Facilitation Skills

for your team or organisation

Ideal duration is 2 x half days or 1 x full day

Capability Building Program : in person | remote | hybrid

The capability to facilitate is increasingly becoming one of this decade's critical skills for managers and people leaders in business.

These elegant, collaborative and engaging capabilities are no longer just for trainers, presenters or group and process practitioners.

Executives, business analysts, project managers, middle level team and people leaders as well as those new to managing are seeing and experiencing the benefits of being able to

- engage with a group or team,

- draw information from that group, and then

- help them collaborate to achieve an agreed outcome.

For experienced managers and leaders, the landscape is also changing: leadership styles continue to evolve and shift. The days of telling people what to do is gone; greater engagement, influence and impact is how people are getting things done.

And add to these changes the diversity of teams today.

Different ages, generations, cultures, languages, interests and motivations; finding ways of engaging, involving and working with them is totally up to the leader, not the team or the individual. Expecting people to 'be engaged' is a cop out.

Leaders and managers of today need to elicit the involvement and engagement of their team.

People on your team need to feel like they want to be engaged in the plan, strategy and vision. They will contribute their input and give discretional effort if the environment is right. Leaders and managers can do so much to create the right environment and set up the processes that will help that team work together and collaborate.

But make no mistake, facilitation is not ‘soft’ work. 

There are many effective and well-structured approaches and techniques that high performing facilitators use to achieve swift, creative and relevant outcomes with a group  Managers and leaders can learn these techniques and approaches. 

Lynne Cazaly's book 'Leader as Facilitator: How to inspire, engage and get work done'

What people say about Lynne Cazaly's Facilitation Skills program:

This was one of the most valuable courses I have attended. Full of great tools, advice, ideas and thoughtful information. Facilitation skills delivered as learning experience in a new way - facilitation  + experiential

Good range of visual tools and interaction with the group. Comfortable working environment

I like the variety of presentation styles and model; and overall enthusiasm. The techniques and tools will be easily applied to my work and will improve my facilitation skills.

I learnt techniques to improve my facilitation skills. I liked the interactive aspects of the course.

I liked that the session was very interactive. Also, excellent choice of music

I liked that any topic, question, query, concern was on the table and we could spend time talking about it. We didn't 'park' it because it wasn't part of the training. 

Really enjoyed the whole day. Never lost interest. Great energy and all topics covered valuable in work and personal situations. Thanks!

Thankyou very much for your insightful, engaging and generous facilitation today. I've got some important hindsight as a result, some new tools in my pocket, and a stronger commitment to keep improving my communication options and methods.... Thankyou. 

It's no simple gig to meet the needs of such a diverse set of sectors in one room and you did so today with relevance and respect.

A practical experience of a range of techniques to use in a variety of circumstances

I liked learning lots of techniques and tactics. I enjoyed the friendly, relaxed (yet structured) environment. Particularly permission to "go slow". The value will impact all my interpersonal activities - work, home & social.

I have enjoyed learning techniques to assist with facilitation & hosting/running meeting of workshop. Demonstration and examples provided throughout the day are really helpful.

Breaking the training down into clean language; clarity to how I can apply techniques in my day to day living; confidence; appreciated learning through doing and specific techniques

I now have techniques to use to have difficult questions and to distill information; Increased insight into what I can bring to facilitation. 

You've given me the info I need to help with my skills. A lot to digest and think about that will give me a great toolkit. I really enjoyed the days and already have ideas for future workshops I have coming up.  

Confidence in handling difficult participants or questions in my BAU. Confidence in putting my hand up to run sessions for other teams across the business.

Lynne I really enjoyed the 'process' and structure. Having the modules was like having a roadmap and helped it all come together for me. Loved the real life facilitation stories. I'm feeling a renewed sense of confidence and drive in taking forward my facilitation.