Potentials Realized offers a range of facilitation services for organizations and groups. We provide both process facilitation and content facilitation services. Employing external facilitation services may be useful to consider for your next focus group, team retreat or organizational strategic planning sessions. Several of our programs are also offered to build the facilitation and training capacity of your own staff members. Please visit our dedicated site FacilitationSkillsIntensive.com which will provide you with more information about our public and in-house facilitation skills training offerings.
Examples of past facilitation services include:
Clients who have benefited from our facilitation services include:
Looking to bring in an external facilitator so you can focus and participate in the process yourself? Contact Jennifer Britton at: [email protected] or (416)996-8326 to discuss your needs.
If you are planning an upcoming staff retreat, download our retreat planning checklist here.
Train the Trainer and Facilitation Skills Training:
Potentials Realized also offer strain-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 - 2days 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. We offer programs for in person facilitation as well as the Virtual Facilitation Skills Intensive which is geared to those needing to facilitate in the virtual domain (conference calls, webinars, virtual training). Both new and experienced group facilitators will benefit.
“Jenn promises you the basics of facilitation and over delivers with mountains of examples, resources and skills. A must!” – Michelle Rothstein
“Really appreciated the opportunity to give a presentation – that was a great learning experience”
“Useful for skills with coaching and facilitation. For all levels of experience. Well done, greatly executed” – Sarah Owen
Facilitation Skills Intensive
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.
Participants 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
Contact Jennifer today by phone at (416)996-TEAM (8326) or by email to inquire how this program can be brought to your organization.
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
- Focus groups for employee engagement, learning strategies, new leaders
- Employee Focus Group Facilitation
- Lunch and Learn Sessions
- Coaching and Mentoring Skills Training (Train the Trainer) in insurance, financial services and global organizations
Clients who have benefited from our facilitation services include:
- Labrador Iron Mines
- St. Joseph's Health Centre Foundation
- CDI College
- UNV, UN Mission to Haiti
- Ontario Provincial Police
- Toronto CFA Society
- Toronto Arab Community Center
- Toronto Youth Cabinet
Looking to bring in an external facilitator so you can focus and participate in the process yourself? Contact Jennifer Britton at: [email protected] or (416)996-8326 to discuss your needs.
If you are planning an upcoming staff retreat, download our retreat planning checklist here.
Train the Trainer and Facilitation Skills Training:
Potentials Realized also offer strain-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 - 2days 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. We offer programs for in person facilitation as well as the Virtual Facilitation Skills Intensive which is geared to those needing to facilitate in the virtual domain (conference calls, webinars, virtual training). Both new and experienced group facilitators will benefit.
“Jenn promises you the basics of facilitation and over delivers with mountains of examples, resources and skills. A must!” – Michelle Rothstein
“Really appreciated the opportunity to give a presentation – that was a great learning experience”
“Useful for skills with coaching and facilitation. For all levels of experience. Well done, greatly executed” – Sarah Owen
Facilitation Skills Intensive
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.
Participants 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
Contact Jennifer today by phone at (416)996-TEAM (8326) or by email to inquire how this program can be brought to your organization.
