If you've found The Skilled Facilitator helpful and want to develop your mutual learning mindset and skill set to help groups get better results, consider attending a Skilled Facilitator Intensive workshop. Roger Schwarz & Associates offers open-enrollment workshops and delivers workshops at your organization.

In this five-day workshop, you will engage in intensive, instructor-guided practice based on your real work facilitative challenges. You will:

• Review the core values, assumptions, and principles of the Skilled Facilitator approach with practical examples of how to apply them.
• Practice applying mutual learning strategies and techniques to create more productive meetings, groups, and teams.
• Get detailed, real-time instructor feedback as you practice the mutual learning approach using your real facilitative challenges.

Throughout the workshop, you will get answers to three questions: What do I do? How do I do it? Why do I do it that way? You will learn:

• How the roles of facilitator, leader, consultant, coach, and trainer are similar and different, and when it is appropriate to serve in each of these roles.
• How to identify and deal with situations in which groups ask you to act inconsistently with your role.
• Strategies and techniques to address the specific challenges you face when facilitating, consulting, training, or coaching groups.
• How your mindset may lead you to create the very situations you are trying to avoid: mistrust, defensive behavior, poor problem solving, and limited group learning.
• How to shift from a unilateral control mindset to a mutual learning mindset.
• How to use the five core values of the Mutual Learning approach—transparency, curiosity, accountability, informed choice, and compassion—to guide your work with groups.
• How to diagnose and intervene with groups using the Team Effectiveness Model.
• How to intervene in a group to improve its process, including what to say, how to say it, when to say it, who to say it to, and why.
• How to contract for a solid working relationship and avoid many problems that reduce your ability to help the group.

To learn more about The Skilled Facilitator Intensive workshop, visit www.schwarzassociates.com or call us at 919–932–3343.