Workshop Facilitation Skills
Upcoming workshop dates: If you’re interested in this workshop, please send us an email.
If there is enough interest, we will set a date.
- Investment: Corporate €1390,00 ex VAT. Self-employed €995,00 ex VAT.
Including study material, catering and loving aftercare (trainers remain available for questions, tips & tricks). - Participants: minimum 8, maximum 14
- Target group:
For everyone who wants to become better at leading meetings within organisations;
both day-to-day meetings and one-offs (strategy meetings, team meetings, etc.). - Learnings:
What well-guided meetings look and feel like, and how to make that happen.
How to facilitate using the three E’s: Effectiveness, Efficiency and Energy.
Would you like to expand your toolkit even further? Take a look at the Workshop Interactive Work Formats.
The workshop is taught by author and experienced facilitator / meeting designer Mike van der Vijver.
Our trainers and coaches are full-time professionals who facilitate meetings themselves as their main activity.
They will share anything (really anything!) they know.
What are we going to do?
Practice, practice and practice yet more. Practicing is the only way you will be able to master facilitation skills.
Get ready for two days that will challenge you and give you lots of energy at the same time!
- Tone, pace and style
Discover your own default style and capitalize on it. Learn from the styles of your fellow participants. - The value of facilitation
Explore the role, tasks and competencies of the meeting facilitator. - Content and process
Learn how to give responsibility for the content to meeting participants while taking responsibility for the meeting process. - Conventions in meetings
Establish a “meeting hygiene” that supports achieving the meeting’s purpose. - Activities
What are typical things meeting participants need to do in meetings?
What approaches are more effective, efficient and energising? - Tools and formats
An overview of formats for typical meeting activities, such as generating ideas or gathering and classifying participants’ opinions. - Difficult participants
Every meeting has them – people whose purpose in life seems to be to ruin your meeting.
How do you deal with them respectfully and effectively? - Non-verbal communication and presence
How do participants perceive you? And how can you influence the dynamics in the meeting room without speaking? - Seating
What is the most effective seating arrangement for the kind of activity your participants need? - Ice-breakers
The sense and nonsense of ice-breakers. - Gamification
Playful formats are increasingly used to present content. You will learn how to find your inner show host. - Tricks of the trade
A long list of small but very important tips and tricks.
In this workshop each participant will facilitate and receive personalized feedback.
In other practice rounds you will take the role of participant and experience first-hand the effect of different facilitation styles.
Everything you learn will also be applicable in hybrid and online settings.
