Facilitative Leadership: Techniques to Engage, Empower and Influence Teams
About This Course
This is a 1-day foundation-to-intermediate level course, designed for emerging and existing managers who want to lead with greater impact in today’s fast-changing and collaborative work environments.
The course focuses on developing facilitation practices that help leaders engage teams meaningfully, encourage idea sharing, and co-create solutions.
Participants will learn how to ask purposeful questions, surface unspoken perspectives, foster inclusive dialogue, and guide teams through sense-making and decision-making processes.
These leadership practices are critical for enabling psychological safety, navigating complexity, and building team commitment—skills highly valued across industries. Whether you're stepping into leadership or seeking to strengthen your influence, this course equips you with facilitation habits that support better conversations, clearer insights, and more empowered teams, enabling you to lead easily in a positive and empowered high-performance team culture.
What You'll Learn
• Facilitation of brainstorming discussions to generate and refine work-related ideas
• Selection and application of questioning techniques to drive insight and engagement
• Integration of differing views for consensus building
• Use of metaphors, analogies, and reframing to shift perspectives
• Evaluation and prioritisation of ideas using visual tools
• Encouragement of psychological safety and team responsiveness
• Identification of hidden assumptions and mental models in team dialogue
• Structured decision-making and synthesis for team action
Entry Requirements
Participants should be able to read, write, and speak English at a basic proficiency level.