Facilitation Skills Lab
Thursday, September 28, 2023, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Category: General Education
e-Learning powered by Association Societies Alliance Good facilitation skills help all parties in negotiations, building ideas and having effective discussions. Improving these skills is what this educational series, “Strengthen Your Facilitation Skills: Enhancing Your Impact as an Association Professional” aims to help you do. Facilitation skills can elevate quiet voices, seek new beneficial outcomes or harness creativity that leads to better results. Honing and applying focused facilitator skills will help you do all these things and more. Created by the Alliance Learning Collective*, this series will introduce you to the role and techniques of effective facilitation while arming you with opportunities to practice and hone these facilitation skills – including probing, bridging, synthesizing and reflective listening. What’s more is you’ll receive feedback on how you can improve. Over the course of the three-session series, participants will:
Registration: $289 for this three-part series
CAE Hours: 1.5 CAE Hour per session, for a total of 4.5 CAE Hours for the full program Learning Objectives for Each 90-minute Module Module 1 – Sept. 28, 2023 (1:30-3 p.m. Eastern; 10:30 a.m. to noon, Pacific)
Module 2 – October 12, 2023 (1:30-3 p.m. Eastern; 10:30 a.m. to noon, Pacific)
Module 3 - October 26, 2023 (1:30-3 p.m. Eastern; 10:30 a.m. to noon, Pacific)
In preparation for this course, participants will be asked to:
About the Facilitator: James S. DeLizia, CAE James S. DeLizia, CAE is principal of DeLizia Consulting Services, a management consulting firm specializing in facilitation, design and consultation in the areas of leadership and organizational development, governance, and all forms of group process, including planning, consensus-building and critical and creative thinking. Jim has been providing consultative services to non-profit professional, trade and philanthropic organizations as well as public entities for over 25 years, and started his career as an association staff member. In addition to numerous US-based clients, his work has extended to supporting the development of associations internationally, including Eastern Europe. Jim has been an active leader in his professional societies, the American Society of Association Executives and the California Society of Association Executives, where he has served on the board of directors, authored best-selling publications and is a frequent presenter on facilitation, leadership, strategic planning and governance. Jim has a master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Maryland. He is a certified focus group facilitator, has been trained in negotiation techniques through the Harvard Negotiation Project, and a Certified Association Executive (CAE) designee since 1990. *About the Alliance Learning Collective (ALC) The ALC is a collaboration between six Societies of Associations Executives to bring high quality educational opportunities to association professionals across the U.S. They are members of the Association Societies Alliance. Powered by CE21: The ALC works in partnership with CE21 Contact: Mark McSweeney, CAE, Association Societies Alliance ([email protected]) |