acilitating Team Empowerment
 
We are at a pivotal point in our human resource culture in that we recognize the need to make our employees number one. We needed a strong motivational presentation to be the catalyst for finally bringing our management "style" up-to-date. Your workshop did the job!  Thank you.
Joan Deichler, Human Resources Manager, Ferrofluidics Corporation 
The skills of facilitation focus on participating without taking over, guiding without directing, encouraging action without suggesting what those actions should be. It is the facilitator who must keep the team focused on constant, continual improvement and thus encourage the team to set goals for its own growth. The critical event for any team is the weekly meeting. If it is of poor quality, the team will be unable to achieve its goals. The facilitator must push the team to plan its meetings and then assist the team in maintaining an orderly meeting process. 

Part of productive meeting strategies is to recognize behaviors that are destructive to the team's effectiveness and to coach team members into behaviors that are empowering and further the team's cohesiveness. Assisting the team to resolve its various conflicts without outside intervention enhances the team's sense of competence. The more the facilitator knows about group dynamics and team empowerment, the better able he/she will be able to guide the team through the mine fields of seemingly innocent decisions that in the long run will increase the team's chance of failure. 

 
Time Frame - Two days

Audience - Anyone whose job includes working with a
team as a member or as a facilitator

 
 
Results Achieved

 
Skills Acquired
  • ability to manage disruptive behavior in a team setting without taking over the group or damaging any member's self-respect
  • skill in generating supportive comments that nudge the discussion toward action
  • know what is required to have a successful team meeting
  • competence in guiding the team into adopting such meeting criteria
  • facilitate a team activity in a manner that supports the group's growth and empowerment
  • proficiency in mediating conflicts between team members without resolving the issues for the combatants
  • recognize and avoid those practices which contribute to a team's failure to achieve it's goals 
  • understand what contributes to a team's cohesiveness
  • recognize and encourage the characteristics of successful teams
  • facility with both visual (reading body language cues) and auditory listening

 
 
 
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