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The Facilitative Trainer

How to be a powerful presenter and flexible facilitator in today's workplace

Who should attend this workshop?

Managers who want to make better presentations and facilitate employee groups
Trainers who want to improve participant learning
Team Leaders & Facilitators who want to coordinate self-directed work teams
Sales Personnel who want to make their presentations more effective and interactive
Consultants who want to expand their repertoire

Objectives
(Benefits for individuals)

Reduce phobias
Analyze the audience
Prepare presentation outlines (and creatively conceal notes)
Begin with pizzazz and end with a bang
Handle tough questions with grace
Build teams without destroying individual initiative
Debrief for insights and long-term learning

Benefits for the organization

Improve employee involvement and participation
Empower self-directed work teams
Improve communication at all levels
Strengthen total quality management program
Develop articulate spokespeople for the organization

Workshop content

Presenting and facilitating-basic concepts
The complementary skills of presentation and facilitation
Content and task factors
People factors
Presentation and control factors
Personality and team factors

How to reduce phobias

Use therapeutic approaches--rational and cognitive
Use affirmative anchors and topic focus
Roleplay a model
Prepare extensively
Work with a co-presenter
Use media support
Use stress-reduction techniques

How to make effective presentations

Do front-end analyses
Prepare materials, yourself, and the group
Begin effectively
Make a smooth, interactive, and light delivery
Establish ground rules
Use techniques for handling questions
End effectively

How to facilitate effectively

Do front-end analyses
Select or modify group activity
Prepare physical facilities, yourself, and the group
Begin effectively
Monitor group process
Adjust structure, pace, and competitive level
End effectively
Use a model to aid debriefing effectiveness

Thiagi's expertise with presentation and facilitation

As a boy, to compensate for the fact that he was a physical klutz who ended up being the goalpost during soccer games, Thiagi took up storytelling. Enthralling his audiences, he was soon winning awards for outstanding oration. Later, as a political rabble rouser, he recognized the importance of facilitating people's involvement.

The skills he learned as a boy still contribute to Thiagi's professional excellence. For decades, Thiagi has made presentations, facilitated groups, and trained other people to do the same. His unique, interactive lecture mode blends presentations with facilitation and ensures enthusiastic involvement with even the most jaded group. As a sought-after speaker and workshop facilitator, he is invited back year after year to the training conferences of ISPI, ASTD Lakewood's Training, and SALT.

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