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Training Services
Would you like to enhance your teams' facilitation skills? We can transfer our expertise into your organization through a set of training workshops that introduce basic-to-advanced facilitation skills and apply those skills to your environment. As with all of our services, training is customized fit your specific needs and requirements.
Benefits
As a result of our training programs, your team will gain the basic skills required to effectively facilitate project meetings and ultimately improve your long-term project productivity. Our unique value is in providing...
- Real-world knowledge and experience of facilitating teams from people who've been doing it for years.
- Immediate application to your daily projects - not just theory.
- Techniques that are relevant to any meeting - they transcend organization or industry.
- Not just the how-to's, but also how to use them to get results.
Standard Training Workshops
Each workshop runs 1-3 days in length. Workshops may be customized to include organizational-specific exercises and templates.
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Meeting Facilitation Skills for Project Managers & Business Analysts
An introduction to basic techniques for meeting planning, keeping a group focused, managing momentum, handling difficult people, clarifying communication and decision-making. These techniques are invaluable whether you're facilitating a 30-minute meeting or a 2-day work session.
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Facilitation Skills for Process Improvement
People are key to process improvement. Not only are they the holders of knowledge about how processes work, where they fail, and how they could be made better; they are also the determining factor in whether the resulting changes are adopted or rejected. For these reasons, learning facilitation skills to better elicit information, guide group discussion, and lead process improvement work sessions are crucial. Good facilitation helps the team to draw on its' knowledge, wisdom, and experience to build better quality solutions.
In this 2-day workshop, you'll get specific techniques and associated “Do&s and Don&ts” that you'll be able to immediately apply to your projects. These techniques will accelerate the progress of your process improvement effort while building ownership of results.
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Business Process Modeling Techniques
An in-depth discussion of four basic models used in process analysis, improvement, and standardization. You'll get hands-on experience facilitating the creation and revision of these models both on the wall and in Visio. It is suggested that the exercises be customized to reflect company-specific processes and relevant projects.
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Collaborative Project Planning, Scoping, and Tracking
Techniques for scoping a project and collaboratively building a project timeline with a team. Plus an overview of how to facilitate a Work-In-Progress (WIP) Review. WIP's enable Project Managers to evaluate deliverable progress, identify interdependencies and unearth issues which may affect their projects success. It is suggested that the exercises be customized to reflect company-specific projects.
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Facilitating Business Requirements Definition
A step-by-step walkthrough demonstrating how to prepare for and gather good business requirements from a cross-organizational team. It is suggested that the exercises be customized to reflect company-specific projects.
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