Teleclasses
at Facilitator U
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:
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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. |
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Motivational Speakers: Make the Shift From Charismatic to Catalytic
At times the strengths of dynamic, high energy presenters can get in
the way of their group’s progress.
In this pre-recorded module, you'll learn 3 skills that you can use without surrendering your strengths as a presenter to empower your audience. I also model being a listener as much as a speaker during this call, so that you are engaged and participating as much as I am. Click here for details. |
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 Facilitating Offline Partner Activities
This pre-recorded module offers listeners the experience of an Offline Partner Activity (OFA). In this one-hour course, participants participate in a live OFA, and learn the pitfalls and procedures for effectively setting up and facilitating one themselves. Click here for full details.
We’ve had great success pairing people up into groups of two in many of our teleclasses. Participants often comment that this is one of the most useful things they learn in our classes and are often surprised at how easy and effective these activities can be if you know how to set them up and run them. Click here for details. |
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 Facilitating the Experiential Learning Cycle
As teachers and trainers, you've probably noticed that people really learn better through "experience" than by simply listening to talk about theory or practice. For almost any situation, you can develop an experience to either instruct or model the learning you're trying to facilitate.
A learning facilitation model I've used consistently is one called the "Kolb Learning Cycle". I find this cycle very useful in the design and presentation of my trainings, both F2F and virtual. It starts by providing an experience, the processing of which can elicit learning on all levels--physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual--and automatically accommodates the different perceptual and processing styles without having to perform
up front assessments. Click here for details
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 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. |
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 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.
See details at the end of this issue. 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. |
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 Transforming
Conflict in the Workplace
Would
you be a more effective facilitator or leader with
a more solid base of conflict resolution skills under
your belt? 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.
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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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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 Putting
Out Brush Fires... How to intervene in difficult group
situations
Do 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 |
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 Appreciative
Inquiry
This
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. |
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Intervene
With Confidence
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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. |
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 Managing
People You Rarely See
Do you need to get rapid results from people collaborating
across 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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us with your comments. Thanks for
your interest! |
