LEADING GROUPS TO SOLUTIONS

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Inspiring groups to convert knowledge and insight into solutions that create distinctive value

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WHY A WORKSHOP ON FACILITATION? Todays organizations rely less and less on the work of individuals. Instead, most of the work is accomplished by groups or teams. The collaborative nature of the Effective modern business environment provides team leaders with unique opportunitiesas well as unique challenges. To achieve the results they desire, team leaders must have facilitation the ability to lead groups, direct their combined efforts, and harness their energies is about and insights to achieve desired results. Facilitating the work of groups and teams optimizing the requires insight and a unique skill setone that many managers and individual involvement of contributors may not have had a opportunity to develop. Regardless of a teams goals and challenges, helping them navigate through the problems and decisions in a collaborative way is essential to maximize their potential. The ability to effectively facilitate group work is the key to making this happen. Carefully developed facilitation skills help groups do their best work. The Leading Groups to Solutions Workshop is specifically designed to help leaders and managers gain those skills.

In the Leading Groups to Solutions Workshop, participants learn how to guide team members as they solve problems, develop plans, organize tasks, and make decisions via group collaboration, compromise, and communication. As participants begin to apply the skills they learn in this workshop to their professional life, they will find that they are better prepared to focus their efforts, create synergy, find innovative solutions, and build shared commitment, and that these results are sustainable long into the future.

Facilitation Defined
A neutral process of effectively serving and coordinating the problem-solving activities of a team, and helping them define and achieve common objectives, while maintaining a balance between task and relationship issues. Facilitation is about optimizing the involvement of all participants. An effective facilitator serves and reflects the will of the group and doesnt over-control choices and procedures. A facilitator helps a group explore issues and sensitive topics that individual members may avoid or pass over. PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN HOW TO: Improve communications among team members. Maximize contributions through capitalizing on the strengths and minimizing the limitations of team members. Set objectives and focus efforts on the teams and the organizations plans and initiatives. Draw out creativity, innovation, and ideas in a collaborative manner. Support and facilitate discovery. Provide guidance and create a learning team. Optimize participation, communicate effectively, and increase team productivity. Build group unity, cohesiveness, and trust. Resolve challenges and conflicts.

WORKSHOP OUTLINEONE-DAY VERSION Welcome to the Workshop Workshop Objectives and Expectations Introduction to Facilitation Experiential Exercise: Assess current facilitation skills Presentation and Discussion: What is Facilitation? Leading Groups to Solutions Model Overview Experiential Exercise: Skill Practice Experiential Exercise Debrief The Leading Groups to Solutions Model In-Depth Application Laboratory: Participants apply the skills in small teams using real organizational issues Wrap-up WORKSHOP OUTLINETWO-DAY VERSION DAY ONE Welcome to the Workshop Workshop Objectives and Expectations Introduction to Facilitation Experiential Exercise: Assess current facilitation skills Leading Groups to Solutions Model Overview The Leading Groups to Solutions Model In-Depth Set-Up and Instructions for the Real Thing Exercise WORKSHOP MATERIALS Comprehensive Participant Workbook A copy of Leading Groups to Solutions: A Practical Guide for Facilitators and Team Members by Steven J. Stowell, Ph.D., Joel F. McCausland, and Stephanie S. Mead. Leading Groups to Solutions Model Experiential exercise material Round 1 and 2 of Practice: The Real Thing Exercise Wrap-Up Day One DAY TWO Rounds 3 through 7 of Practice: The Real Thing Exercise Rounds 8 through 10 of Practice :The Real Thing Exercise Round 11 of Practice: Presentations Action Plans and Sustainability Wrap-up Day Two 30% of the time is spent on the What and the Why of Facilitation. 70% of the time is spent on How to Facilitate using real organizational issues.

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LEARNING METHODS The Leading Groups to Solutions Workshop is offered in a variety of workshop delivery options including live classroom, virtual classroom, or web-based programs. The length of the course is flexible and depends largely on the delivery method chosen. Experienced CMOE facilitators lead workshops from any location of your choosing. We also offer a Train-the-Trainer workshop in which we teach in-house trainers the skills and knowledge necessary to deliver The Leading Groups to Solutions Workshop at any time. Clients that choose this option simply purchase the participant materials from CMOE on an as-needed basis once their trainer is certified to teach the program.

