Learn the art of facilitating with presence and overview

On the FACILITATION SKILLS course, you will get concrete and directly usable tools, methods and techniques to ensure progress, focus and value creation. You will learn how to keep participants on track, handle conflicts and difficult behaviour, excite participants, ensure involvement and commitment, support effective result creation, visualize processes, give crystal clear instructions and much, much more.

As a facilitator, you will get a concrete framework for your meetings and workshops. You will learn how to ensure that the participants use, share and utilize each other’s creative potential, thereby creating better results, decisions and solutions.

At the same time, you will improve your own ability to understand other people, their behavior in groups and, above all, improve your ability to communicate with people in different collaborative situations.

You will get professional training and experiences in using a complete and coherent framework for involving and engaging meetings and workshops. It will help you to create better results through clear goals, clear commitment, increased involvement of the participants and greater value creation through the interactions of the participants, increased knowledge sharing and ensuring ownership.

The FACILITATION SKILLS course contains all the tools you will need as a facilitator and meeting leader.

Understanding Facilitation

• The role of facilitator and the hybrid role of content-contributing facilitator
• Understand the facilitator’s mindset and working methods
• Preparation before the workshop/meeting
• Structured preparation, planning and design of workshops/meetings
• Precise goal and clear deliverables
• Crystal clear invitations to meetings/workshops, to endure clear expectations, abiity to be prepared and high level of motivation right from the start

Facilitation of the workshop/meeting

• Get started – Set the scene and involve the participants early
• Learn how to establish and maintain a safe and productive working environment
• Provide crystal clear instructions, and use involving and engaging tools
• Enable participant co-creation
• Learn to use precise and inspiring tools for dialogue, idea generation, prioritization, collaborative decisions and clear action plans
• Use posters and other visual aids
• Keep participants on track – advanced communicative structures to manage behavior and difficult situations
• Ensure common understanding, support and ownership for decisions, conclusions and results
• Short and action oriented minutes of meeting. Learn to write short and precise minutes, which are approved directly at the meeting/workshop
• End the workshop/meeting in a professional and action-oriented manner
• Tips and tricks for digital meetings

Value creation after the workshop/meeting

• Ensure and support implementation – Learn how to ensure progress, follow-up and value creation after the workshop/meeting

In short, you will learn everything you need to plan, facilitate and follow up your good meetings and workshops, where the participants are active, involved and take ownership for the results they have created.

Price

The course price is 9.800 DKK, excluding VAT.

This price includes the 2 days of training, as well as course materials and all catering: breakfast, lunch, afternoon cake, fruit, coffee, tea, juice, soda and water.

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You get a precise, concrete and easy to use manual

We know that it can be difficult to remember everything you learn on a course when you come back to the workplace again after the course. Therefore, we have created a concrete, precise and easy to use FACILITATION SKILLS manual, which helps you to put what you have learned into play in your everyday life after your participation in the course.

You will be given the manual on the course, and it is a real manual for precise facilitation in real situations, it is not just a printout of slides. Of course, we use the manual actively on the course and in the exercises, so that you know the manual and are comfortable using the many techniques in practice.

The manual is your guide to precise and value-creating facilitation. The manual is full of concrete suggestions and inspiration for what exactly you can choose to say and do in different situations. All tools, methods and techniques from the course are thoroughly described in the manual, so that you have a concrete and useful guide, that will help you when you facilitate sessions after the course.

Tools and methods are also visually illustrated for better understanding and direct application in your professional worklife after the course. You can use the manual as an important and reassuring support tool for many years after you have attended the course.

The course is perfect for

The target group for the course is everyone who facilitates meetings and workshops and wants increased ownership, involvement and co-creation.

Typical participants on the course are

• Meeting leaders who want to learn how to facilitate
• Managers who want increased involvement
• Internal or external consultant who wants a bigger toolbox
• Key employees who have a large number of contactpoints in the company
• Teachers who want greater involvement and commitment in their teaching
• Self-made facilitators, who want professional training and a better toolbox
• Anyone who works with other people to create results together

Your facilitator: Peter Grumstrup

Peter Grumstrup
Certified Professional Facilitator & Certified Trainer

Peter has solid professional and international experience. He holds a master degree in civil engineering and has worked for 13 years as a project manager, management consultant and product manager at Novo Nordisk and Ericsson. Since 2001, Peter has worked as a professional business facilitator, with a focus on facilitating value-creating workshops and processes in companies and authorities, as well as training and certifying professional business facilitators.

Peter has trained more than 8,500 facilitators, and held presentations and seminars on facilitation, presence and personal impact for more than 4,500 managers and employees. Peter has trained and certified facilitators in many countries, primarily in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.

In addition to being one of the most experienced facilitators and trainers in Denmark, Peter’s strength is a deep understanding of facilitation as a professional discipline, excellent communications skills, an infectious good mood, and an ability to translate complicated topics and concepts into concrete and directly applicable methods and tools , which creates value for you as a participant in the course.

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