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Teleclasses

Self-Guided Facilitation Training Courses

Teleclasses are a “virtual classroom” where people from many parts of the world can show up on our telephone conference line at the same time to learn and share together. Participating in teleclasses is fun, easy
and convenient. Our teleclasses are typically 5-hours courses conducted daily during the workweek. Interviews
in our Expert Series are one-hour long.

All of our classes are recorded and come packaged with downloadable learning guides. Therefore, if
you miss a live offering of a teleclass or interview, you may purchase the audio recording and learning guide.
Just click on the class you are interested in below and select the format you desire. Our formats are typically in MP3 format.

There are many benefits to learning in this way:

• No travel time.
• No parking fees.
• A clearer focus than many lectures.
• Ability to pick and choose what sessions to attend at the last minute.
• The ability to take notes on your computer.
• Doesn’t interrupt your travel schedule.
• Comfort of working in your own space.
• Downloading notes and handouts from the web site.
• Ability to easily adopt electronic notes for your own personal use and store them electronically.

Have another course in mind? We’re always creating new ones and we’re on the look out for what you need. Please let us know! Contact us and tell us what you’re after.
Random Acts of Facilitation
This class covers 25 discrete facilitative actions you can take to empower and move groups forward. This course is for facilitators at any level or group members that simply want to know more about facilitation so that they can make the groups they are a part of more effective. Being discrete acts of facilitation, they also lend themselves to being taught to your group members who desire to become more self-facilitative. If you’d like to learn this material at your own pace and on your own schedule, you can purchase the real audio version of this teleclass complete with the learning guide. Click here for details.
Facilitating at a Distance… the Essentials of
Teleclass & Virtual Meeting Facilitation
This class is for those of you wanting to offer a teleclass but don’t feel you have all the skills and knowledge you need to do so, or for managers working with distributed teams that require you to facilitate virtual meetings. This class will teach you methods, skills, and processes to employ this inexpensive way to train, collaborate, and problem-solve using Teleclasses and Virtual Meetings. Remove the fear and uncertainty of teleclass/virtual meeting design and facilitation. Click here for details.
Transforming Conflict in the Workplace  

All organizations and relationships encounter conflict. It’s what we do with it that makes all the difference in the world.In this class you will learn conflict resolution skills for facilitative leaders by exploring and evaluating your own styles and personal responses conflict, learning and practicing conflict resolution strategies in the context of group facilitation, and exploring how you can implement conflict resolution and staff facilitation programs within organizations. Click here for details.
The Improvisational Facilitator

This highly experiential teleclass presents powerful, practical improv techniques you can use to immediately enhance your facilitation, training, and group leadership skills. This class is very interactive and uses many innovative experiential activities that will surely surprise you. You’ll learn ways to become a better facilitator by experimenting with improv techniques, and increase your confidence and creativity to make your plan become more flexible and spontaneous. Click here for details.
Secrets to Designing Dynamic Workshops from Scratch 

This 5-day teleclass will walk you through the building blocks of designing and delivering effective experiential workshops. It will cover all the elements of workshop design using a simple, well-organized, and proven approach. You’ll have the opportunity in this class to complete the design of your own workshop with the help of fellow students and instructors. If you’d like to learn this material at your own pace and on your own schedule, you can purchase the real audio version of this teleclass complete with the learning guide. Click here for details.
 Becoming a Learning Facilitator

Make the shift from teaching to “Learning Facilitation.” This course explores how to make the leap from conventional teaching approaches to a new perspective based on the learner and incorporating facilitation skills and philosophy into the learning environment. If you’d like to learn this material at your own pace and on your own schedule, you can purchase the real audio or CD versions of this teleclass complete with the learning guide. Click here for details.
Putting Out Brush Fires… How to intervene in difficult group
situationsDo nonstop talkers, silent groups or dramatic conflicts ever knock your meetings off track? These meeting situations take a toll on a group’s ability to work together and cost time and money. This 5 hour teleclass, taught by Dee Kelsey and Pam Plumb, authors of Great Meetings! Great Results, will increase your ability to know when and how to intervene effectively in difficult situations to get your meetings back on track. You will find the course Putting out Brush Fires: Intervening in Difficult Situations to be highly interactive. Each class includes a short content presentation, discussion, demonstration, participant exercise, debrief, and discussion of application. This course if for anyone who facilitates, manages, teaches, mediates, coaches, counsels, directs any group. Click here for details.
Appreciative InquiryThis class covers a facilitation strategy for intentional change that identifies the best of “what is” in order to pursue dreams and possibilities of “what could be.” Within these classes we will explore the four dynamics of AI: Discovery, Dream, Design and Delivery. Plan to bring with you the challenges you have encountered or are experiencing as we will encourage discussion of specific situations in which Appreciate Inquiry might be applied. If you’d like to learn this material at your own pace and on your own schedule, you can purchase the real audio version of this teleclass complete with the learning guide. Click here for details.
Intervene With Confidence
Group “Intervention” is one of the most challenging skills to master as a facilitator. This 5-day teleclass is for anyone who plays a facilitative or leadership role in a group and will explore practical ways to effectively intervene on individual and group behaviors to realign, refocus, challenge, or protect group process. This class will benefit group facilitators, trainers, life coaches, teachers, business and community leaders, and managers, whatever level of skill they have in group facilitation. Click here for details.
Managing People You Rarely See

Do you need to get rapid results from people collaborating aross multiple locations?This class will discuss managing remote relationships and frameworks for successfully managing projects across large distances. There are issues created by the geographic distance between team members. But those issues can be overcome, and in fact, the potential of a distance team to accomplish amazing feats far outweighs any logistical liabilities. The course contains consolidated information packed into a five-hour format. Click here for details.

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