Simply Facilitating is a highly hands-on two day workshop that gives the group powerful tools to ensure an engaging meeting or conference and physical practise in dealing with sensitive issues or difficult audiences.
Issues covered include:
Before the Day
- Know your audience, objective and environment
- Choose the agenda
- Brief the participants and contributors
- Plan your opening
Tools of Engagement
- Create engagement using relevant tools for
- Identifying issues
- Analysing those issues
- Generating creative solutions
- Choosing the best fit solution.
On the Day
- Deliver naturally
- Facilitate the flow and the people
- Improise transitions, outtakes, recap and conclusion
- Handle difficult questions and difficult people.
'Simply Chairing' is an abridged version of 'Simply Facilitating' for those involved in running more internal team meeting than stakeholder conferences. It combines a long-established proven planning methodology with some powerul tools for dealing with difficult subjects and participants.
Before the Day
- Research & preparation to ensure focus and structure;
- Pre-meeting communication to ensure clarity and engagement;
- Planning the meeting set-up to ensure a clear confident start that builds rapport while creating direction.
On the Day
- Knowing when and how to open up the discussion vs when and how to narrow the discussion towards conclusions and actions;
- Techniques to encourage quierer personalities, while managing very strong personalities, to ensure equal participation;
- Creating clear tangible outtakes and way forward.