We are once again offering our popular facilitation workshop! It is directed at managers, trainers, aspiring or practicing facilitators, Human Resource Consultants and others who are interested in learning more about facilitation. The workshop will strengthen your facilitation competence and your confidence regarding your work with groups.
Would you like to expand your leadership repertoire with the skill of facilitation? Are you regularly required to facilitate meetings and workshops? Would you like to be able to recognise group processes better? Would you like to know and practice how to facilitate in a sensitive, competent and target-oriented way?
In our facilitation workshop, you will gain a deeper understanding of facilitation, get to know a variety of facilitation tools, and apply facilitative methods to achieve intended results. You will develop your own facilitation competence as well as your individual ‘facilitation style’.
A group can be more than the sum of its individuals – however it can also be much less! In order to achieve the ‘more than the sum’, we offer ideas, methods, exercises to discover your own facilitation style.
Facilitation is more than ‘delivering a workshop’, it is more than leading a group of people through a meeting, and certainly more than a new form of training. Facilitators lead and guide processes that get groups to a specific result. This means setting up process effectively, holding processes professionally, leading through difficult situations, balancing different personalities within a group, all while keeping the intended outcome in mind.
Workshop content
Our two-day workshop covers the following topics:
- Contracting: setting up facilitated processes to be effective
- Understanding different types of facilitation and their application
- What it takes to facilitate: holding a group and process professionally
- Facilitating to get to a result: different levels of facilitator involvement
- The facilitation process: planning and implementing facilitation
- Facilitation techniques: creative methods to achieve results
- Dealing with challenges in facilitation
The workshop consists of a mix of theoretical input, facilitation exercises with feedback and self-reflection.
To ensure the highest opportunity for learning and practical application, the number of participants is limited to 10.
Course Details
Date: 22nd and 23rd April 2010, 9 am until 5 pm
Location: Little Stream Conference Venue, Constantia
Cost: R 1.995 incl. VAT (includes tea/ coffee/ muffins, excludes lunch)
Facilitators
Judith Haupt is a facilitator and consultant of CONTRACT South Africa. She worked as a trainer, facilitator and consultant in Germany before returning to South Africa in 2007. Judith has been developing and facilitating management and leadership seminars in Europe and South Africa – her clients in South Africa include Mercedes Benz, the UCT Graduate School of Business, Raymond Ackerman Academy, Shuttleworth Foundation and Old Mutual. She has also facilitated numerous team development and organisational development processes in the profit- and non-profit sector.
Mignon Lotz, the founder of PEERPOWER, is an experienced strategic facilitator with 10 years planning and process experience, eight years of business related facilitation experience and four years of coaching training. She spent five years in IT related project facilitation, specialising in defining large projects and working with project teams to align and focus them. She grew into facilitating strategy processes in the corporate environment and has worked with The Cape Argus Cycle Tour, Vodacom, Metropolitan and Old Mutual. For the last 7 years Mignon has worked with Entrepreneurs and has been running her own company for 6 years.
To find out more about the workshop, or secure your place, call Judith on 021 4097043 or send us an email!