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Facilitation Center Trainings

Our trainings are conducted throughout the year in the Richmond, KY area and advertised on our website, as well as through direct e-mail notification. Our professional trainers carefully design energetic, cutting-edge trainings where attendees are actively involved and engaged in a safe environment that allows them to begin developing or sharpening their facilitation skills. If an organization has an existing group that would like to receive training, workshops can also be arranged in other venues. Our trainers have traveled from Washington to Florida, providing trainings for various businesses and organizations. If you’d like to receive e-mail notifications about upcoming workshops or more information about providing a workshop at another location, please contact us.

Our Training Approach

Our training approach is best summed up by Benjamin Franklin’s, “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” We have much to teach with our experience in facilitation and DACUM Occupational Analysis, but we understand that is not enough to truly make an impact. We want our training participants to leave with the knowledge and experience.

Knowledge is an understanding and familiarity with facts and information. We pack our trainings with key knowledge we’ve acquired over the years and from working with hundreds of groups in various settings and situations.

Skill is the ability to perform tasks with a high degree of proficiency. This is where the rubber meets the road. We understand that to truly learn something, you’ve got to roll up your sleeves and get in there to give it a try. That is why we carefully design energetic, cutting-edge trainings where attendees are actively involved and engaged in a safe environment that allows them to begin to develop or sharpen their facilitation skills. For example, in our DACUM Occupational Analysis training, participants observe an actual panel of high-performing incumbent workers as they create an occupational profile.

Available Trainings

Next Dates: TBD
Location: Online via Zoom
Registration Fee: $995

This two-day introductory workshop is designed to strengthen meeting facilitation skills in order to better prepare for and facilitate effective meetings and projects. The Facilitation Center will provide participants with a certificate of completion and a copy “Meeting Management and Facilitation Skills” by Stefanie Ashley and Sarah Gilbert.

Topics Covered

  • Role of the Facilitator
  • Meeting Design and Planning
  • Generating Creative Ideas
  • Safe, Enjoyable Meeting Environments
  • Visuals, Display Thinking, and Storyboarding
  • Managing Group Dynamics

Who Should Attend?
The training is designed for those who have never facilitated a meeting, as well as those who have some basic facilitation experience.

  • New facilitators will learn the philosophy, techniques, tools, and processes involved in an effective meeting, plus garner confidence in leading future meetings. This training also teaches the value of engaged participants, so even if you don’t facilitate a lot of meetings, you can still reap the rewards of using what you’ve learned and share with others to help meetings run more smoothly.
  • Participants with some experience will learn new tools and techniques, be given the opportunity to sharpen facilitation skills, and validate what they know (or don’t know). In addition, participants are formalizing their knowledge and skills, making them even more valuable to their employers or future employers.

When/Where Are Trainings Held?
This two-day training is conducted throughout the year in the Richmond, KY area or online via Zoom and advertised on our website, as well as through direct e-mail notification. Workshops can also be arranged in other venues if an organization has an existing group that would like to receive training. Our trainers have traveled from Washington to Florida, providing trainings for various businesses and organizations. If you’d like to receive e-mail notifications about upcoming workshops or more information about providing a workshop at another location, please contact us.

Next Dates: TBD
Location: Online via Zoom
Registration Fee: $995

This two-day introductory workshop is designed to strengthen meeting facilitation skills in order to better prepare for and facilitate effective meetings and projects. The Facilitation Center will provide participants with a certificate of completion and a copy “Meeting Management and Facilitation Skills” by Stefanie Ashley and Sarah Gilbert.

Topics Covered

  • Dealing with Controversial Issues
  • Designing Constructive Conversations
  • Funneling Ideas into Action
  • Prioritization of Ideas
  • Reaching Consensus
  • Spinning Vague Ideas into Specific, Rich Ideas

Who Should Attend?
This workshop is designed for those who have experience with facilitation and want to broaden their knowledge and skills as facilitators. It is recommended that you take the Meeting Management and Facilitation Skills Workshop prior to this advanced session. These advanced techniques will sharpen facilitation skills, as well as prepare facilitators for larger groups dealing with more complex topics. The knowledge, tools, and techniques presented will allow a facilitator to tackle a variety of meetings, such as:

  • Action Planning
  • Brainstorming
  • Consensus Building
  • Problem Solving
  • Retreats
  • Team Building

When/Where Are Trainings Held?
This two-day training is conducted throughout the year at Eastern Kentucky University and is advertised on our website and through direct email notification. Workshops can also be arranged in other venues if an organization has an existing group that would like to receive training. Our trainers have traveled from Washington to Florida, providing training for various businesses and organizations. Please contact us if you’d like to receive email notifications about upcoming workshops or more information about delivering a session at another location.

