Developing Engaging Facilitation Skills

This programme has been designed to give internal facilitators the required skills and confidence to be able to deliver highly effective workshops.

Objectives of this programme: Participants will learn the following:-

• The basics of good training and facilitation
• How to use the nurturing coaching methodology effectively
• The techniques of accelerated learning and how to apply them to learning challenges
• How to power up energy and maximise personal impact
• How to use graphic facilitation techniques to enhance the learning experience

Preparation: All participants will complete the following:-

• My Facebook personal introduction
• 360 degree feedback survey for a Engaging Facilitator
• Prepare 3 icebreakers / energisers

Organisation:

·         The room layout will be just chairs set up in a half circle

·         A flip charts stand in each corner of the room

·         Plenty of flipchart paper and good colour markers

Overview of training:

·         Day 1 – Learn the basics of good training and facilitating

·         Day 2 – Practice delivering training

·         Day 3 – Raise the bar! How to become an amazing trainer!

NOTE: Participants will be asked to run energisers and icebreakers throughout the three days at the beginning of sessions.

  

The detailed storyboard of how we will do this:-

Timing	Story
DAY 1	Learn the basics of good training and facilitating
09:00	Setting the scene: Workshop leader to introduce himself and explain the workshop covering objectives and how it will be run. Set out the rules for the day and cover off the admin side. Explain how to get the most from the next three days, including how to take notes and that they will become great facilitators by continuing to Reflect & Learn and hand out the A6 notebooks and get them going right away.
09:30	Personal introductions: Each participant will have 5 minutes to introduce themselves on their tables using the ‘My Facebook’ that they prepared as part of the pre-work. Then get them, on each table, to pick a coaching buddy and let them go off in pairs to have coffee together.
11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:30	Nurturing Coaching – 1 This session will start with a 30 minute theory session on Coaching and an explanation on how the group will practice. This is a buddy coaching session Each person will be given their buddy’s 360 report  They will be given time to prepare the coaching session following the guidance from the theory session  Then they coach one another by feeding back the results of the survey and using GROW in the process
13:00	LUNCH
14:00	Nurturing Coaching – 2 Complete the practice sessions and run a summary session to capture the learning.
14:40	The basics of training & facilitating Check out the know-how of the group – Break into groups and brainstorm all the aspects of your training ability.
15:30	COFFEE BREAK
16:00	The basics of good training & facilitating This session will cover all aspects of training and facilitating, from the start, during the session and after. If possible it would be good to include Video Arts ‘You’ll Soon Get the Hang of It’ as part of this session.
17:00	Preparation for day 2 The group will be broken into pairs or threes (ideally not in coaching pairs) and they will be handed their assignments for the next day. It will be explained that the whole of the next day will be run by the participants to give them real experience of training and facilitating.
17:30	END
DAY 2	Practice delivering training
08:30	Learning review Carry out a review to ensure that participants have understood what was covered on the previous day.
09:00	Advice on how to prepare This will be a recap of the basics of good training and facilitating, but in the context of their assignments.
09:30	Preparation for delivery They will have 90 minutes to prepare their learning session, which will include getting the material, room layout, props, timings etc …the whole story.
11:00	COFFEE BREAK
11:30	Optimise your personal IMPACT – Explain that they will be judged by what they do in the 1st minute of their contact with their participants. Explain how messages are communicated through words, tonality and body language and which parts impact the most. Give them 5 minutes to prepare a 1 minute introduction to their training session, and then get each person to present for ONLY 1 MINUTE. Have a short wrap up at the end to summarise the key messages.
12:00	Practice session 1 Each practice session will follow the following structure:- ·         Provide a short overview of how the session will be run ·         Run the session ·         Get feedback from the participants ·         Capture the learning.
13:00	LUNCH
14:00	Practice session 2
15:00	Practice session 3
16:00	COFFEE BREAK
16:30	Practice session 4
17:30	Practice session 5
18:30	END
Day 3	Raise the bar! How to become an amazing facilitator!
09:00	Learning review
09:30	How your brain works This session will explain in layman’s term how the brain works building on the recent research that has come out of the study of the human brain.
10:30	COFFEE BREAK
11:00	VAK This covers how to use the senses in order to maximise the learning experience.
12:00	Graphic Facilitation This session builds on the previous two sessions and provides a means of applying the learning. Graphic facilitation covers giant mind maps, learning maps, pictures to seed ideas, and turning a simple flipchart into learning art.
13:00	LUNCH
14:00	100 day learning This session explains the post workshop action learning that will take place, together with the remote coaching and how that will be delivered. If possible it will also include a session on how to use the Release the Magic Virtual Learning Environment which if used will provide the community meeting point for the participants.
15:00	Action planning This is possibly the most important part of the workshop – the detailed action planning. Each participant will take 20 minute to complete their action planner, then the remaining hour will be devoted to buddy coaching sessions in which they will challenge their buddy’s plans and make sure there is a very high commitment for whatever they finally agree to do. Final wrap up session.
16:30	END