So glad to have you here!

If you’re reading this, chances are you want to improve the way collaborative work happens in your team or organization.

Or maybe you have a business and want to deliver even more value to your clients by learning how to (better) facilitate decision-making, strategy, innovation sessions and workshops.

Either way, you’re in the right place.

Prompted by the need for people to work together effectively, cross-functional task forces, quality circle groups, and civic groups were the first to utilize task-oriented group facilitation more than forty years ago. As a result of all this activity, facilitation emerged as a new profession, and the International Association of Facilitation (IAF) was established in the US in 1994. The IAF has positioned itself as governance for professional standards and accreditation in the field of facilitation since its inception.

What to expect

In this class, we’ll introduce you to the fundamentals of Agile Facilitation 

• The THEORY behind facilitation
• The foundational facilitation TECHNIQUES every facilitator should have
• The TOOLS every facilitator requires in order to run successful
• sessions or workshops
• How to PLAN and design agile workshops
• How to BUILD your first agile workshop

Learn the fundamentals that drive your agile workshops.

At the end of the course, we ensure every attendee has a tacit comprehension of the material delivered. Since each of our courses are led by agile practitioners, we are always sharing our experiences from the field and providing relevant examples from what we have learned from our own journey.

The outcome

• Planning, guiding, and managing a workshop to ensure a team solves their challenge. Your task as a facilitator is to align the team’s goals with the right sort of exercises and appropriate workshop processes. You are also responsible for selecting the right tools, defining the workshop team set-up, and creating an agenda that will help you reach your end goal without overwhelming the workshop participants.

• Making collaborative work feel frictionless by avoiding the usual pitfalls of teamwork (like team politics and circular discussions) and making sure every person in the room gets heard.

• Resolving possible conflict by mediating different points of view and maintainingobjectivity at all times.

• Enabling teams to do their best work by allowing the team to focus on the challenge at hand instead of worrying about the actual decision-making process.

• Helping the team articulate key ideas by using fitting facilitation techniques and frameworks.