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Consensus Consulting Group can help business leadership and team leaders facilitate meetings reaching consensus through effective management tools such as brainstorming, storyboarding, and other group processes. Consensus Consulting Group can help business leadership and team leaders facilitate meetings reaching consensus through effective management tools such as brainstorming, storyboarding, and other group processes.

TITLE: “Facilitation Skills”

SUB-TITLE: “Facilitating Meetings with a Disciplined Approach…that Doesn’t Feel Disciplined!”

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Participants will learn to:

  • Interpret and manage the dynamics of a group process (meeting), and overcome apprehensions about leading.

  • Apply a StoryBoard ‘template’ to facilitate the meeting process.

  • Engage participants in the meeting process, and solicit and capture the best thinking of the group.

  • Forge the group’s best thinking into a consensus on what the issues are, and what to do about them.

  • Adjourn a meeting having secured buy-in from the group, and their commitment to executable action plans.

DESCRIPTION:
This course is appropriate for anyone who needs to periodically stand in front of a working group, identify issues in need of attention, develop consensus on what those issues are, and secure the commitment of the group to support actionable plans for addressing the issues. The techniques for facilitation presented in this course are applicable to any environment…business, church groups, civic/service organizations, trade/professional groups, social clubs, boards of directors, etc… The course includes a workbook (approximately 50 pages in length) for note-taking and reference. The format of the course is based upon:

  • Informal Lecture with Participation by Attendees

  • Support by PowerPoint Slide Presentation

  • Ample Time for Questions, Answers, and Working Examples

Three principal benefits one could expect to result from participating are:

  1. Develop capability to stand confidently before a working group and facilitate a productive meeting.

  2. Learn to use a meeting facilitation tool that taps into the collective wisdom, vision, and energy of the group.

  3. Acquire the fundamentals of leading a group to consensus in a non-threatening, productive way.

There are no requirements or prerequisites for participation in the workshop.

Workshop Syllabus

Workshop Objective Provide participants with a fundamental understanding of StoryBoarding conventions and practice, so that they can confidently and successfully conduct their own meetings, using StoryBoarding as a tool.

Workshop Format
(Compressed Session, 6–8 Hours)

 

 • Informal Lecture with Participation by Attendees
• Supported by PowerPoint Presentation
• Ample Time Allowed for Q/A
• Workbook of Presentation Slides and Forms Provided

Workshop Format
(Full Session, 16 Hours)

 

 • Integrates a Working Example into the Session Above
• Uses a Real StoryBoard to Conduct a “Meeting”
• Topic is the Workshop and Participants’ Objectives
• Uses Role-Playing by Participants
 
Topics Covered "Take-Away" From Each Topic
About “Good” Meetings How to know if one has experienced (or planned, or conducted) a “good” meeting, or a “bad” meeting.
The Cost of Failing to Reach Consensus Reaching “consensus” doesn’t mean, “caving in”.  If the group leaves the room without buy-in…there will be a real cost.
What Happens in a Meeting?  A group must go through several stages in a meeting, in order to process information and act on it.
Best Meeting Practices and StoryBoarding StoryBoarding embodies virtually all the most effective meeting practices in a single, workable format.
Specific StoryBoard Applications Where to apply StoryBoarding to meet one’s own business, civic, or personal leadership needs.
Roles in the Meeting and Preparation Certain roles must be played in a meeting to assure the most successful outcomes, and advance preparation is critical.
General Rules of Conduct in Meetings Certain behaviors can boost the effectiveness of any meeting.
The Importance of the Meeting Environment It is critical that disruption be minimized, while maintaining an atmosphere that ‘feels’ unconstrained.
The StoryBoard Template Using the StoryBoard ‘template’ requires a comprehensive understanding of the layout of the StoryBoard and the significance of the various cards and card color-codes.
Cost-Effectiveness Good meeting facilitation will more than pay for itself.
Case Study – Developing a Business Plan It is easy to capture the outcomes of a StoryBoard meeting in a hard-copy format…for distribution and archives.
Tips on Conducting the Meeting Practical tips on conducting one’s own StoryBoard-based meetings.
Some Lighter Options Team-building bells and whistles that can help to lighten-up the atmosphere of the meeting.
StoryBoard Example
(Full Session Only)		 A participative exercise that will showcase the unique capability of the StoryBoard method to turn the spontaneity and unpredictability of a meeting into productive outcomes.

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