Next Dates: TBD
Location: Richmond, Kentucky
Registration Fee: $1,295

This interactive workshop provides specific tools and techniques for facilitating strategic planning sessions. The techniques will apply to groups that are either updating or creating a strategic plan. The elements of a strategic plan will be covered, as well as how to facilitate constructive conversations and activities that collaboratively build these elements. The Facilitation Center will provide participants with a certificate of completion, a strategic planning workbook, and an electronic resource guide and templates.

Topics Covered

  • Envisioning the Future
  • Mission, Vision, and Core Values
  • Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) Analysis
  • Establishing Goals
  • Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely (SMART) Objectives
  • Long- and Short-Term Action Planning

Who Should Attend?
This workshop is designed for those who have experience with facilitation and want to broaden their knowledge and skills as facilitators. Many professionals benefit from this training, including business owners, management professionals, trainers, and educators.

When/Where Are Trainings Held?
This three-day training is conducted throughout the year in the Richmond, KY area and advertised on our website, as well as through direct e-mail notification. Workshops can also be arranged in other venues if an organization has an existing group that would like to receive training. When planning, it’s important to keep in mind this training typically involves conducting an actual strategic planning session. If you’d like to receive e-mail notifications about upcoming workshops or more information about providing a workshop at another location, please contact us.

Next Dates: TBD
Location: Richmond, Kentucky
Registration Fee: $1,295

DACUM incorporates the use of a focus group in a facilitated storyboarding process to capture the major duties, tasks, knowledge, skills, and traits of an occupation. In this three-day training, trainees observe an actual panel of high-performing incumbent workers as they create an occupational profile. Throughout the workshop, trainees observe the panel, debrief with the instructor, and participate in the panel’s process in various ways that don’t interfere with the validity of the panel’s work. This “fishbowl” method allows trainees to see real-life events as they unfold. This allows trainees to see first-hand the exhilarating and challenging situations that can arise during meetings and how professionals deal with them as they arise.

Topics Covered

  • DACUM Philosophy and History
  • DACUM Job Analysis Process
  • Storyboarding
  • Determining Panel Members
  • Role of Panel Members, Facilitators, Recorders, and Observers
  • Meeting Design and Preparation
  • Meeting Logistics
  • DACUM Facilitation
  • Facilitation Tools and Supplies
  • Developing the Occupational Profile Chart

Who Should Attend?
This workshop is designed for those who have experience with facilitation and want to broaden their knowledge and skills as facilitators. Many professionals benefit from this training, including human resource professionals, managers, trainers, and educators. This training is valuable for anyone developing a training or education curriculum, but it also has other valuable uses as well.

When/Where Are Trainings Held?
This three-day training is conducted throughout the year in the Richmond, KY area and advertised on our website, as well as through direct e-mail notification. Workshops can also be arranged in other venues if an organization has an existing group that would like to receive training. When planning, it’s important to keep in mind this training involves conducting an actual DACUM Occupational Analysis. The Center can work with clients to develop a panel and coordinate the logistics. If you’d like to receive e-mail notifications about upcoming workshops or more information about providing a workshop at another location, please contact us.

Next Dates: By request, minimum group size of eight
Registration Fee: $295
Email Sarah Gilbert if you would like to request this training for your group.

This four-hour remote workshop is carefully designed to get attendees actively involved and engaged in a safe environment.

Topics Covered

  • Key planning steps for successful remote meetings
  • Basic and advanced functions in Zoom, including breakouts and polling
  • Virtual collaboration tools and important platform criteria based on needs
  • Strategies for engaging a remote audience

Who Should Attend?
This workshop is designed for those with facilitation experience who want to broaden their knowledge and sharpen existing facilitation skills in a remote setting.

When/Where Are Trainings Held?
This four-hour training is conducted throughout the year online via Zoom and advertised on our website, as well as through direct e-mail notification. Workshops can also be arranged if an organization has an existing group that would like to receive training. If you’d like to receive e-mail notifications about upcoming workshops or more information about providing a workshop to an organization, please contact us.

The professional trainers and staff at the Facilitation Center also provide trainings tailored to a client’s specific needs. These trainings can be conducted at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU), or we are also happy to work with clients on other venues that may be better suited for their needs.

The staff can provide a great deal of support and assistance in planning and coordinating these trainings, as well as conducting the customized workshops. We would be delighted to talk with you about your needs and brainstorm ways we can develop a customized training for your group. Once we’ve got an agreed-upon scope of work, we will prepare a firm-fixed price for your consideration. Contact us to schedule a meeting to discuss your training needs.

Payments & Cancellations

Payments
Checks and all major credit cards are accepted. Fees must be paid in US dollars and made payable to Eastern Kentucky University. EKU faculty and staff may pay through EKU Inter-Account. Contact Sarah Gilbert for more information.

Cancellation Policy
Fees will be refunded, less a $25.00 cancellation processing fee, if cancellation or change resulting in a refund is received in writing no later than ten working days before the first day of training