Collaborative processes for team creativity, action and accountability
Pre-Requisite : Group Facilitation Methods or GFM Online *
*This course is part of the Facilitative Leadership Program and the Advanced Facilitator Program.
Get workgroups, departments and collaborations working together to ensure success after success. Bring diverse people together, focus their purpose and keep them on track using their own creativity to solve problems, build lasting solutions and learn from mistakes.
Advanced ToP Tools demonstrates how to generate real commitment from diverse stakeholders and empower multi-stakeholder collaborations to immediate implementation and lasting partnerships.
Learn and practice online with a live group of people and two professional facilitators as instructors. Content is the same as the in-person classroom course and the manual can be downloaded.
Timing of the course is 9 am – 5 pm in the timezone mentioned.
Price is CAD$1,745 plus applicable tax.
Benefits
Teams and multi-stakeholder collaborations that stall or plateau can get to the next level and beyond with ToP Advanced Tools. Reorient, focus and generate lasting solutions that are sustainable and action-oriented. ToP facilitation enables healthy, productive, collaborative work.
Launch and sustain major initiatives
- Form effective task forces and committees.
- Launch programs and campaigns.
- Motivate and sustain coalitions and partnerships.
Get everyone working in the same direction
- Design innovative models and solutions for complex situations.
- Create practical action plans
- Maintain project momentum
Turn conflict into positive energy
- Diagnose, understand and address team issues and conflicts.
- Move from conflict and confusion to conciliation and forward momentum.
Generate creative solutions
- Establish meaningful and motivating contexts.
- Blend individual perspectives into team consensus.
- Elicit commitment and dedication
- Generate joint solutions for complex situations.
The course runs for 3 days from 9:00 am - 5:00 in the time zone mentioned. There is some pre-reading and additional reading after day one and two.
Day One
Initiating an Effective Team
- Group Journey Models
- Claiming the Victory
- Creating a Charter
- Historical Scan
- Framework of Participation
Day Two
Building Momentum
- Team Morale
- Understanding Team Conflict
- Tools for difficult situations
- Participation Guidelines
- Model Building
- Model Merging
Day Three
Sustaining Accomplishment
- Leading a team
- Project Work Planning
- Coordinating Action Plans
- Participation Guidelines
- Model Building
- Model Merging
Technology
The course is held over Zoom and Mural. Mural is an online whiteboard accessible with your browser with no need to sign in. You will need a good or high speed internet connection and a headset or earbuds.
- Professional facilitators who work with a lot of teams, projects and workgroups.
- Project Managers who are responsible for guiding initiatives to success
Committee and working group chairs who want to use a facilitative approach. - Managers and executives who want to support groups throughout the organization through a style of facilitative leadership.
- Front-line staff who need to work in a partnership mode with other groups and organizations
The Focused Conversation Method provides a structure for clear dialogue and reflection, probes beneath the surface to the depth of a topic, encourages a diversity of perspectives and leads to decisions.
Forming
The Victory Circle and Project Charter creates goal and comprehensive reference guide for all collaborative work. Frameworking develops a network of support and collaboration.
Storming
The Historical Scan sets an evolutionary context for the work for all members. ORID Diagnostic and the Phases of Conciliation allow any group to identify and address the obstacles to effective team work, providing models for addressing conflict within the team.
Norming
Model Building, Project Work Planning and Roles Matrix create structural solutions for any problem and provide ways to move into effective implementation.
Performing
ToP Action Planning gets groups into effective action quickly and Event Orchestration makes all meetings, including reporting, interesting and productive.
Transforming
The Project Tracking Matrix and the Team Journey allow desired impact and continuous improvement to occur, and new leadership to be reinforced for all future projects.
