Inclusive Meeting Facilitation Skills

Facilitation Techniques to Make Efficient Decisions that the Harness Collective Wisdom of Your Diverse Team (DEI)

Created by: Layli Miller-Muro
Social Impact Advisor

What Will I Learn?

• How to be an inclusive meeting facilitator of a diverse team
• The roles, responsibilities, and mindset of an inclusive facilitator
• How to create trust in your team and ensure a collaborative, safe, and supportive environment, which allows everyone to bring their full self and engage
• How to develop a common understanding of norms of behavior during your meetings (with community agreements or ground rules)
• How to handle difficult situations like high emotions, people who dominate discussions, people who don’t participate, and microaggressions.
• How to ensure that people come to the discussion prepared with the right information and mindset.
• How to facilitate consultative dialogue where ego is not in the room
• Skills to help you facilitate problem solving exercises using tools like brainstorming, SWOT analysis, pareto diagrams, and mindmapping
• How to facilitate a virtual meetings as well as in person
• How to avoid common facilitation mistakes
• How to effectively facilitate before the meeting, during the meeting, and after the meeting

Requirements

• An interest in being an inclusive facilitator or participating in a well-facilitated meeting

Target audience

• This course is for anyone who works with others who have a diversity of opinions or backgrounds and is interested in growing their skills to facilitate efficient and inclusive discussions and decisions.