Goals
This course will prepare you to:
- Learn how to facilitate meetings to realize the ideal state of meetings.
- Aware of the ideal state of meetings and provide learners the basic knowledge of facilitation skills.
Audience
- Executives and above
Content
- Introduction
- What is a meeting?
- Variations of meetings
- What is a successful meeting?
- What is facilitation?
- Role of a facilitator
- Who needs facilitation skills?
- Phases of a meeting
- Meeting PDS cycle
- Basic steps of a meeting
- Divergent thinking
- Convergent thinking
- Three points for a better discussion
- Goal setting
- Types of questions
- Two points for a meeting plan
- Purpose of a meeting
- Providing context for the issue
- Tools
- Whiteboard
- Microsoft whiteboard
- Facilitating with the whiteboard
- Sticky notes
- Flip chart
- Bell
- Use models to summarize ideas
