Facilitation
Why Skills Boosters
Elevate your team’s potential with Skills Booster classes. These concise, high-impact sessions offer a cost-effective strategy to enhance employee capabilities, drive productivity, and foster long-term engagement. Designed to address specific skill gaps and provide upskilling opportunities, Skills Boosters ensure your workforce remains agile and competitive in an ever-evolving market.
Beyond cost savings, training initiatives like Skills Boosters play a pivotal role in reducing employee turnover—a critical issue that costs U.S. businesses approximately $11 billion annually. By providing career development opportunities, organizations can reduce turnover, strengthen team morale, and cultivate loyalty while supporting succession planning.
- Boost Productivity: Equip your team with practical strategies and insights to work smarter, not harder.
- Reduce Costs: Avoid the significant expenses of recruiting and onboarding by developing in-house talent.
- Foster Engagement: Show your commitment to employee growth and satisfaction, increasing retention and motivation.
- Enhance Innovation: Enable teams to leverage the latest tools and methodologies, from Microsoft Copilot to advanced Agile practices.
Facilitation Description
Step up your leadership game with our course, now tailored for a general audience, including Team Leaders, Project Managers, Scrum Masters, and any Team Member looking to enhance their facilitation skills. This course will refine your ability to lead discussions, make decisions, and drive team engagement. Understanding and applying essential facilitation techniques and decision-making styles will teach you to lead retrospectives that review past sprints and identify opportunities for improvement.
Objectives
- Fundamentals of Effective Facilitation: Understand the essential skills and behaviors needed to be an effective facilitator in any team setting.
- Encouraging Participation and Commitment: Learn strategies to ensure all team members actively participate and commit to the team’s goals.
- Decision-Making Styles: Explore the three core decision-making styles—command, consultative, and consensus—and when to apply each for optimal results.
- Mastering Retrospectives: Gain the skills to facilitate retrospectives that effectively analyze past sprints and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Driving Continuous Improvement: Learn how to use retrospectives to support continuous development, helping your team evolve and improve its performance continuously.
Additional Skills Booster Courses
- Microsoft 365 Copilot: Enhance your productivity across Microsoft applications with AI-powered tools.
- ChatGPT: Dive into the world of AI and learn to optimize content creation, coding, and more with ChatGPT.
- Agile, Scrum, Kanban: Revisit the fundamentals of Agile methodologies and discover advanced strategies for project success.
- Product Backlog, Epics, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria: Master managing and refining your product backlog for clearer communication and predictable delivery.
- Outcomes vs. Outputs: Focus on value-driven project management to ensure that your efforts meet strategic business objectives.
- Metrics: Utilize Agile metrics to track progress, forecast outcomes, and enhance team performance.
- Jira: Get hands-on with Jira to manage projects and tasks effectively, improving oversight and alignment with organizational goals.
- Prioritization and Estimation: Sharpen your skills in prioritizing tasks and estimating efforts to better manage project timelines and resources.
- Facilitation: Boost your facilitation skills to lead more effective meetings and drive meaningful project retrospectives.
- Scaling Agile: Explore strategies to scale Agile practices across multiple teams or departments effectively.
- The Pizza Game – Virtual Agile Team Building: Engage in a virtual team-building activity to foster collaboration and reinforce Agile principles in a fun, interactive setting.