Meeting Facilitation Skills for Leaders of Diverse Teams

Inclusive Facilitation Techniques to Make Efficient Decisions that the Harness Collective Wisdom of Your Team (DEI)

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Meeting Facilitation Skills for Leaders of Diverse Teams

What You Will Learn!

How to be an inclusive meeting facilitator of a diverse team
The roles, responsibilities, and mindset of an inclusive facilitator
How to create trust in your team and ensure a collaborative, safe, and supportive environment, which allows everyone to bring their full self and engage
How to develop a common understanding of norms of behavior during your meetings (with community agreements or ground rules)
How to handle difficult situations like high emotions, people who dominate discussions, people who don’t participate, and microaggressions.
How to ensure that people come to the discussion prepared with the right information and mindset.
How to facilitate consultative dialogue where ego is not in the room
Skills to help you facilitate problem solving exercises using tools like brainstorming, SWOT analysis, pareto diagrams, and mindmapping
How to facilitate a virtual meetings as well as in person
How to avoid common facilitation mistakes
How to effectively facilitate before the meeting, during the meeting, and after the meeting

Description

Numerous studies have proven that the most successful companies harness the collective wisdom of diverse teams. Your company’s value is the sum total of the decisions it makes and executes. Developing the skills needed to be an inclusive and efficient facilitator is critical for leaders and managers who want to ensure that all voices are heard, diverse perspectives are valued, efficient meetings are run, and high-quality decisions are made.

This course will give you practical skills, tactics, and tools to be an inclusive and efficient facilitator. You will learn how to handle tough situations and you will receive a clear roadmap for what to do before a meeting, during a meeting, and after a meeting. You will receive templates, checklists, and reference materials, along with exercises and quizzes to support your learning journey.

The sections of the course include:

Understanding key facilitation concepts

The importance of your role as a facilitator
Normal group formation dynamics
Psychological safety
A facilitator’s mindset
A facilitator’s responsibilities

How to facilitate before the meeting

Getting the right people there
Managing time
Defining the purpose and desired outcome
Defining roles and responsibilities
Setting and sending a clear agenda
Sending advance information needed for consultation
Prepping others to be successful in their roles

How to facilitate during the meeting

Define

How the group will work together
Structure of the meeting
Issues for discussion and decision

Deliberate

Mindset for participatory consultation
Dialogue skills
Body language
Problem-solving tools

Decide

Ways to get to consensus
Ways to achieve consent

Document

Minutes
Reporting out

How to facilitate after the meeting

Follow-up techniques
Techniques for giving and receiving feedback

How to facilitate tough situations

Power imbalances
Microaggressions
Dominating
Withholding
High emotion

Layli Miller-Muro has was CEO of a highly diverse organization for 20 years. Recognized for its sound management practices and inclusive consultative decision-making processes, under her leadership, the organization won the Washington Post Award for Management Excellence. She was named as one of Goldman Sachs's Top 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs and Newsweek Magazine's 150 Most Fearless Women in the World. Layli is an author and frequent lecturer. Currently, she is a consultant helping purpose-driven corporations and leaders operationalize their values.

Who Should Attend!

This course is for anyone who works with others who have a diversity of opinions or backgrounds and is interested in growing their skills to facilitate efficient and inclusive discussions and decisions.

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