Advanced Facilitation Skills For Trainers

Moving from the basics to instructional mastery. Ateliers en francais.

• Who should attend
• Key Benefits
• Workshop Objectives
• Course Outline
• Prices

OVERVIEW

You are a competent instructor with strong skills, and now you’re looking for more!  Take your technique to the next level of facilitation.  Develop your awareness and skills in managing the learning environment and facilitating learner-centered activities.  Polish your questioning techniques, building on your current experience with interactive presentation. Gain insight into group dynamics and identify your preferred instructional style. Get plenty of hands-on practice facilitating a session on a training-related topic and increase the knowledge of the group on the particular topic.

Who should attend:

• Instructors who wish to improve their performance in the facilitative aspects of training and have completed FKA’s Instructional Techniques workshop, or equivalent training, in interactive, learner-centered instruction, followed by at least 6 months experience in leader-led instruction.
• Former instructors with the experience described above who are returning to training delivery.

Key Benefits:

• Get your training off to a positive start each and every time.
• Be proactive in managing group dynamics.
• Use credibility to your advantage.
• Adapt your learning style to improve training outcomes.
• Give instructions that everyone can follow.
• Add interest by using a variety of methods to gather group input and debrief activities.
• Take actions that will increase the likelihood of your learners applying their new skills and knowledge back on the job.
• Share both successes and challenges with other experienced instructors.

Workshop Objectives:

• Describe how to create a positive climate for learning.
• Facilitate input from participants.
• Establish and maintain instructor credibility.
• Create good questions to test for understanding.
• Determine how to adapt questioning techniques to affect group dynamics.
• Ask questions more effectively.
• Use questions to increase involvement of all participants.
• Facilitate activities:
  • Give clear instructions for class activities.
  • Choose appropriate debriefing techniques.
  • Facilitate the debriefing of an activity.
• Plan a strategy to manage time.
• Use energizers appropriately.
• Describe group development.
• Determine your preferred instructional style.
• Identify when and how to adapt your instructional style to the training context.
• Identify types of verbal behavior.
• Respond appropriately to participant verbal behavior.
• Handle a variety of difficult situations.
• Give constructive feedback to learners.
• Identify ways to promote training transfer.

Course Outline:

• Plan how to maintain the learning climate.
• Facilitate methods of information gathering.
• Examine tips for the facilitation process.
• Brainstorm ways to gain instructor credibility.
• Discuss skills for giving effective feedback.
• Polish questioning skills and techniques.
• Explore techniques for facilitating effective activities.
• Develop techniques to effectively manage time.
• Review a group dynamics model.
• Identify and adapt your instructional style.
• Recognize and plan responses to participant verbal behaviors.
• Handle challenges in the classroom.
• Examine ways to positively influence training transfer.

Prices:

Three days - $1399