Advanced Facilitation Skills For Trainers

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

• Who should attend
• Six Key Benefits
• Workshop Objectives
• Content Outline
• Prices

OVERVIEW

If you are a competent and experienced instructor who wants to take your skills to the next level, this workshop is designed for you! Learn facilitation skills that will maximize learner engagement and retention during your programs and increase transfer of their new skill and knowledge back to the job. Develop facilitation techniques to effectively manage group dynamics and the learning environment. Discover your preferred instructional style and learn how to adapt it. Polish and adapt your questioning techniques as you lead a practice lesson and receive feedback and coaching from your FKA instructor.

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.

Six Key Benefits:

1. Create a positive learning environment for all your learning initiatives.
2. Gain the respect of your learners by establishing and maintaining your credibility.
3. Add new instructional techniques to your repertoire that will keep your learners engaged.
4. Adapt your instructional style to improve learning outcomes.
5. Use your knowledge of group dynamics and group development to manage learner participation and prevent problem situations.
6. Maximize transfer of learning back to the job.

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 effectively.
• 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 actions to increase training transfer.

Content Outline:

• Establishing a Positive Learning Environment
• Effective Course Introductions
• Facilitating Learner Input Activities
• Facilitation Language
• Instructor Credibility
• Using Questions Effectively
• Facilitating Activities
• Managing the Learning Environment
• Group Dynamics
• Adapting to Group Development
• Learning and Training Styles
• Recognizing Types of Verbal Behavior
• Resolving Learner Behavior Problems
• Maximizing Training Transfer
• Effective Closings

Practice Lessons

• Learners each present one practice lesson

References

• Checklist
• Tips for Establishing Instructor Credibility
• Presentation and Application Methods
• Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Tips for Giving Feedback
• Stages of Group Development
• Learning Style Inventory / Training Style Inventory
• Types of Verbal Behavior
• Strategies for Dealing with Difficult Situations
• Feedback Forms
• Transfer Strategies
• Lesson Outline Template
• Training Preparation Checklists
• Systematic Learning Process Checklist
• Guidelines for Media Use and Design

Prices:

Three days - $1599