Great Groups Part 2: More Facilitation Skills for Working With People

Not sure how to handle challenging situations in a meeting? How to encourage commitment and participation among participants?

Are you in meetings with groups or coalitions and working toward a common goal?

Trying to support a team to get the most out of their work together?

Looking to build greater confidence in your general group management skills?

This interactive workshop builds on CAP 108 , Great Groups, and is designed to continue demystifying basic group and meeting management processes. Come to a workshop for program staff, volunteers and board members in the non-profit sector designed to support you and your agency to:

• Get more out of your meetings
• Work effectively with coalitions to set and achieve collective goals, and
• Decide when to lead and when to facilitate

Participants Will Learn:

• How to handle challenging group situations
• When to facilitate and when to lead
• How to direct the energies and talents of a group of individuals in a common cause
• What to consider when trying to reach consensus
• What participants want and need from a facilitator
• How to support a group from ideas to actions

Participants will have the opportunity to practice facilitation skills through role- play

Who Should Attend:

• Program / project coordinators and team leaders of community-based organizations
• Board members of new or volunteer-based community organizations
• Individuals engaged in managing meetings with coalitions and networks
• This workshop builds on material covered in CAP 108 , Great Groups! It is NOT designed for facilitation in a therapeutic setting

Workshop registration limited to those currently employed with or in a governance position with a non-profit agency.