This "hands on" training provides manager's and meeting leaders a collection of basic proficiencies and techniques needed to conduct quality meetings. The subject includes meeting planning, climate setting, specific techniques to "unstick" groups, handling non-productive and disruptive behavior and using group behavior management strategies for productive results.

Making Verbal Communications Work

Basic Facilitator Training
With today's challenge of "do more with less," it is imperative that time spent in meetings yield a high return on the investment of time and money. This course is designed to provide the manager, team, leader, or team participant with the basic skills to introduce a proven process that will ensure a more productive meeting experience.

Advanced Facilitator Training
The prerequisite to this course is the "Basic Facilitation training Course" or equivalent experience. The course addresses the subjects contained in the basic course in expanded and greater depth. Additional dimensions of the facilitator role will be examined as well as the behavioral traits of the ideal facilitator as compared to the behavioral traits of the participants.

Facilitation Certification Training
This is an advanced course for facilitators. It is for those persons who have had facilitation experience/training. The basic skills and processes will be quickly reviewed. The course addresses facilitation skills and tools in depth. The facilitators role will be examined as well as the behavioral traits of the ideal facilitator and the behavioral traits of the participants. The session includes an actual meeting facilitation experience and an extensive debriefing session following that experience.