Prism provides facilitation training, including:
- Efficient and effective team decision-making
- Strategic planning
- Creative problem solving
- Conflict resolution and consensus building
- Meeting facilitation
Typical training modules include:
Facilitation 101
Participants in this very interactive session will understand the role and key skills of a facilitator including:
- Pre-meeting planning to assess the client’s needs, establishing a set of meeting objectives and agendas, assigning roles, communicating to the team and other stakeholders
- General facilitation skills: the concept of deferred judgment, divergence before convergence and basic methods for each, and basic conflict management techniques
- Post meeting responsibilities: Evaluation, documentation, and ways to maintain momentum to implementation
Group Decision-making
Participants in this very interactive session will learn and practice accelerated collaborative idea generation and decision-making tools and techniques, including
- Collaborative Affinity Mapping
- Deep prioritizing with the pair-wise comparison analysis
- Profiling for strategic leverage
- Implementation Planning
Implementation Planning
Participants in this very interactive session will learn and practice accelerated collaborative idea generation and decision-making tools and techniques that are especially useful when
- Facilitating implementation and action planning
- Developing communication plans
Consensus Techniques
You’re in a dynamic, collegial planning session. Suddenly the great excitement and creative energy deflate as the group moves to select a set of options. Participants retreat to their parochial interests. Negotiation supplants invention. Turf rules. What to do? This interactive session will demonstrate a simple but powerful step-by-step consensus process based on the principles of interest bargaining taught by the Harvard Program on Negotiation.
