The Project Management Workshop Suite

Building the Foundation	Planning and Execution In-Depth	Playing your Special Role
Foundations of Project Management Improving Project Outcomes	Project Planning and Scheduling Project Tracking and Control Project Risk Management	The Strong Project Team Leader The Vital Project Sponsor Facilitating Effective Project Meetings

Facilitating Effective Project Meetings        PMI #2640-108   14 PDUs

Duration: 2 Days, Maximum 10 Participants

Audience: This course is a highly participative and comprehensive workshop targeted at team leaders, project managers, business managers, and others who run meetings, who need to build facilitation skills and improve meeting performance. It is instructed by individuals who are themselves master facilitators.

Description: Excellence in meeting facilitation is a skill set shown to dramatically increase team meeting productivity, produce better plans, make smarter decisions and generate high-quality information in meetings. In short, it is the difference between an energized productive meeting with tangible business results and a draining waste of time and resources. Through experiential activities, discovery learning and robust practice with peers, participants will explore, make sense of and then practice facilitating a set of ground rules for group effectiveness. Participants will create a simple plan of how to take their individual facilitation skills to the next level.

Learning Objectives: Participants will gain knowledge, use practical templates, and have individual practice time to build facilitation experience and skills. During the course participants will:

• Probe the role and value of group facilitation in team meetings.
• Explore the ask-tell continuum that underlies the roles of Leader, Trainer, Consultant, Coach and Facilitator; discuss the necessity and value of dynamic flexibility across these roles.
• Learn the relative benefits of didactic and Socratic methods, and when to use each in a team or project meeting.
• Apply a structured questioning approach to support group effectiveness.
• Work with a meeting-planning tool that sets the stage for an effective meeting.
• Practice facilitating a set of ground rules for group effectiveness.
• Practice facilitating a group discussing a current business decision or issue.
• Receive peer and master facilitator feedback against a set of facilitation behaviors.
• Resolve meeting disagreements using a range of simple intervention practices.
• Prepare a plan to apply back on the job what they have learned and practiced in this workshop.