Facilitation Services
Potentials Realized offers a facilitation services for organizations and groups. We provide both process facilitation and content facilitation services. Several programs are also offered to build the facilitation and training capacity of your staff members.
Facilitation - Comes from the Latin Facilis = To make easy
Examples of past facilitation services include:
• Staff Retreat Facilitation (1 - 5 days)
• Strategic Planning Facilitation for non-profits, boards,
government entities and corporate departments
• Contract Facilitation Services for National Corporate
Roll Outs in the financial services sector
• Facilitation for Program Reviews in the Social Sector
• Employee Focus Group Facilitation
• Lunch and Learn Sessions
Clients who have benefited from our facilitation services include:
• St. Joseph's Health Centre Foundation
• CDI College
• UNV, UN Mission to Haiti
• TD Waterhouse
• Toronto CFA
• CDI College, Newmarket
Want to make your next facilitation need Easy? Contact Jennifer Britton toll free at: info@potentialsrealized.com
Train the Trainer and Facilitation Skills Training:
Potentials Realized also offer train-the-trainer programs and facilitation skills training programs to enable you to equip your staff with the skills they need in facilitation or training. These can be delivered in-house or offsite across North America.
These programs typically run for 1 - 3 days in length and can be customized for your specific needs and budget. Offered as a one or two day program, this is a train the trainer program geared to help professionals develop and practice group facilitation skills. Both new and experienced group facilitators will benefit.
Facilitation Skills Training
During this intensive two day program you will learn:
• The skills and competencies and best practices of
successful facilitators
• How your skills compare through a Facilitator
Self-Assessment
• Specific techniques to conduct and debrief learning
activities
• How to identify participant learning styles and preferences
and implement facilitation techniques to accommodate
them
• To be sensitive to different phases of group formation
and how to adapt your facilitation styles accordingly
• Specific techniques on how to deal with difficult
participants
• To develop strategies to adjust on-the-fly when necessary
during the learning event
• To create a positive climate for learning
• How to manage the logistics and finer details of managing
a learning event (in-person or virtually/by phone)
You will also:
• Prepare a personal development plan including strategies
to further practice your new facilitation skills in your work.
• Receive:
• a comprehensive resource guide of web-based and
printed material
• a resource guide of facilitation exercises and tools
you can implement into your next team and
facilitation work
• 15 hours of instruction
• A group follow-up call one month after
the in-person intensive to check in on your
facilitation skills practice
Additional modules can be added to the program to address more specific needs for organizations such as:
1. Strategies for facilitating virtual teams
2. Facilitation strategies for the multi-generational
workforce(Gen Y, Gen X and Boomers)
3. Engaging Exercises for Teams and Groups for any
manager
If you are interested in finding out more about how we can deliver this program for your organization, please contact Jennifer at jennifer@potentialsrealized.com or toll free at 1-866-217-1960.
Training Essentials™ : Train the Trainer Programs:
The Training Essentials™ program is a flagship program of Potentials Realized, first rolled out in 2004. This is a scalable program for organizations, and can be offered on-site, offsite and also with e-learning or teleseminar components.
This program is for professionals within the organization who will have responsibility for training others - managers, supervisors, internal HR staff.
This is typically delivered as a 2-3 day program. Shorter and longer programs will adjust for content accordingly.
During the Training Essentials™ program, we cover:
• How to create powerful, interactive training programs,
workshops or retreats based on adult learning principles;
• Techniques for Program Design;
• Learning Styles and Group Process Issues
• Challenges for new trainers and strategies to
address them
• Selecting Engaging Exercises to Use with
Teams and Groups
• Room Set up and Multi-media Use
• Evaluation strategies
• Strategies for engaging learners, and dealing with
challenging participants
• Techniques for sustaining the learning
Customized modules can also be developed for organizations dealing with enhancing distance and e-learning initiatives.
Coaching Skills for Managers: Are you looking to equip your managers and supervisors with enhanced coaching skills? We offer a number of programs specifically geared for equipping managers and leaders with basic coaching skills, ranging from a half day workshop to a more advanced 3 day program.
For more information about our Training Essentials™, Coaching Skills for Managers and Leaders programs, please contact Jennifer at info@potentialsrealized.com or toll free at 1-866-217-1960.
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Intensive Programs:
Get Organized!
Virtual Intensive
with Hellen Buttigieg
Saturday September 27th
Your Balanced Life! Virtual Retreat
Sat. March 29 /08
(10:30-4:30 EST)
Group Program Virtual Intensive
April 8 and 15/08 (7-10pm EST)
Revitalize your Relationship Virtual Retreat
April 10 and 24, 2008
7-10pm (EST) for couples
Relationships on Fire Couples Retreat - Muskoka
May 31 and June 1 2008
Life in Balance Muskoka Retreat
Saturday
June 23, 2008
Women on Fire Retreat - Muskoka
Saturday
September 20 2008
Group Program
Facilitation Intensive (Workshops, Retreats, Group Coaching)
May 2-3, 2008
Toronto, Canada
Upcoming Teleseminars:
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Designing and Marketing
Workshops and Retreats
& Group Coaching:
Group Coaching Essentials Thursdays 10:30 - 11:45am
OR 8 - 9:15 pm (EST)
February 21, 28, March 6 and 13, 2008
Thursdays 10:30 - 11:45 (ET)
April 3, 10, 24, May 8, 2008
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Training - Workshop and Retreat Essentials:
Tuesdays 8-9:15 pm ET
May 6, 13, 20, 27, 2008
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Workshop or Retreat a Success!
Thursday April 17 (6:30- 8pm) (EST)
Engaging Exercises for Your Workshop or Retreat
(1.5 hour) (includes E-Manual)
Wednesday May 14 (8:30-10 pm)(EST)
Your Balanced Life! 90 Day Your Balanced Life Program
Business Development:
90 Days BizSuccess Program
Thursdays 12 - 1pm (EST) Starts April 10. Ends July 11, 2008 (2 group calls/month)
Leadership Development:
Stepping Into Your Leadership Capacity Virtual Retreat Program:
Monday March 31 and April 14 (7-10pm ET)
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