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Facilitate for Learning Workshop

Description

Facilitate for Learning will teach you how to present content in a way that’s engaging to ensure that your audience learns. We cover what an effective facilitation style is, help you find your style and apply it to ensure effective learning. You’ll learn how to plan for the session using a variety of facilitation methodologies and techniques, and combine them into an effective facilitation plan. You will identify barriers to learning and practice how to remove them. We cover how to handle various dynamics in the class and how to deal with difficult learners. We also cover how to ask effective questions and handle questions in a session. You’ll have the opportunity to design and present a facilitated session in the class with immediate feedback from the group and the facilitator.  This course has everything you need to design, run and evaluate a facilitated session.

Audience

Trainers, facilitators, line managers.

Pre-Requisites

None.

You will leave with

1. Templates for planning a session.
2. A handout with facilitation exercises and how to run them.

Price: R8,500 per person (excl.VAT)

Upcoming Workshops:

Course is scheduled on request

2 days 08:30 – 16:30

Location
Johannesburg

Outline:
  • Learn how to: Explain what “facilitation” means and what it is used for;
  • Identify your own facilitation style;
  • Discuss how adults learn and how to use adult learning principles in your sessions;
  • Use a range of learning methodologies and techniques;
  • Plan an appropriate facilitation intervention to achieve a specific outcome;
  • Evaluate the dynamics in a group and identify the appropriate response for the facilitator;
  • Apply facilitative skills such as active listening, summarising, paraphrasing, clarifying and asking open ended probing questions;
  • Discuss how to handle a difficult learner and how to remove barriers to learning;
  • Discuss auxiliary aspects such as room set-up, seating and lighting;
  • Apply the learning in a simulated environment by designing and facilitating an intervention.