Course D: Coaching and facilitation as a lever for efficiency in projects

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How to promote effective and efficient project meetings
and workshops and foster your leadership skills

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Course vision
To facilitate a project meeting means to navigate the communication and interaction processes that lead to agreed-upon objectives and solutions in a way that encourages participation and productivity.To facilitate is an essential role of project managers. The more complex the situation is, the more difficult it is to steer a meeting. Facilitation helps to reduce complexity and to keep the thread.Facilitation supports a whole group to find good solutions. Coaching supports a single person to come to new perspectives, ideas or solutions. You can also use coaching as a project manager to develop the abilities of your team members; it is a strong leadership competence.This course is a chance to develop your skills in facilitation and coaching, as an expedient project manager, as project director or as an expert providing facilitation as part of your profession.

Training method
The course includes plenary sessions as well as interactive group sessions. The whole course follows a process-oriented structure: input – practice – feedback. The instructors will give basic information and lead discussions, reflections and exchange of experiences among the participants, but the main emphasis is practical training during group work.The roles of project coach and project facilitator will be practiced during the group sessions, and every participant will receive his/her personal feedback.

Training objectives
As a participant you will learn to:

  1. Understand the concept of project facilitation and coaching.
  2. Identify situations where a project facilitator and where a coach is needed.
  3. Facilitate the problem-solving process of a team.
  4. Design facilitation and coaching processes.
  5. Apply helpful communication tools in typical project situations.
    Such as clarification of project objectives, coaching of project team members and leading team meetings.
  6. Promote the team development process.
    Including being able to involve the team members in the project process and help navigate the processes.
  7. Reflect on and increase your own competences in facilitation and coaching.

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Faculty:

Merle Runge

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Consulting for Organizational and
Personnel Development Germany

 

Brigitte Schaden

Managing Director and
Chief Consultant,
Chairman of
Project Management Austria,
IPMA Chairman
Austria