Develop facilitation skills to lead training, meetings, and team-building activities
Skills you will gain
- Facilitator Role Mastery: Understand and apply the facilitator's role in group settings for effective learning and performance.
- Group Process Management: Develop skills to manage group dynamics and ensure productive group processes.
- Facilitation Techniques: Build a comprehensive facilitation tool kit for diverse workplace needs.
- Feedback and Self-Reflection: Enhance your facilitation strengths through feedback, observation, and reflection.
- Observation Skills: Refine group observation techniques to manage behaviors and foster team collaboration.
Course Description
This course focuses on how facilitation skills are applied to create and support learning activity designed to improve individual, group, and organizational performance. Participants also learn how these skills can be applied to other organizational needs related to training: effective meetings, team-building efforts, and individual training and development programs. This experiential course gives participants an opportunity to practice facilitation skills and receive feedback on how to improve their performance.
Learning Outcomes
At the conclusion of the course, you should be able to
- Identify facilitation strengths and opportunities for development through experience, feedback, observation and reflection
- Identify and understand the facilitator's role and application in group settings
- Explain the difference between process and content as it relates to facilitation
- Understand and experience elements of the group development process
- Build a facilitation tool kit for use in the workplace
- Refine and practice group observation skills to better manage group processes
- Identify and observe the roles of group members for functional and nonfunctional behaviors
Topics Include
- The values of facilitation
- Building and maintaining a learning environment
- Group development skills
- Group observation skills
- Experimental techniques for interacting with groups
- Recording theory and practice
- Examination of key processes necessary in successfully leading learning activities (such as needs assessment, priorities and goals, conflict resolution, decision making, problem solving, and communication)
Additional Information
AI* - This course encourages students to view AI as a thinking partner to support and deepen their learning.
Professional Credit
SHRM-CP(R) or SHRM-SCP(R) 19.25 PDCs.
- Live-Online Attend via Zoom at scheduled times.
| Date | Start Time | End Time | Meeting Type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat, 09-12-2026 | 9:00am | 12:00pm | Live-Online | REMOTE |
| Sat, 09-19-2026 | 9:00am | 12:00pm | Live-Online | REMOTE |
| Sat, 09-26-2026 | 9:00am | 12:00pm | Live-Online | REMOTE |
| Sat, 10-03-2026 | 9:00am | 12:00pm | Live-Online | REMOTE |
| Sat, 10-10-2026 | 9:00am | 12:00pm | Live-Online | REMOTE |
| Sat, 10-17-2026 | 9:00am | 12:00pm | Live-Online | REMOTE |
| Sat, 10-24-2026 | 9:00am | 12:00pm | Live-Online | REMOTE |
This class is offered in an online synchronous format. Students are expected to log into this course via Canvas at the start time of scheduled meetings and participate via Zoom, for the duration of each scheduled class meeting.
To see all meeting dates, click "Full Schedule" below.
You will be granted access in Canvas to your course site and course materials approximately 24 hours prior to the published start date of the course.
Professional Credit:
HRCI(R)---PHR(R), SPHR(R) and GPHR(R) general recertification credit: 19.25 hours.
This course is valid for 19.25 PDCs for the SHRM-CP(R) or SHRM-SCP(R).
This course applies to these programs: