2010-2011 Series Schedule
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2010 - 2011 Facilitator Workshop Series Registration

This option includes attendance to all 10 workshops of this series and the closing celebration luncheon for one low price. You build a notebook of material for the Series. If you miss a session you can get the materials at the next session.

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Facilitating Generationally
Margarita Rozenfeld

Chances are, the groups you’re facilitating these days are multi-generational.  Is your facilitation tool kit up to date to deal with this newest dimension of diversity?  In this interactive, educational workshop you will learn:

• Characteristics, traits and needs of each of the four generations in the workplace
• Differences and similarities in the four generations’ preferences and needs
• Options for approaching group facilitation for specific generation-dominant as well as generationally diverse groups

October 22 2010

Leadership Presence: Trust Building Behaviors that Provide Results
Judy Rogers

In both our personal and professional worlds, trust impacts everything and can make all the difference. Have you ever lost the trust of a significant client, friend, or family member and wondered how to repair it? What is your ‘credibility quotient’ and how does it impact your work with clients or leading new initiatives?

Facilitating Public Input Processes

Stephanie Kavanaugh 

Most organizations and government agencies have good intentions with respect to involving the public in their decisions - but good intentions alone do not result in good public participation! And good intentions are no defense against a public that is up in arms on an issue. This workshop will outline the major principles of public participation, including the most common pitfalls that derail many processes, how to avoid them, and a step-wise planning process for successful public involvement.

Workshop participants will increase their knowledge of the basic principles of public participation and gain the skills necessary to provide basic public involvement planning, preparation, facilitation, and evaluation for clients.

Present to Motivate

John Lesko, CPF 

• Leave with a better understanding of your strengths and shortcomings as presenters or public speakers.
• Create a professional development plan designed specifically to enhance the communication skills of facilitators who must have ‘stage presence’ in front of their clients.
• Have an opportunity to practice your impromptu speaking skills and receive constructive feedback from your peers.
• Receive selected informational material from Toastmasters International.

Facilitating Creative Problem Solving Sessions

Bill Olsen, CPF 

Brainstorming is… ho-hum. It’s often done poorly and that’s only half of the real tool… Creative Problem Solving (CPS). Managers and work teams already know how to do normal meetings, normal discussion and “normal problem solving”. They call facilitators when problems are so demanding, or the issues, urgency or team dynamics are so complex, they require creativity. Hence, they need creative problem solving.   CPS will springboard your skills with a creative, masterful jolt you’ll apply for your customers’ success. Learn and apply the real CPS, from the place that gave birth to Brainstorming, Ideation, WIIFM, Diverge-Converge and more. 

Facilitating the DMAIC Process Improvement Methodology of Lean Six Sigma

Dana Roberts 

Participants will learn about the Lean Six Sigma (LSS) process improvement methodology called the Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) process by engaging in an exercise both as the simulated workforce of a service process and as the process improvement team using DMAIC to improve the simulated service process. In addition, participants will experience a facilitative methodology for helping an inexperienced process improvement team to learn and apply the DMAIC methodology.

Contracting Consulting Skills: Get Your Expertise Used

David Coleman 

Contracting Consulting Skills; Get Your Expertise Used

You will learn basic to more advanced client contracting skills starting with your opening dialogue to the final agreement with your client as you negotiate your expectations and theirs to guide you toward a more effectivefacilitative event.   This presentation will follow the principles of Peter Block who says, “The consultant’s lack of direct control and authority is what makes our task difficult and at times drives us crazy.” 

Emotional Intelligence

Halilly Azulay 

Warren Bennis, renowned leadership pioneer, author and researcher, said: “In the fields I have studied, emotional intelligence is much more powerful than IQ in determining who emerges as a leader. IQ is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional Intelligence can.” Effective facilitators develop a range of emotional intelligence competencies, can assess situations intuitively, make sound choices about what is most needed by individuals and the group in a multitude of situations, and then deliver. Discover how you can leverage emotional awareness as a powerful tool for improving your interactions in facilitation and beyond.

Facilitating the 5 Dysfunctions Methodology

Dawn Rhine, CPF & Cynthia Miller, CPF

Patrick Linconi asserts, “Teamwork remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.”

 In this workshop, facilitators will experience a foundation of understanding of Over Coming Five Dysfunctions of a Team and implement some of the concepts by participating in recommended activities from the Five Dysfunctions teambuilding program. After completing this session, participants will be able to describe basic principles of the Five Dysfunctions of a Team and be equipped with exercises to use in their own teambuilding practices using the Five Dysfunctions teachings.

Facilitator as Designer: Practical Tools to Accelerate Group Development
Lonnie Weiss and Nancy Aronson

We all know that groups develop through stages. But what can we, as facilitators, do to help a group mature from forming to high performing? The presenters have found that if you attend carefully to design, group dynamics largely take care of themselves. This workshop introduces eight core principles that allow you to be exquisitely intentional about designing meetings that help groups mature and operate collaboratively, without dependence on the facilitator. You will experience specific activities for the beginning, middle and culmination of meetings. Together we will explore the nuances of the role of facilitator as designer. 

Year End Series Completion Celebration
 

Following the final workshop of this Series we will gather to have lunch and celebrate the completion of our 17th year of workshops. We will recognize individual participants, speakers and the top participant-rated workshops of the Series. We liberally pass out discounts for the next Workshop Series and door prizes worth hundreds of dollars. Good food, good friends, good fun, and great door prizes! Can you think of a better way to spend an afternoon?