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PROCESS

WHO WE ARE CMOE provides organizations with training programs that are practical, with an emphasis on developing how-to skills using an experiential learning process. Our strategic objective is to partner with clients and provide solutions for their training needs as they arise. As a training partner, CMOE assists clients in defining and providing customized training needs. We dont fit you into a box; we help you design the box. CMOE was founded in 1978, and is based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. Through a commitment to ongoing research and consulting, CMOE has developed numerous skill-based training workshops, books, materials, and experiences that address the specific needs of leaders, team members, and organizations.

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ALSO BY CMOE
OTHER BOOKS: Leading Groups to Solutions: A Practical Guide for Facilitators and Team Members
by Steven J. Stowell, Ph.D., Joel McCausland, and Stephanie S. Mead, MBA. This book is about the collaborative process among team leaders and team members when building consensus, creating synergy, and harnessing collective energy to create innovative solutions.

The Coach: Creating Partnerships for a Competitive Edge

OTHER WORKSHOPS: Coaching Skills

During this workshop, participants acquire the skills to interact with co-workers in a way that will motivate action, drive out fear, and create the partnerships required to accomplish team and organizational goals.

by Steven J. Stowell, Ph.D. and Matt M. Starcevich, Ph.D. This book is about the coaching process and the skills, behaviors, courage, and values leaders need in order to evoke employee commitment and motivation. The Coach will also help leaders turn what is typically an uncomfortable and often avoided or mishandled task into a productive, one-onone experience for the leader and team members.

Exploring Teamwork

Ahead of the Curve: A Guide to Applied Strategic Thinking

by Steven J. Stowell, Ph.D. and Stephanie S. Mead, MBA. This book is about how managers and individual contributors can develop the ability to expand and exercise greater strategic influence over their work and life and make a strategic contribution to their organization.

The Team Approach: With Teamwork Anything is Possible

Strategy is Everyones Job

by Steven J. Stowell, Ph.D. and Stephanie S. Mead, MBA Whether its two people, a department, or an organization, teams are the means by which great things are accomplished. This book explores the inner dimensions of how groups of people become teams and how group dynamics can be managed.

This workshop is an experience-based learning journey that helps participants learn how to build and sustain a highperforming team and develop teamwork skills at the individual level. It can be delivered in an experiential classroom setting or combined with outdoor experiential activities to provide an unforgettable experience in team growth.

Applied Strategic Thinking

by Steven J. Stowell Ph.D. and Stephanie S. Mead, MBA This book is about the role of leaders in taking responsibility for strategic opportunities and navigating strategic shifts so the part of the business they are responsible for is better positioned for long-term success. Readers also learn how to execute their own strategic direction that aligns with and supports the organizations overarching strategy.

OTHER SERVICES: Customized Design

Our talented and experienced training curriculum design team is prepared to create an experiential workshop around a specific topic or develop a curriculum using a combination of topics of your choice.

As strategy skills continue to be in greater demand in the workplace, leaders and individual contributors need to develop the skills to have a broad perspective about their work and how they can make a strategic contribution. This engaging and dynamic workshop helps participants develop this important skill set so they become strategically minded and can ignite positive change.

Conflict and Collaboration

Connexus

Win-Win Partnerships: Be on the Leading Edge With Synergistic Coaching

by Steven J. Stowell, Ph.D. and Matt M. Starcevich, Ph.D. This book expands on the concepts and skills contained in CMOEs Eight-Step Coaching Model, explores the learning relationship, and teaches how to create synergistic solutions to lifes challenges, at work and elsewhere.

An organizational assessment process that will produce a unique and comprehensive picture of what is going on in your organization. Connexus helps leaders understand how the organization ticks and how to tune it up.

This workshop will help you learn how to manage the conflicts and differences that arise as you perform your work and interact with individuals and groups. During this workshop, participants will learn practical skills and concepts that will enhance existing strengths and abilities.

Innovation and Change

Speakers

Our professional speakers and trainers are available to make presentations, from a few minutes to a full day, for conventions, conferences, or other meetings. Book us for a presentation your group will not forget!

This workshop exposes participants to the skills needed to keep an open mind and develop the capacity to become an innovative force and lead productive change through innovative thinking. We also offer a workshop on Leading Innovation and Change for leaders wanting to create a culture of innovation and effectively lead change initiatives.

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