Chain of Learning: Empowering Continuous Improvement and Lean Change Leaders

27 | 3 Practices to Become a Skillful Facilitator

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Oct 2, 2024

Are your meetings feeling stagnant? Discover how to facilitate with confidence and drive real results. Learn three essential practices to enhance your facilitation skills and avoid common pitfalls. Explore how to create engaging agendas that align with group goals and empower teams to make impactful decisions. Whether guiding leaders or your own team, these insights will help you establish credibility and motivate participants for success.

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INSIGHT

Facilitation Drives Impactful Change

Facilitation is key to leading teams to behavior change and impactful decisions.
Mastering facilitation helps ensure meetings result in clarity, alignment, and action.

ADVICE

Know Your Role and Goal

Clearly know your role as facilitator is to guide the process impartially toward the session's goal.
Define the session goal upfront with stakeholders to design an agenda that achieves desired outcomes.

ANECDOTE

Survey Changed Retreat Focus

A survey before a retreat revealed leaders' needs differed from assumptions, focusing on communication.
Adjusting the agenda to include cross-department collaboration made the session more impactful.

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Ever felt like your meetings or workshops aren’t moving the needle? How would you like to facilitate your next work session with confidence and ensure that your leaders are leaving motivated, aligned, and action-oriented?

Whether you're a continuous improvement practitioner, consultant, manager, or executive—facilitation is a crucial skill to master to become a transformational change leader. It’s the key to how you influence teams to shift behaviors, make impactful decisions, and drive meaningful results for the organization.

But great facilitation doesn’t happen by accident.

In this episode, we dive in behind the scenes to uncover the three key facilitation practices you must master to become a skillful facilitator, and some mistakes that you can avoid, so that you can ensure greater impact and make it easy for the team to get the results they need.

Whether you're working with senior leaders or your own teams, becoming a skillful facilitator is key to becoming the go-to person for driving success. It’s not just a valuable skill—it’s the foundation for establishing your credibility and ensuring that your team is engaged, aligned, and empowered to make informed decisions that move the organization forward.

YOU’LL LEARN:

Your role as a facilitator to create the process your group needs to meet the end goal
How to work with your stakeholders to define the goal of the session so that you can design an agenda to get to the right outcomes
The importance of creating a structured plan while maintaining flexibility to respond to what the group needs in the moment
How to to leverage reflection for yourself and the group before, during and after the session to create a bigger impact
Mistakes to avoid to become a master facilitator

IMPORTANT LINKS:

Full episode show notes: ChainOfLearning.com/27
Work with me: KBJAnderson.com
Change KATALYST™ Self–Assessment: KBJAnderson.com/KATALYST
Follow me on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kbjanderson

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Episode 9: The 8 Essential Skills to Become a Transformational Change Katalyst™

TIMESTAMPS FOR THIS EPISODE:

[3:40] Understand your role as a facilitator
[6:23] The importance of knowing the goal of the session before starting, whether it’s a workshop, leadership retreat, or a team meeting

[13:06] Learn how to create structure with flexibility by making real-time decisions to adjust based on the group’s needs

[18:01] Three ways to build reflection before, during, and after each session to ensure the impact of your session

[22:09] How to reflect with key stakeholders and yourself to grow your skills as a facilitator