Training · Workshop & facilitation methods
Training in interactive workshop and facilitation methods
Would you like to expand your methods toolkit with interactive workshop and facilitation methods, activating and engaging moderation techniques? Are you looking for a facilitation training to improve your moderation skills? In our methods trainings for better workshop moderation, you will learn the best activating facilitation techniques and interactive formats that help you better involve and engage participants, and use well-thought-out moderation formats to generate feedback, develop action plans, and create consensus.
Suitable Methods and Facilitation Techniques for Every Purpose
In our proven trainings on facilitation methods you will learn,
- how to use interactive workshop formats with confidence
- proven formats for every purpose
- which methods suit which objective
- results-oriented management of groups of any size (small, medium and large groups)
- individual elements that trigger interaction, and complete workshop designs with which you get interaction and lively discussion going
- how to combine individual methodological elements into new, effective interactive workshop formats
Content of our Facilitation Methods Training
Here is an extract from our proven training content – we always train to fit your requirements:
The best start:
- Activating participants, "preparing the ground"
Methods for developing strategies and action plans
- Formats for generating ideas and developing strategies - for beginners, advanced users and professionals
- Creating action plans and develop strategies
- Bringing about decisions
- Collecting, structuring and utilising the knowledge and experience of the participants,
Analysing risks
- Analysing risks and initiating projects
Engaging formats for large, medium and small groups
- Efficient and targeted work in medium, large and very large groups
- Skilfully manage groups of any size with well-placed facilitation techniques
Activating settings
- Making discussions interactive
- purposefully using the knowledge and experience of many
Exchanging experiences
- Sharing knowledge and experience
Small and large formats
- Methods to make results from many small groups visible and usable even under time pressure
- Skillfully manage discussions in all group sizes (from small to very large) and routinely secure results
Generate feedback
- Generate feedback and use it as a resource for improvements
Gathering opinions and making them usable
- "Highlights" and short opinion polls
Developing good questions
- Proven and effective stimulus questions for every purpose
Meta formats
- 4 basic steps to "save" every workshop and every session
Lecture-style presentation
- How to liven up "frontal input" and lead exciting, lively discussions from presentations ("useful methods and tools")
Initiating and evaluating projects
- Methods for reviewing, evaluating, and improving project ideas and action plans
Fill your methods toolkit!
- Methods matrix: Which method is suitable for which purpose? ("*quick reference guide*")
- Tips and criteria for selecting the right workshop method
Developing lively formats for your own facilitations
- Develop your own formats safely and use them skillfully for any objective
Benefits of our Methods Trainings and Seminars
- Methods that work
- Our methods are tried and tested, current and effective. Guaranteed.
- Current knowledge
- We are aware of current method trends and know from practice which methodological variations achieve which effects.
- A wide range of methods
- By the end of the training you can use your newly acquired method toolkit to develop your own formats for any purpose.
- Plenty of solid practical tips
- So that you can easily apply the methods yourself afterwards.
- Thorough
- You learn to apply interactive formats confidently and ready for use.
- Close to practice
- You gain confidence in applying them and know how to navigate difficult situations skilfully in future.
- Fast learning
- We use the interactive methods in the seminar itself when conveying knowledge. Thanks to our interactive learning settings you learn on two levels: methodologically and in terms of content.
- Experienced trainers and consultants
- Our trainers apply these methods virtually "daily" in their professions as consultants. So we are all seasoned practitioners and are happy to share our knowledge.
Our approach
This is how we ensure the best training quality :
Detailed order clarification:
Our in-house training courses are not mass-produced: we get to know our target group, hold preliminary discussions and always adapt our training content very precisely to your requirements.
High practical value
We look into the participants' roles, tasks and prior experience. That way we always deliver relevant knowledge. We do not teach methods you already know. So we use the available training time to the full for your gain in knowledge and insight.
Interactive training setting:
We don't like frontal lectures and long PowerPoints. Concise method inputs are always followed by concrete application and transfer. Interaction is not just a phrase for us, but lived (and loved) practice.
Always up-to-date methodological knowledge:
Our core business is consulting. We don't primarily learn from books, but above all through practical application. Benefit from our practical experiences!
Evaluation and continuous development of our training formats:
We are part of a lively community of dedicated consultants and application practitioners and are constantly enhancing our method training courses.
Our training courses are for you if you...
- regularly facilitate meetings, workshops and seminars in which the participants contribute actively – rather than just listening passively
- want to extend the usual workshop formats of presentation and discussion with interactive elements
- want to make sure that all participants contribute and take part in the discussion with commitment
- want to ensure that it is not always only the opinion leaders and the usual suspects who contribute, but that everyone takes part in the discussions
- want decisions, strategies and action plans to rest on everyone's experience, knowledge and judgement, and not on the opinion leadership of a few
- want to avoid time-consuming digressions in discussions and instead discuss efficiently and with as many relevant perspectives and points of view as possible
- want the discussion culture in your division / team / company to change in future so that everyone brings their knowledge to the table and decisions are made on the basis of valid and comprehensive information
Why you should take part in our facilitation training
- You extend your personal method toolkit
- Whoever asks the questions and chairs the discussion is the one who leads.
- You acquire important leadership and facilitation skills that you can use every day as a specialist or a manager – in your current and your future job
- We know what we are talking about: we have tested every method for fitness for purpose and we use them regularly in our consulting practice.
- Useful variations and extensions: as experienced practitioners we often adapt methods to our clients' objectives and starting points. With us you benefit from these useful tips and tricks.
- Interactive teaching of methods (blended learning approach): in our workshop and methods training we apply the methods as we go.
- A protected learning environment: plenty of opportunities to reflect and to practise within our training.
Tailor-made in-house training courses and seminars
Not found the right format or method yet? No problem. We always train to fit and adapt our training content individually to every need and every target audience. Just ask us – initial consultations are always free and without obligation.
Free initial consultation
Florian Grolman, Managing Consultant at initio Organisationsberatung
- Together we look at your challenge
- Kalkulation der anfallenden Kosten
- If you are interested in going further, we produce an outline proposal
- Costing of the costs involved
Excerpt from our participant lists
Many of our seminar participants come from the following areas:
- Internal consultants and trainers from SMEs and large corporations
- Staff from consultancies (train-the-trainer seminars)
- Staff from event agencies who want to extend their method toolkit
- Staff responsible for committee meetings and trade fair appearances
- Staff from associations and other organisations where joint decision-making and building consensus are part of daily business
- Specialists with management responsibilities
- Team leaders
- Specialists and managers who want to extend their facilitation skills, and with them their leadership skills
Money back guarantee
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What our clients say
What clients say about working with us
A very helpful, well-run workshop. The results served us well through the restructuring phase too.
It was striking how much came out of our workshop. That was outstanding.
Many thanks again for the excellent collaboration, the organisation and the very good workshop results.
I am very happy with the consulting. The workshop moved us a long way forward. Thank you.
You prepared our workshop thoroughly and precisely. Both the method and the facilitation fitted our objectives very well. We were able to carry on working very successfully with the results. Many thanks.
Four days of workshop and still playful, creative, inspiring and well structured, with good methodology. Thoroughly recommended.
Thanks again for the excellent workshop — we have already started putting the first ideas into practice, and enjoying it.
Rarely have I been given a seminar so well structured and so well put together in terms of content.
The methods training was very helpful. We can warmly recommend initio Organisationsberatung for future seminars.
The seminar was very helpful and will stay with me for weeks and months.
The training was enjoyable and, above all, it moved us forward and inspired us. Thank you for that.
I thoroughly enjoyed working with you, personally and professionally, and it was a great pleasure to run this workshop with you.
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