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Facilitation Skills

Gain the skills to help groups and teams achieve their desired results

Facilitation Skills helps participants gain the confidence and skills to work with groups to solve problems, agree direction and plan action in a productive way.

Having the opportunity to practice and facilitate a whole group was invaluable in overcoming challenges and gave me the confidence to apply these skills as soon as I returned to work.

Julie Stoneman, Campaigns Officer, WWF

Benefits to you and your organisation

gain the confidence and skills to help groups generate ideas, solve problems, agree direction and plan action

contract productive relationships with groups

deal with challenges and difficult group behaviours

ensure high levels of participation and creativity in groups

identify and improve your strengths as a facilitator

Core modules

Key structure skills: contracting and groundrules, keeping on track, balancing task and process, group review and learning, evaluation

Creating engagement: structuring sessions, active listening, questioning and summarising skills, building ownership and action

Building: reading group dynamics, building trust, matching different styles and preferences

Selecting the right intervention: ensuring energy and participation, techniques, tips and methodologies, maximising creativity in groups

Handling challenge: identifying and clarifying challenge, challenges directed at you, conflict in groups, dealing with opting out or over energetic participants

Self awareness and personal energy: your strengths and weaknesses, 'anchoring' yourself, maintaining personal energy, self assessment

Learning approaches

You will have the opportunity to facilitate and take part inn small group exercises to practice key skills and approaches. There will be 360-degree feedback from fellow participants on your strengths and areas for development.

Dates	23 - 24 May 2012 31 October - 01 November 2012
Duration	2 days
Cost	£450+VAT
Venue	London
Documentation	Workbook containing all topics covered during the programme.
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	Please contact us if you'd like to discuss your training requirements with our team, or would like more information

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Dates:
23 - 24 May 2012
31 October - 01 November 2012

Cost:
£450+VAT

Venue:
London

Transforming the performance of ethically-driven organisations worldwide

Facilitation Skills

Benefits to you and your organisation

Core modules

Learning approaches

Amnesty International needed a new strategic framework to cope with the different human rights situation globally. We created a tailored strategy map.

Age UK, the major UK charity was the product of a merger. They needed a new approach to income generation and we helped them to shape their new programme.

In need of a country strategy, the Alliance turned to us after they set up a new regional office in Uganda.

The UK government needed some inspiration for new politics, they turned to =mc learning and development for innovation training for senior civil servants.

Increasing global fundraising capacity. We were excited to help the British Council staff in Russia secure a 1 million Euro sponsorship deal!

For Concern, =mc learning & development team provided a global leadership programme for managers and country directors – linked to a multicultural competence framework.

Turning a local authority department into an independent organisation means major change! We supported DGHP to create new ways of working.

Greenpeace International needed advice on innovation to help engage younger people in the environmental agenda – we designed a systematic programme to help with this.

Mind wanted to be more aligned across departments to create a joined-up organisation. =mc consultancy helped them to create a new culture. Our clients We're proud of the clients we work with. Click on the logos below for more information.

The National Trust for Scotland needed a system to prioritise their projects. =mc introduced a special version of the strategy map.

NMSI, the UK’s largest museum cluster (including the Science Museum), asked us to assess their potential for increasing their unrestricted income.

Find out how we helped them to embed innovation as part of NSPCC’s organisational culture through driving forward innovation and knowledge management.

We’re ecstatic to have been awarded a National Training Award in 2008 with Plan International for their blended management learning programme for INGO staff.

=mc’s fundraising team were asked by this international federation – the largest INGO in the world – to help them develop their global fundraising strategy across 198 nations.

Growing a culture of innovation. We designed an innovation framework to help the RNIB achieve culture change and boost income.

We helped Sightsavers develop a new global strategic direction that achieved record levels of engagement across the organisation.

UNICEF UK asked us to help them develop a powerful case for support – follow the story of Our 5 Promises to Children.