Lead Effective and Engaging Workshops and Meetings

Design & Facilitate Workshops and Meetings: Drive Desired Results with Microsoft Teams, Whiteboard & POISED® Methodology

Created by: David Ross
Experienced Innovator, facilitator and business book author

What Will I Learn?

• Create outcome-focused robust sessions using the POISED® methodology, mitigating the reasons sessions fail to achieve outcomes & reducing facilitation stress
• Ensuring your Purpose and Outcomes are clear and fit with the bigger picture the session is part of
• Learn to Identify questions that, if answered, get the group to outcomes in the session
• Ensure you have the correct stakeholders and attendees to get outcomes in your session and post-session
• How exercises help you, how they work "under the bonnet". Enabling you to select the most suitable activities for your session
• Understand how to use a range of joint exercises for problem identification, problem-solving, solution creation and innovation
• How and when to use the collaborative features in the whiteboard, including the latest features like "Follow me", Timers, Collaborative cursors
• The facilitation skills to practice in the session to provide an engaging experience and more importantly, lead everyone to productive outcomes
• Understand the steps you need to take to ensure momentum in and post-session for any actions, ensuring progress for you and your organisation
• How to leverage feedback to enhance your session creation and facilitation using short surveys etc
• Understand tips and tricks that will prevent your session from going off track and enable a better attendee experience

Requirements

• Access to Microsoft Teams - (Currently free if you dont have access with your organisation)
• Basic Powerpoint skills to create assets you will use to guide attendees
• Basic Excel skills to enter information into a session planner which will be provided
• No previous experience in session planning or facilitation skills required!

Target audience

• This is designed to take a novice who has never facilitated a session or used MS Teams or Whiteboard on a journey to produce outcomes and develop higher-than-average facilitation skills