Who Benefits from ICAA Leadership Training
Employers often invite ICA Associates Inc. to train dozens or even hundreds of staff. Sometimes, training is related to ongoing consulting work because the organization is trying to become more collaborative. Here are some examples:
- Public Health Departments train all their nursing staff to become facilitators of health promotion groups because one-on-one counseling is too slow to have a population-scale impact.
- Indigenous community organizations train all their younger members to facilitate because it dramatically boosts engagement of all ages and backgrounds in a style that aligns with community values. This helps them to become future leaders.
- Quasi-governmental organizations train all their planning staff to facilitate participatory project management and teamwork. This is because the old command-and-control style of management alienated new generations of employees, who see themselves as valuable equals and refused to just do as they were told.
- Financial services industry leaders train all their staff to facilitate group processes with greater confidence and expertise in order to apply agile principles to their work and stay ahead of the competition.
- Urban design and planning companies train their staff to facilitate dynamic and interactive public meetings, stakeholder conversations, and project teams in order to develop plans that reflect community values and therefore pass through approval processes faster.
- Information Technology departments and companies train all their staff to build consensus and lead meetings that elicit the actual requirements of client groups with less guesswork and fewer iterations that just end up dragging projects on forever.
- National NGOs with a mandate to have an impact on a particular topic need to collaborate with other NGOs, governments, companies, associations, and agencies across the country and around the world. If the word “coalition” or “partnership” is in the name then you need to train all their staff how to facilitate.
- Provincial government ministries that navigate sensitive internal and external stakeholder relationships train large cohorts of managers and coordinators to be more facilitative in their approach, improving collaboration, communication, and speed.
Continued Development After Training
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Facilitating Client Collaboration (FCC) focuses on the diagnosis, design, and preparation stage of a facilitation process. It is a tremendous act of empathy to understand a whole group’s needs and not insert your own nor assume the boss’ instructions were accurate or even firm. So what does this group of people need at this point in their journey?
Transformational Strategy (TS) is a natural next step after GFM because it takes the two core methodologies and customises them to create a strategic thinking process, a participatory environmental scanning process, and a participatory (team) action planning that creates short term goals and the commitment to accomplish them.
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