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Trainer: Gary Rush, IAF CPF
Coming from an IT background, Gary knows that facilitative Project Managers and Quality Analysts are more successful if they are able to guide their group through a facilitated process to accomplish their task. They produce better results that have the buy-in of all stakeholders enabling the greatest chance of success.
Gary Rush's 3-day highly interactive class teaches "how to" with an understanding of the "why" to perform as an effective Facilitator. It guides you, enabling you to plan the emotional group cycle along with the workshop process to build a product - Holistic Facilitation. This class covers People Skills and basic Process Design. It covers effective Facilitator Skills and tools necessary to facilitate the overall business management strategy into the product solutions so needed for business success - achieving support and commitment from their stakeholders. This class is ideal for Project Managers, Quality Analysts, and others working in Project Management, Six Sigma, TQM, and other quality initiatives. It helps build your professional skills and confidence. It develops Collaborative Leaders.
Until FoCuSeD™ , facilitation techniques have been either about structure or group dynamics. FoCuSeD™ contains a unique concept for developing workshop agendas with an understanding of the two parallel developments occurring, "the workshop process and emotional group cycle", that must be holistically planned to achieve useful solutions. See It's time to get FoCuSeD™ .
FoCuSeD™ provides guidance as well as specific tested workshop agendas to enable consistency in any type of workshop. FoCuSeD™ is an approach to information gathering where group workshops replace individual interviews. FoCuSeD™ fully integrates methodologies with communication and group dynamics to derive consensus-based information.
Gary believes that the process to build agendas and deal with people is the same whether you are dealing with business, technical, or any type of subject. He believes that theory is needed and teaches it to provide a background. He teaches specific "how to"; he provides detailed Facilitator and process tools and, as an IAF CPF Assessor, he covers the IAF Core Facilitator Competencies and what students need to do to achieve them. To be a successful Facilitator you learn by doing. In his class students practice 40% of the class time and receive comprehensive assessments along with a recorded session.
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PMI-R.E.P. - This class confers 24 Professional Development Units (PDUs) upon completion to those attendees who are a certified Project Management Professional (PMP)®. IIBA-E.E.P. – This class confers 24 Continuing Development Units (CDUs) to those attendees who are members of IIBA pursuing their Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) certification. We comply with the BA Body of Knowledge version 2.0. |
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PMP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc. |
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FoCuSeD™ On... Guide
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FoCuSeD™ On… Guide by Gary Rush, IAF CPF. A comprehensive reference manual in which Gary shares his step-by-step process so that students can replicate his practices.
Some Key Features are:
- Comprehensive Facilitator Tools.
- Cookbook Processes fully described using an Annotated Agenda format.
- Our unique FoCuSeD™ Holistic Parallel Process Development – this critical process enables the Facilitator to seamlessly integrate the workshop process to build a product parallel to the emotional group cycle.
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Availability & Registering
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This class is available publicly in San Jose, CA, Washington, DC, Austin, TX, and on-site anywhere in the world. Please see our Public Class Dates & Info for our current public class dates and additional information. If you have a number of people who wish to attend and are looking for more companies in your area, please contact us and we will help pull together a consortium of companies for you.
Please contact Gary for additional information and scheduling. There is a discount for 2 or more people from the same organization attending the same Public Class date.
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Class Abstract
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Duration
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Three (3) Days
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Abstract
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This class covers People Skills and basic Process Design. It covers effective Facilitator Skills and tools necessary to facilitate the overall business management strategy into the product solutions so needed for business success - achieving support and commitment from their stakeholders.
- What is Facilitation? What is the history? When is it used?
- What do Facilitators do?
- How do you deal with participants - the good, the bad, and the ugly?
- Where do diversity and thinking/learning styles fit?
- How do you design a Holistic Process for workshops?
- How do you build an effective Annotated Agenda?
- How do you fit facilitated workshops into projects?
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Objectives
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FoCuSeD™ On… is designed so that the students will be able to:
- Perform as effective FoCuSeD™ Facilitators immediately upon completion.
- Demonstrate an understanding of FoCuSeD™, its components and processes.
- Know "how to" incorporate their new Facilitator skills and tools.
- Facilitate a variety of workshops.
- Demonstrate a level of proficiency in basic facilitation skills.
- Guide others to come together and accomplish something.
- Use effective FoCuSeD™ Facilitator skills in business and in life.
- Understand the IAF Core Facilitator Competencies and what they need to do to achieve them. See Becoming an IAF CPF.
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Material
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Each student receives:
- FoCuSeD™ On… Guide by Gary Rush, IAF CPF.
- Class handouts with agenda and exercises.
- A recording of one workshop facilitated by the student.
- Confidential assessment and a class certificate of completion.
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Class Agenda
Day 1
- Introductions
- The Essence of Facilitation
- Facilitating People - Basic Facilitation Skills
- Facilitating People - Building Teams
- Facilitating People - Exploring Diversity
Day 2
- Review - Class Exercise
- Facilitating People - Managing People and Conflict
- Facilitator Tools
- Managing Process - FoCuSeD™ Holistic Process Design
- Cookbook Processes
- Specialized Processes
Day 3
- Student Workshops
- Review and Graduation of FoCuSeD™ Facilitators
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