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Leadership

Facilitative Leadership Seminar

Making Work Groups, Teams, and Organizations More Effective

Overview

“Facilitative leadership” refers to the art and practice of powerfully engaging an organization’s individuals to make the most of their personal abilities, contribute those abilities constructively toward team performance and efficiently achieve desired outcomes for all. This seminar will help you enhance your influence and maximize your results by building greater trust, motivation and collaboration in groups. Participants will learn to maximize their influence, independent of formal position, and become skilled in quickly building trust among group members. You will gain an understanding of the motivations behind your behaviors and the behaviors of others. You will acquire skills to deal better with difficult people and resolve conflicts more effectively. This seminar offers a learning laboratory, using real-world experiences, videotaping and individual coaching to develop and apply your facilitative leadership skills in a variety of complex situations.
How Will You Benefit
  • Learn new approaches to facilitating and leading workgroups, teams and organizations to greater effectiveness
  • Acquire specialized interpersonal skills to identify, understand and manage a diverse set of motivational and behavioral styles

  • Optimize your trust-building abilities with a broad range of people and groups

  • Increase team collaboration and cooperation to achieve breakthroughs in thinking and performance
Who Should Attend

Managers, supervisors, facilitators, team leaders and project managers
Schedule
  • Mar 9 - 13, ‘09 @ WMDC, Aurora, CO Register
    $3,450.00
    Starts @ 8:00 am ends @ Noon on last day
  • Sep 21 - 25, ‘09 @ EMDC, Shepherdstown, WV Register
    $3,450.00
    Starts @ 8:00 am ends @ Noon on last day
Note
Tuition includes materials, meals and lodging
Competencies Emphasized
  • Flexibility
  • Team Building
  • Conflict Management
  • Influencing/Negotiating
  • Interpersonal Skills
Length

5 days.

Locations
  • WMDC, Aurora, CO
  • EMDC, Shepherdstown, WV
College Credits

2 Hours/Undergraduate (Upper)

 
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