Facilitating Collaboration
Course Features
Leadership is a conversation. How inclusive are the ones you host?
Facilitating Collaboration is a comprehensive two-day boot camp-style experience designed to help professionals master the art of group facilitation. The course introduces you to transformative and straightforward techniques that enhance collaborative impact and increase engagement among your peers and team members. By utilizing the principles of liberating structures–a collection of 33 methods that revolutionize how we meet, plan, decide, and work together–this course empowers you to harness the innovative power of your entire team. You'll gain practical insights into fostering inclusive environments that enable every voice to be heard and valued.
Participants will learn how to build diverse gatherings that embrace varied perspectives in a cost-effective manner, fostering self-organization that outshines traditional management styles. You'll develop skills to facilitate dialogues that bring together diverse stakeholders and lead to actionable consensus, while also learning to handle challenging conversations that dismantle silos and promote trust. By connecting organizational networks through rapid information flows, you'll increase transparency across business units and enhance collaboration.
Facilitating Collaboration is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of collaboration to improve their teams and organizations. Whether you're a teacher, researcher, manager, or consultant, this course offers practical strategies for breaking down barriers, encouraging creative problem-solving, and aligning teams towards shared goals. Participants will leave equipped with tools to redesign their meetings, distribute power more equitably, and foster an environment where collaboration thrives.
Program Details
Who should attend
- Teachers and trainers Interested in designing impactful learning experiences.
- Researchers aiming to prioritize people in their work.
- Team leaders looking to guide stakeholders toward the best outcomes.
- Chiefs of staff wanting to support and align initiatives across departments.
- Program and project managers eager to encourage collaboration across teams and projects.
- Product managers seeking to foster business growth by aligning development teams.
- Consultants aiming to deliver exceptional consulting to their clients.
- Creatives and agile practitioners wishing to guide team discussions and resolve conflicts.
What you will learn
- Diversity in gatherings: Strategies to increase the diversity of gatherings by engaging a range of people and perspectives cost-effectively.
- Self-organization: Showcase tangible examples of how self-organization can outperform traditional methods by reducing excessive control.
- Facilitation of dialogue: Facilitate dialogue that unites diverse people and leads to a common action agenda.
- Difficult conversations: Host challenging conversations that dismantle silos and foster trust and alignment.
- Transparency across units: Strategies to enhance transparency between business units by promoting rapid and reciprocal information flows.
- Redistribution of power: Approaches to redistribute power and amplify voices in meetings by engaging and empowering everyone.
Faculty
Erik Helzer, PhD
Executive Education faculty, Carey Business School
Erik Helzer, PhD, develops and applies psychological, organizational, and behavioral science insights to understand the cultivation of practical wisdom for leading in organizations. His research focuses on three facets of practical wisdom: ethical behavior and moral judgment, self-knowledge, and personal agency and adjustment. He is an associate professor of management and organizations at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA.
Adriano Pianesi, MBA
Adjunct Professor, Carey Business School
Adriano Pianesi has 20 years of leadership development, team coaching, and change experience built on capacity development, possibility thinking, and sound strategy. A member of the Society for Organizational Learning, Pianesi holds an MBA in Communication and Group Dynamics from the University of Milan. Pianesi trained at Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School, and the Art of Hosting, where he refined his repertoire of experiential and innovative teaching practices. His consulting practice has helped leaders work for change by harnessing the powers of conflict, diversity, and complexity. Among his clients are Microsoft, Philip Morris International, the World Bank Group, Rotary International, Pan-American Health Organization, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, U.S. Marine Corps.