Onsite Programs - Training, HR, and HR Compliance
The Facilitative Trainer: How to be a Powerful Presenter and Flexible Facilitator in Today's Workplace

Description:
This workshop is an intensive, hands-on session that will instruct you in how to be a powerful presenter and flexible facilitator in today's workplace. 

Objectives/Benefits for Individuals include:

• Reduce phobias
• Analyze the audience
• Prepare presentation outlines (and creatively conceal notes)
• Begin with pizzazz and end with a bang
• Handle tough questions with grace
• Build teams without destroying individual initiative
• Debrief for insights and long-term learning

Objectives/Benefits for the Organization include:

• Improve employee involvement and participation
• Empower self-directed work teams
• Improve communication at all levels
• Strengthen total quality management program
• Develop articulate spokespeople for the organization

Overview of Workshop Content

• Presenting and facilitating-basic concepts
• The complementary skills of presentation and facilitation
• Content and task factors
• People factors
• Presentation and control factors
• Personality and team factors

How to reduce phobias

• Use therapeutic approaches--rational and cognitive
• Use affirmative anchors and topic focus
• Role-play a model
• Prepare extensively
• Work with a co-presenter
• Use media support
• Use stress-reduction techniques

How to make effective presentations

• Do front-end analyses
• Prepare materials, yourself, and the group
• Begin effectively
• Make a smooth, interactive, and light delivery
• Establish ground rules
• Use techniques for handling questions
• End effectively

How to facilitate effectively

• Do front-end analyses
• Select or modify group activity
• Prepare physical facilities, yourself, and the group
• Begin effectively
• Monitor group process
• Adjust structure, pace, and competitive level
• End effectively

Target Audience:

• Managers who want to make better presentations and facilitate employee groups
• Trainers who want to improve participant learning
  
• Team Leaders & Facilitators who want to coordinate self-directed work teams
  
• Sales Personnel who want to make their presentations more effective and interactive
  
• Consultants who want to expand their repertoire

To speak with an LSA Expert and learn about program customization and delivery options onsite at your company, please contact us.