Focus on Facilitation Seminar

Focus on Facilitation Brochure

A new, advanced facilitation training course for facilitators, team leaders, and managers

Facilitator skills are in high demand today as companies search for specialists who are professionally trained to effectively manage team interactions. Whether live or virtual, teams need assistance to move quickly toward project and process goals.

Millions of dollars are wasted daily by employees trapped in unproductive meetings.

We can help you transform meetings from dreaded to dynamite with our new facilitation training course, Focus on Facilitation. This powerful facilitaion training program is designed to develop expert facilitators, trained to work with your employees to help resolve your toughest business challenges.

The Focus on Facilitation training course combines the core tools from three de Bono Thinking Systems methods to equip selected employees to become expert facilitators for any kind of meeting: innovation, decision making, change management, problem solving, and strategic planning, to name a few.

Engage participants and help them accomplish much more—before, during, and after attending meetings you lead.

3 Key Facilitation Skills Are Developed in This Three-Day Facilitation Training Course

1. Facilitating parallel thinking: The ability to get everyone focused on using the same thinking tool at the same time to enable comprehensive and productive thinking about the challenge
2. Designing thinking frameworks to help solve a wide variety of challenges
3. Speaking clearly in subject language to better direct and focus the thinking attention of the meeting attendees

At Focus on Facilitation, you'll learn through experience in a supportive, interactive environment. Incorporated into the workshop are tools from three de Bono courses (Lateral Thinking, Management Thinking (DATT) and Six Thinking Hats), integrating an arsenal of tools to boost facilitation skills.

Focus on Facilitation participants are impressed with the quality of information they receive, and are ready to put their facilitation training immediately to work in coaching, project meetings, change management initiatives, strategic planning sessions and more.

Focus on Facilitation is the optimum facilitation training course for companies who desperately need new systems to help employees stop wasting time in ineffective meetings. Focus on Facilitation workshops, taught by certified instructors, equip participants to manage group processes with new power and efficiency.

Our instructor-led Focus on Facilitation training course teaches practical tools, requires multiple, coached facilitation practices, and includes many useful resources that support your new techniques.

Focus on Facilitation Materials

• Executive portfolio with room for all your facilitator visuals
• Complete Focus on Facilitation facilitator handbook
• Focus on Facilitation exercise book to collect all the tips you get and thinking you do during the workshop
• Facilitation cards to “deal” yourself a visual map of the agenda you're planning
• Focus on Facilitation table mats that engage your meeting participants in tracking group progress
• Sliderules so participants may easily call to mind the steps in the de Bono thinking methods
• Focus on Facilitation capture cards for writing, sorting, and assessing ideas generated
• Energy dots to indicate top priority ideas and to measure buy-in on decisions made
• Catalog of colorful, practical facilitation supplies, both de Bono specific and generic

Also included in our Focus on Facilitation training course is an e-assistant to help you put your new de Bono facilitation training & tools to use in both live and virtual meetings! Your e-assistant:

• shows the topic and the tool currently in use
• displays prompts
• keeps time
• provides an electronic flipchart that never needs transcribing
• saves ideas to a searchable data base where ideas are stored for future reference
• exports output in various formats

Now with our Focus on Facilitation training course, you will have complete confidence in your ability to work with groups as an expert de Bono facilitator. Whether participants walk into your meeting room or take their places on your computer monitor, they will show up prepared and will contribute fully when you employ all your new facilitation training, tools and techniques.

Note: If you are not currently a meeting facilitator, please consider Six Thinking Hats.

How Facilitators Can Learn the Focus on Facilitation Methods:

Attend a Focus on Facilitation Training Seminar

• Bring a certified Focus on Facilitation Instructor in-house to deliver a Focus on Facilitation training seminar for your meeting facilitators. Call               800.278.1292        for details.
• Attend a public Focus on Facilitation training seminar:

Date	Seminar	Location	Price
April 7-10, 2008	Focus on Facilitation Seminar	Phoenix, AZ	$3,298
April 15-17, 2008	Focus on Facilitation Seminar - Presented in Spanish	Monterrey, Mexico	$2,499
October 7-9, 2008	Focus on Facilitation Seminar - Presented in Spanish	Mexico City, Mexico	$2,499

Note:  Price: $3,298 - Includes Prerequisite Six Thinking Hats Training on April 7.
If you have already attended Six Thinking Hats end-user training, you'll pay $2,499 to attend Focus on Facilitation, April 8-10. Call 800.278.1292.

Focus on Facilitation Training Prerequisite
Six Thinking Hats end-user training is required before attending a Focus on Facilitation training course.

Focus on Facilitation: Accredited de Bono Facilitator Credentials
Following the Focus on Facilitation training, you will need to submit 3 Focus on Facilitation Field Work Reports in order to earn your Accredited de Bono Facilitator credentials.

Have your trainer become certified to teach the course to your internal/external clients.

• Have us conduct an internal Focus on Facilitation Certification at your organization.
  Call               800.278.1292        for details.
• Attend a public Focus on Facilitation Certification (held once per year).
  View our event schedule for upcoming public Focus on Facilitation Certification dates and locations.

Note: Attending this Focus on Facilitation seminar does not certify you to teach Focus on Facilitation.  If you wish to teach the Focus on Facilitation methods to others you're required to complete the official four-day Focus on Facilitation Trainer Certification.  For Focus on Facilitation Certification details please click here or call               515.278.1292       .