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Training

How To Lead: Discover the Leader Within You


University of Southeastern Philippines
Davao City
March 14, 2008

what are facilitation skills?


are essential for anyone seeking to guide a group of
people through a process of learning or change in a
way that encourages all members of the group to
participate.

what is a facilitator?
is someone who uses knowledge of group processes to
formulate and deliver the needed goods and services.

the facilitators focus:


Content - substance
Process - dynamics

why do meetings need facilitators?


Varied minds
Varied opinions

Varied thoughts
Varied directions

Needed to produce:
Decisions
Share informations
Plan work
Learn from one another
Create solutions
solve problems

Where does facilitation usually happens?


meetings
Presentations
Discussion groups
Work teams
Informal groups

types of group facilitation skills


Engaging facilitation skills members to be a part of
a group; members to feel included, valued and
connect and interconnect learning's and experiences
to issue at hand;
These involved:
Demonstrating leadership

creating an open environment


Encouraging connections
Building group rapport
Defining group identity
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2. Informing facilitation skills used to provide the


group with information from outside the group and to
help the group learn about itself; content and process
These involved:
Providing information
Soliciting information
Clarifying ideas or concepts
Conceptualizing
Learning from within the group

3. involving facilitation skills encourage positive

interaction and learning between group members;


gaining experience from others.

These involved:
Inviting participation and interaction
Bouncing back to the group
Recognizing commonalities and promoting consensus
Supporting cooperation and group cohesion
Experimenting with new behavior

4. Planning facilitation skills working together to make


specific plans to accomplish as a team; concretizing
such other facilitation skills to form into reality.
These involved:
Brainstorming
Generalizing
Strategizing
Applying
Making specific plans

Techniques to support group facilitation


Checking-in/ round robin
Writing
Using humor
Self disclosing
Surveying/voting
Modeling
Sharing in pairs/small groups
Critiquing / giving feedback
Role playing

Strategies for improving your facilitation skills


identify your own learning style
Consider the diversity of learning styles in your group
Reflect on your strength and weaknesses
Target specific skills for practice
Practice skills in a safe environment
Identify opportunities in your group to improve or try new skills
Ask someone to observe and give your feedback
Observe other leaders
Videotape yourself and evaluate your skill usage

5 most common situations that require interventions during


meetings so as to keep it on track

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side-bar conversations side comments


Staying on time many to tackle in the agenda
Never ending discussions
Conflict: personal attacks
Returning from breaks

Clues on intervention
Start always with the very diplomatic way of solving the
situation.
Then to moderate
Then to stick..
Just be objective, rational and logical
Clash on ideas not on personalities

Lets practice
Divide the group into two:
- One conducting a meeting
- one doing a buzz session

Thank you!

Aristeo C. Salapa
Faculty
University of Southeastern Philippines
College of Governance, Business and
Economics
Davao City, Philippines

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