group engagement.

1. Understanding the Definition of Facilitation:

2. The Facilitator Mindset and Role:

3. The Facilitation Process – From Design to Follow-Up:

4. Conducting Assessments Prior to Facilitation:

5. Determining the Desired Purpose of an Event:

6. Building Effective Facilitation Guides:

7. Conducting Facilitation:

8. Following Up After an Event:

Key Activities:

• Explore real-world facilitation examples
• Build Several Facilitation Guides
• Facilitation Simulation

Course Facilitator

Tricia Broderick is a leadership and organizational advisor. Her transformational leadership at all levels of an organization, ignites growth of leaders and high performing teams to deliver quality outcomes. Tricia has more than twenty years of experience in the software development industry. She is a highly-rated trainer, coach, facilitator and motivational keynote speaker. Beyond her extensive knowledge and skills, her biggest offering is inspiring people to believe anything is possible. Her aim is to create connections and environments that challenge and support people in an authentic, vulnerable, engaging and fun way. In 2020, she founded Ignite Insight & Innovation.

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