Facilitating Change

Learn strategies for creating new processes to encourage progress and avoid common pitfalls

Facilitating Change focuses on enabling positive change in individuals, groups, and organizations through improved communication, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and learning.

The Facilitating Change workshop provides the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills necessary for effectively facilitating individuals and groups to achieve better results. During this program, you will:

• Learn strategies for creating new processes to encourage progress and avoid common pitfalls
• Identify opportunities for creativity and innovation in your organization
• Develop an understanding of behavior that contributes to change
• Master effective facilitation and training strategies for managing change
• Discover how to track performance measures to monitor the effects of change in your organization or group
• Practice and polish coaching and facilitation skills with a group of peers
• Join a community of trainers, facilitators, managers, and leaders
• Network with facilitators from a range of backgrounds

Who Should Attend

The Facilitating Change workshop is designed for professionals with experience in: training and development, performance improvement, group facilitation, management or leadership who are ready to take their skills to the next level.

This program provides a unique skill development opportunity for individuals in the following roles:

• Team Leaders, Managers, and Supervisors
• Human Resource Managers
• Facilitators, Coaches and Counselors
• Training & Development Specialists
• Instructional Designers

Move Beyond the Basics

Advanced Facilitation dives deeper than most facilitation training programs. Using LearningChange’s “Discover, Connect, Create” model for group dialog, you will explore effective strategies for engaging in meaningful discussions to examine individual, group, and organizational beliefs, policies, and existing paradigms. Moving beyond surface level issues allows you to realign groups and create new paradigms for better support of organizational strategies and goals.

More Information

Registration Information

• Categories: Training Development, Management, and Facilitation
• Dates: October 30-31, 2008
• Time: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. each day
• Location: Continuing Education Building, Room 107, California State University, Chico (Chico, CA)
• Cost: $795 per person, $100 discount for individuals from non-profits or groups with 5 or more participants

Facilitators

• Lauren Ball
• Scott Winter

“I found the Advanced Facilitation workshop to be extremely useful. I used the new skills immediately upon returning to the office. I would recommend the course to any person who considers themselves a "modern proactive leader.”
— Sharon Stone, Butte County Child Development Services

“Scott and Barry provided a terrific one two punch on facilitation. Their combined knowledge and experience produced a truly enlightening, educational and practical approach to helping others work together. This was the most applicable training I have ever attended.”
— Mathew McLaughlin, Enloe Hospital