Participants practice designing interventions. In small groups, participants spend 1.5 days practicing all of their facilitation skills using realistic role plays, including ones they have developed. Instructors provide specific feedback after each role play and each participant receives a videotape of his or her role plays and feedback. Self-Critique Day 5 Contracting with Groups Participants learn how to develop an agreement with a group about whether and how they will work together. They learn the stages of contracting, including who needs to be involved in each stage, and the decisions that need to be made at each stage.
Participants conduct role plays to practice contracting.
For those serving as facilitative leaders, we discuss how they can introduce this approach to groups in their organizations. Facilitating in Your Own Organization Participants learn strategies and specific techniques to address the special challenges they face when facilitating groups in their own organizations, including dealing with power and hierarchies, and reach agreements with your boss about how facilitation requests will be handled. Integrating the Skilled Facilitator Approach with other Approaches Participants identify how The Skilled Facilitator Approach reinforces, complements, or conflicts with other management approaches and training programs currently used in their organizations. They also consider what changes, if any, are needed to create more consistency among the management approaches and training programs. Continuing Your Learning Becoming a skilled facilitator, facilitative leader, or facilitative consultant takes more than a week.