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Module content and learning outcomes

Module Title

Module Content

Module Outcomes

Survival Kit

  • Personal concerns
  • Tools and strategies
  • Components of a successful workshop
  • Basic administration requirements.
  • Personal preparation – mental & physical
  • Identify personal concerns of facilitation.
  • Identify and discuss tools and strategies for successful facilitation.
  • Identify components of a successful workshop.
  • Identify basic administration required for success.
  • Identify strategies to prepare and manage yourself during a workshop.

Facilitator Qualities

  • Worst/best approaches
  • Facilitator attributes
  • Personal attributes
  • Leadership approaches
  • Facilitator/presenter styles
  • Facilitator values, principles and philosophy
  • Reflect on successful and unsuccessful facilitation approaches
  • Identify desired facilitation attributes.
  • Identify personal facilitation attributes.
  • Identify and apply leadership approaches that relate to facilitation.
  • Identify differences between presentation and facilitation and understand characteristics of a presenter and facilitator.
  • Confirm values and principles to establish a personal philosophy for facilitation.

Questioning and Feedback

  • Question types and purpose (questioning to gain understanding, create understanding, increase self awareness)
  • Developing a sequence of questions
  • Feedback types and purpose (giving feedback, receiving feedback, PREP model)
  • Understand the role of questioning in facilitation and identify question types.
  • Use a question or sequence of questions to promote audience understanding.
  • Understand the role of feedback in facilitation and identify feedback types.
  • Use strategies to give to give and receive feedback.

Listening and Emotional Intelligence

  • Active listening skills
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Self Awareness
  • Empathy
  • Reading an audience
  • Demonstrate active listening skills.
  • Explore emotional intelligence and apply emotional intelligence concepts in facilitation (self awareness, empathy and sympathy, interactions)
  • Recognise audience signals that show engagement and understanding.

Management and Planning

(Draft – material not yet completed)

  • Researching the audience
  • Venue research (room size, resources, features, room set up, risk management).
  • Workshop administration and logistics
  • Time allocation, planning, management, practising (timing, stories, activities, questions, timing, introduction, etc)
  • Technology and resources
  • Evaluation of workshops
  • Establish the nature and needs of the audience.
  • Establish venue resources and organisational requirements
  • Perform administration requirements to deliver a successful workshop.
  • Plan and practise workshop delivery.
  • Use technology and resources to deliver a workshop.
  • Implement, reflect on and evaluate workshop delivery.

Creating an effective learning environment

(Emphasis on adult learning principles)

(Draft– material not yet completed)

  • Creating an inclusive learning environment.
  • Adult learning
  • Learning preferences
  • Catering to learning preferences
  • Conflict management
  • Demonstrate an understanding of, and provide an inclusive environment.
  • Explain, demonstrate and reflect on how adults learn.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of individual learning preferences.
  • Demonstrate how to cater for learning preferences within facilitation.
  • Apply conflict management strategies in facilitation.

Communication

(Draft– material not yet completed)

  • Personal delivery (clarity, pronunciation, speed, tone, movement, congruency of body language, jargon)
  • Verbal Delivery (giving directions, instructions)(paper dart game maybe)
  • Body language
  • Prepare visual aids
  • Prepare written hand outs
  • To raise awareness of personal communication styles to identify strength and weaknesses.
  • Identify and apply verbal communication techniques
  • Demonstrate an awareness of non-verbal communication.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of concepts of creating visual and written handouts.

Facilitator Assessment

  • To be added
  • To be added

Updated | 02 Mar 2009.

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