
Teams365 Team Leadership Foundations Course:
Facilitation Skills Foundations
This Teams365 module explores facilitation skills foundations. Team leaders play key roles in support, providing direction, planning and implementation. This four-part program looks at equipping team leaders with foundational skills in facilitation. The program consists of four one hour calls held on a bridgeline, led by author and Teams365 master facilitator and author Jennifer Britton. This is one of eight online learning courses around the foundations of Team Leadership including Coaching Skills for Leaders, Stepping into YOUR Leadership, Virtual Team Leadership Foundations, and Emotional Intelligence.
The Teams365 Facilitation Skills Foundations program is designed for leaders who are looking to enhance their facilitation skills at meetings, or with their teams. The Teams365 Facilitation Skills foundation module provides leaders with the essentials around facilitation - what facilitation is, and skills and tools they can incorporate into meetings and dialogue with teams, stakeholders and others. The program also includes a Facilitation Skills Self-Assessment to support you identifying your strengths in facilitation as well as areas which require development.
The program consists of four weekly calls on foundational facilitation skills including:
Module 1: Facilitation Skills Foundations:
What is Facilitation?
When do you need to facilitate?
Essential Stages of a Group Facilitation
How groups and teams develop
Fieldwork: Facilitation Skills Self-Assessment
Module 2 - Facilitation Toolbox -Part 1
Decision Making Tools -
Creating a Positive Environment for Dialogue
Keeping Meetings on Track
Module 3 - Facilitation Toolbox - Part 2
Problem Solving Tools
Difficult Participants
Module 4 - Facilitation Toolbox - Part 3
Strategic Planning
Virtual Meetings and Conference Calls
Wrap up and closure
This module is part of the Teams365 Team Leaders Foundations program. Other modules include Stepping Into Your Leadership, Coaching Skills for Leaders, Time Management Foundations, Team Leadership Foundations. This module can be taken in conjunction with, or separate to, the Teams 365 Coaching Group.
For a more in-depth learning experience around facilitation you may want to consider the Two-Day Facilitation Skills Intensive program, also delivered by Potentials Realized. Learn more about this two day in-person or virtual learning event at FacilitationSkillsIntensive.com.
Facilitation Skills Foundations
This Teams365 module explores facilitation skills foundations. Team leaders play key roles in support, providing direction, planning and implementation. This four-part program looks at equipping team leaders with foundational skills in facilitation. The program consists of four one hour calls held on a bridgeline, led by author and Teams365 master facilitator and author Jennifer Britton. This is one of eight online learning courses around the foundations of Team Leadership including Coaching Skills for Leaders, Stepping into YOUR Leadership, Virtual Team Leadership Foundations, and Emotional Intelligence.
The Teams365 Facilitation Skills Foundations program is designed for leaders who are looking to enhance their facilitation skills at meetings, or with their teams. The Teams365 Facilitation Skills foundation module provides leaders with the essentials around facilitation - what facilitation is, and skills and tools they can incorporate into meetings and dialogue with teams, stakeholders and others. The program also includes a Facilitation Skills Self-Assessment to support you identifying your strengths in facilitation as well as areas which require development.
The program consists of four weekly calls on foundational facilitation skills including:
Module 1: Facilitation Skills Foundations:
What is Facilitation?
When do you need to facilitate?
Essential Stages of a Group Facilitation
How groups and teams develop
Fieldwork: Facilitation Skills Self-Assessment
Module 2 - Facilitation Toolbox -Part 1
Decision Making Tools -
Creating a Positive Environment for Dialogue
Keeping Meetings on Track
Module 3 - Facilitation Toolbox - Part 2
Problem Solving Tools
Difficult Participants
Module 4 - Facilitation Toolbox - Part 3
Strategic Planning
Virtual Meetings and Conference Calls
Wrap up and closure
This module is part of the Teams365 Team Leaders Foundations program. Other modules include Stepping Into Your Leadership, Coaching Skills for Leaders, Time Management Foundations, Team Leadership Foundations. This module can be taken in conjunction with, or separate to, the Teams 365 Coaching Group.
For a more in-depth learning experience around facilitation you may want to consider the Two-Day Facilitation Skills Intensive program, also delivered by Potentials Realized. Learn more about this two day in-person or virtual learning event at FacilitationSkillsIntensive.com.

The program is facilitated by Jennifer Britton, host of the Teams365 blog. Jennifer is the founder of Potentials Realized, a performance improvement company focusing on leadership and teamwork. Jennifer is a former team leader with the United Nations, and has led global, virtual and multicultural teams. For the last 10 years, through Potentials Realized, she has supported hundreds of teams and leaders expand their skills and insights through engaging training, coaching and facilitated sessions. Jenn is known for her expertise in the area of group and teamwork and is the author of Effective Group Coaching (Wiley, 2009) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching(Jossey-Bass,2013). Both books have been adopted by coach training schools and university programs to train new generations of professional coaches.
Visit our main site at Potentials Realized, and the daily tips for team leaders at the Teams365 blog.
Contact Jennifer by email or phone at (416)996-8326.
Visit our main site at Potentials Realized, and the daily tips for team leaders at the Teams365 blog.
Contact Jennifer by email or phone at (416)996-8326.