Facilitate with Flair: The Workshop Method Unleashed for Ultimate Impact
About This Course
This advanced-level course covers the following.
Use for The Workshop Method include:
- business meetings,
- community gatherings, or
- organisational planning sessions.
Benefits
- equips groups with the tools to navigate complexity,
- honors the collective intelligence of a group
- promotes meaningful engagement
Results
- enables creative thinking
- achieve sustainable results
What You'll Learn
At its core, The Workshop Method emphasises active participation, dialogue, respect for diverse perspectives, and consensus-building. These processes are designed to unlock creativity, encourage open communication, and foster a sense of ownership among participants.
This course aims to elevate your facilitation excellence through The Workshop Method, creating a safe and respectful space for all voices to be heard by employing a variety of visual and interactive tools. Facilitators trained in The Workshop Method guide groups through a series of structured processes of: brainstorming ideas, clustering-organising, naming ideas, consensus building and reflection to discern and resolve complex situations.
By the end of the programme, participants should be able to:
- Explain the principles and structured process of the Technology of Participation (ToP) Workshop Method.
- Design a Workshop Method process with clear facilitation intent for a workplace context.
- Apply the five procedural steps of the Workshop Method (Context, Brainstorm, Organise, Name, Resolve) to guide groups towards shared understanding and decisions
Entry Requirements
This course is suitable for learners with the following backgrounds;
- HR Professionals and OD Consultants, and who lead process that involve planned change efforts to increase organisation health
- Organisation Leaders, and Managers who want to design and lead process that involve planned interventions to enhance organisational effectiveness
- Learning Facilitators who want to help work teams, project groups, management teams; and who want to become better at diagnosing and facilitating assignments or special purpose meetings. And Adult Educators aspiring to do less of content interventions, more of process facilitation, providing the structure in getting groups to assume responsibility and own their own solutions.