Different situations will require different leadership styles, and leaders need to be able to select the right style at the right time. But the over-riding imperative is to move from compliance-based to high-performance commitment-based organizations, and there is therefore a need for different, more collaborative responses to situations that leaders face in their organizations. Effective leaders in the 21st century will change their philosophy from “command and control” to Facilitative Leadership, in which the key skills are those of team and group facilitation, and the role is one of a coach, partner and inspiration.

• Learn and apply the skills of facilitative leadership to enhance individual and work team performance
• Facilitate team meetings and individual performance issues effectively
• Improve productivity, quality and innovation in your organization
• Lead organizational change more effectively
• Analyze and recognize your strengths/weaknesses in facilitative leadership and formulate a personal development plan

Anyone in an organization can become a facilitative leader, even someone who has no supervisory authority. Traditionally, the influence of a manager and traditional leader stems largely from formal authority. But a facilitative leader's influence stems largely from the ability to help others accomplish what they want to accomplish."

This program will be beneficial for all who lead or aspire to lead projects and teams at any level in an organization, or anyone who facilitates improvement groups. Participants who attend this program will learn the benefits of facilitative leadership for their organization, their customers, their staff, and themselves.

Module I: Introduction – The Nature and Benefits of Facilitative Leadership

• Identify the differences between leaders and managers
• Analyze the need for situational leadership
• Understand your preferred style, approach and source of power in leadership
• Learn the principles and philosophy of facilitative leadership
• Appreciate the benefits of moving from a philosophy of ‘Command and Control’ to Facilitative Leadership
• Examine examples of successful leaders who have used a facilitative style
• The four key skills of facilitative leadership

Module II: Facilitating Team Meetings 

• Learn how to encourage and facilitate participation from team members
• Develop effective listening and questioning skills
• Understand and practice appropriate body language
• Identify key process skills to enable teams to priorities, reach consensus and produce results
• Help teams make decisions and solve problems
• Enable team members to reflect on and improve their own meetings

Module III: Handling Difficult Team Members 

• Identify difficult behaviors and their consequences for the team
• Learn strategies for handling difficult team members and keep team effectiveness on track
• Understand typical feedback mistakes and how to deliver it effectively to encourage personal change
• Identify opportunities for coaching and key skills

Module V: Facilitating Teams to Use Tools to Analyze and Solve Problems 

• Principles of Total Quality Management
• How to encourage a culture of continuous improvement, creativity and innovation
• Facilitating problem-solving and improvement groups
• Problem Solving tools and how to use them
• The skills of facilitating brainstorming, flowcharts, fishbone analysis and pareto charts
• Role-modeling to develop facilitative leadership skills in others

Module VI: Developing Team Effectiveness 

• Identify the benefits of and blockages to effective teamwork
• Analyze your own team’s effectiveness
• Examine the stages of team development and where your team is now
• Identify strategies for moving the team to the next stage of development
• Help the team to address weaknesses and recognise and harness strengths

Module VII: Examine blockages to facilitative leadership and develop solutions 

• Understand the importance of team members’ perceptions and how to manage them
• Become a role model of facilitative leadership for others
• Develop appropriate behaviors to enhance trust, respect and credibility
• Analyze the influence of national cultural differences on leadership and teamwork, and how these affect facilitative leadership and follower ship
• Identify methods to facilitate and develop international, multi-cultural teams

Module VIII: Developing your own facilitative Leadership competence 

• Examine your own facilitative leadership capability and development needs
• Methods to help you to understand others’ perceptions of your strengths and weaknesses
• Develop Your Facilitative Leadership Development Plan
• Identify further opportunities for practice, feedback and improvement

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.