Facilitation Skills Training

Give your people the confidence they need to bring the best out of groups of all sizes

Our professional facilitators will train you and your team to keep everyone’s eyes on the goal and get the best outcomes from your meetings and workshops.

Make Happy workshop being led

Bad meetings are often the result of vague goals and an unstructured meeting plan. A good facilitator can fix this, by making your workshop or strategy session a rewarding experience resulting in real actions. We can train you in this skill.

Creative Facilitation Training

Upskill yourself or your team in creative facilitation techniques, to tackle difficult rooms and help diverse groups achieve extraordinary results in team meetings and workshops …

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Our Approach to Facilitation Training

Make Happy provides you training from experienced facilitators for making your workshops and meetings as productive as possible. We have a range of processes and tools and will train you to use these yourself, designing a training workshop specifically for your needs. Our clients range from game-changing tech firms like Uber to world-leading universities like UCL and Trinity College Dublin.

Our meeting facilitators are certified in Lego Serious Play, Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving, FourSight Thinking Profile and Basadur Applied Innovation.

Who is this for?

Leaders and organisations interested in moving their teams forward and empowering them with facilitation skills to enable better meetings and team sessions. If you want to be a leader who moves all involved towards higher performance, or want to develop such leaders in your teams, this is for you. Enable better strategy, and creativity sessions, and better meetings.

Benefits of Meeting Facilitation Training

Our facilitator training will help to:

Embed key facilitation skills, practical tools and techniques in your team

Give your team the confidence they need to tackle difficult group dynamics or behaviour

Enable more productive meetings and group sessions

Foster understanding of the essential psychological theories on which to build facilitation practice

Facilitation Course outline

During this interactive session we will:

  • Explore the psychology of group dynamics and facilitation
  • Look at the key theories which inform best practice in facilitation
  • Learn practical tools, tips and techniques to help participants manage group meetings or workshops
  • Look at common challenges and how to deal with them

Aims and objectives

By the end of this session you will be able to:

  • Have greater awareness of what make great facilitation
  • Feel confident facilitating all kinds of groups
  • Be equipped with a wealth of practical tools to bring to bring out the best in the groups they facilitate
  • Understand how to manage difficult behaviour and situations

Duration and delivery

This training can be delivered to your team as either a one day exploration or two day deep dive.  You can choose between in-person, virtual or hybrid delivery modes.

Nothing but a 100% positive, fun and of course happy experience with the team at Make Happy and its training and facilitation services.

Shay
Programme Manager, Trinity College Dublin

Workshop Facilitation Training Course

Want the skill of heading better meetings that lead to actually useful results?

Learn to tackle difficult rooms and help diverse groups achieve extraordinary results in team meetings and workshops …

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Other Services

LEGO® Serious Play® Facilitator Training

Psychological Safety Training

Professional Meeting Facilitators