Title: Facilitation & Presentation Skills Training
Format: Virtual via Zoom
Date: April 11 or August 2, 2024
Time: 9 am- 12:00 & 1:00- 4:00 pm CST
Continuing Education Hours: 6 in IC&RC Domain 3: Communication- “Employ effective facilitation skills and apply principles of public speaking”
Price: $180
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Learning Objectives:
​​1. Facilitate effective community-based meetings.
2. Discover a simple consensus building technique.
3. Describe the three stages of a presentation.
4. Identify ways to engage an audience.

Facilitation Skills: Good facilitators possess a variety of qualities and skills. Although some people possess a natural talent for facilitation, most develop the skills through experience and with guidance from experienced facilitators.

The art and science of managing meetings and group processes, facilitation involves guiding meetings and groups while using a specific set of skills and tools. Facilitators create an environment in which group members share ideas, opinions, experiences, and expertise in order to achieve a common goal.  Great facilitation skills include; Making everyone feel comfortable and valued, Encouraging participation, Preventing and managing conflict, Listening and observing, Guiding the group, Ensuring quality decisions and Ensuring outcome-based meetings.

A skilled facilitator smooths the way for group members to brainstorm options, identify viable solutions, and develop and implement action plans. This training comes directly from reference materials found in the 2022 IC&RC Prevention Specialist Candidate Guide.

Presentation Skills: Prior proper planning prepares pronounced public presentations.

The ability to demonstrate interpersonal communication competency and communicate effectively with various audiences are two skills that every prevention specialist needs.  This workshop will help participants sharpen their presentations skills and apply principles of public speaking.

 

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