“A facilitator is an individual who uses self-awareness, self-management, group awareness, and group process to enable teams to access their collective intelligence in order to achieve their desired outcomes” (Acker, 2020).
This interactive and immersive facilitation training is specifically designed for technically oriented participants (“techies”) and offers you a structured but compact learning path in five consecutive modules.
You will learn how to confidently master facilitation challenges and create effective collaboration in teams and groups. The focus is on combining theoretical principles with practical methods, exercises, and direct application in your own work context.
Special attention is paid to remote facilitation: Here, you will benefit from proven methods, tools, and tricks to specifically promote structure, clarity, and participation online. Experience shows that the transfer to on-site settings will then come naturally.
In addition, you will gain practical insights into common moderation formats of Collaborative Modeling (CoMo), thereby expanding your methodological repertoire of effective facilitation techniques.
Agenda
- Introduction and basics
- Facilitation as a practical, neutral skill for creating open, safe, and innovative environments
- Distinction: Facilitation vs. moderation
- What kind of leadership suits the facilitation role?
- Your own attitude
- Reflect on and professionally develop your understanding of the role and your attitude
- Identify your own strengths and use them in a targeted manner
- Good preparation is (almost) everything!
- Structure as the basis for successful facilitation
- Address tensions or challenges in the group preventively
- Use your analytical tech approach as a strength
- During the workshop & the moderation flow
- Structure discussions instead of dominating them
- Control participation in a targeted manner
- Use structures for your own orientation and flexibility
- Useful methods, formats, and toolkits for techies
- Selected resources from collaborative modeling, liberating structures, core protocols, training from the back of the room, and more
- Your own facilitation “cockpit”
- Mastering real challenges from everyday life
- Dealing with talkative people, integrating (very) quiet people
- Involving non-techies or “management” effectively
- Conflict management in the role of facilitator
- Effective follow-up
- Avoiding wasted time
- Efficient evaluation of the workshop
- Metrics for success
- Transfer to your personal context
- Application exercises
- Moderated exchange of experiences among peers
- Development of solutions for your everyday work
Your Benefits
In future, you will chair meetings based on common and practical criteria: clarity, decisions, participation.
You will confidently master even heterogeneous group compositions, e.g., with customers, non-technical stakeholders, or management personnel.
You will receive lots of tips and tricks from the trainer’s years of moderation experience.
Your on-site moderation skills will also improve noticeably.
Peer support: Well-managed exchange among IT experts.
Lots of practice: Apply what you have learned directly between modules.
Audience
This training is suitable for software architects, tech leads, and senior developers.
It is also suitable for anyone who…
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… often “have to” (or wants to) give presentations or teach others.
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… want more interaction and participation.
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… want to take their remote facilitation skills to the next level.
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… work with different people and is looking for effective methods and tools to leverage these differences.
Training Objectives
Supplement your technical expertise with professional moderation and group leadership skills.
Design a good flow with structure for meetings and workshops.
Master challenges that arise with confidence and ease.
Skillfully involve both talkative and quiet colleagues.
Apply the skills you have learned directly in your everyday work.
Your Trainers
Cosima Laube
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Agile methods and organizations, professional coaching, soft skills
- Remote Facilitation for Techies
- Soft Skills for Software Architects
Cosima has been working in IT since 2002 and has gained extensive experience in (more or less) agile teams and organizations over the years. She has worked in roles such as software developer, requirements engineer, test and quality manager and lead developer and has played a key role in shaping both products and services.
In addition, Cosima has sound coaching skills (PCC certification from the International Coaching Federation) and has completed a part-time degree with a focus on work and health psychology (BSc. from the FernUniversität Hagen) in order to expand her portfolio beyond “hard” tech skills.
Cosima currently works primarily as a freelance leadership coach, socio-technical organizational consultant and soft skills trainer. She brings many years of diverse experience in various industries, including automotive, finance and banking, healthcare, eCommerce & tourism and public service.
Her credo at work and in life is: achieve more together with ‘respect & adapt’.