Leveling Up Your Facilitation Skills
Group process facilitation skills are a key capability for collaborative, multidisciplinary teams. As a leader in a local facilitation community, I often hear the following question from new members: 'How do I improve my skills?' In this session you’ll learn how to assess yourself against a core competencies framework, as well as how to create a personal development plan for leveling up your facilitation skills. In addition, I’ll provide some concrete suggestions on how to improve both on your own and as part of a community of practice.
Outline/Structure of the Talk
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The E Shaped Profile
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What We Talk About, When We Talk About Facilitation
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Competency Framework for Facilitators
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Self Assessing / Getting Feedback From Others
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Creating a Development Plan
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Opportunities to Practice
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Finding a Community of Practice
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Successful Patterns in Community Learning
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Practicing as a Group
Learning Outcome
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Understand the six core competencies for professional facilitators.
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Know how to self assess against the framework and create a personal development plan.
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Provide two new ideas on where you can practice facilitation skills.
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List two existing facilitation communities of practice.
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Know three patterns in community learning.
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Describe a process for practicing facilitation skills in a community of practice.
Target Audience
All who have an interest in developing their facilitation skills.
