Module 1 Requirements:

• Review a theoretical perspective on group dynamics or groups and

write a critique articulating the impact of the ideas and approaches in
it might may have on facilitation.
• Grading criteria: The review should be divided into two segments. The
first part should be a summary of the theoretical perspective The
second segment should be your reaction (critique) to the core themes
of the perspective.
The Facilitator
Module 2
 Module 2: Requirements
Draft an outline of a program
Think of an industry or sector wherein you see yourself conducting a
team meeting/group dynamics activity.
• Indicate the type of industry (name of specific company can be named)
• Department/s involved
• Briefly describe the activity
• Purpose of activity
• Indicate the location/s (logistics) and duration of the activity
• Introduce the activity to the “participants”
• What kind of leader are you?
• What is your facilitating style?
Facilitator
• Fine mix of theory and practice
• Formal degree in one of the social-behavioral sciences
Facilitator
Group-Centered Leadership
• Requires the leader to be able to facilitate learning and development,
fully understand the learner’s subjective reality as he relates to
objective reality.
• Upholds the belief that the most effective group is one in which each
member of the group contributes his maximum efforts ensuring the
groups decision to plan and decide for its life
• not an autocrat and abdicrat
Facilitator
• Keeps the activity focused on the problem
• Moves along specific goals tactfully
• Prevent anyone from monopolizing the activity
Role of an ideal facilitator
• Advanced preparation
• Personal appearance
• Do not suffocate participant with lengthy exhaustive content
• Create a positive atmosphere (Robert Pike’s WIIFM)
• assess participant
• Provide positive reinforcement of responses
Facilitator: Communicator
• Group Centered, People Oriented Leadership
1. Active Listening- both feelings or attitude; fully grasps the message
2. Reflecting back- paraphrasing the essence
3. Clarifying- the speaker’s own as well as the groups
4. Linking- connecting ideas; interrupts ramblings and long narrations
and links them
5. Conveying acceptance- in word, attitude, and behavior
6. Achieving Humanness- sensitivity to one’s own humanness and
those in the group
Trainor/Facilitator
• Initiates and guides the activity
• Provides appropriate questions
• Always uses two-way
communication
• Coordinates activities or orient
people
• Develops group goals and
objectives
• Participant centers on
application of actual life
situation
Teacher/Mentor
• Presents facts and data
• Provides the right responses
• Emphasizes one way
communication
• Delegates activities or task-
oriented
• Imposes goals and objectives
• Participant is centered on
subject matter or theoretical
know-how
Facilitating Styles (Lieber, Yalom, and Miles, 1973)
• Emotional stimulation- highly charged evocative facilitator
• Caring- warm personal relationships characterized by love,
understanding, and genuiness.
• Attribution- gives cognitive meaning to experience
• Executive function- emphasizes a managerial approach
Modes (Cohen and Smith, 1975)
• Conceptual Mode- similar to executive and meaning attribution
• Experiential Mode- reporting of direct experience concerning ongoing
behavior
• Structural Mode- deliberate use of planned structured activities and
skill exercises
 Team Approach in Facilitating
• 9,9 Model- Blake and Mouton
A high degree for people and an equally high concern for the attainment
of tasks goals
1. Demonstrate team leadership, deemphasize the dependence on one
strong leader and value interdependence
2. Learning environment is enriched and a learning issue is understood
from a number of perspectives
3. Variety of style, expertise, and experience
4. Provides facilitators tremendous opportunities for growth
Facilitator
• Which facilitating style is the best?
Facilitator
• Fine mix of theory and practice
• Formal degree in one of the social-behavioral sciences
Characteristics of a good facilitator
• Humble • Affirming of everyone’s
• Generous knowledge
• Patient • Sensitive to the needs of others
• Understanding • Willing to learn form mistakes
• Accepting • Dynamic, a motivator
• Inclusive • A good listener
• An encourager • Good at summarizing others’
ideas
• An enabler
• Good communicator
Skills of a good facilitator
• Well prepared
• Think and act creatively
• Deal with sensitive issues and manage people’s feelings
• Encourage humor and respect
• Negotiate and influence others
• Keep to time without being driven from it.
Ideal Group Participants
• Imitate, stimulate, and arouse activity discussion
• Clarify ideas and willing to compromise in order to be creative in
resolving conflicts
• Express the group’s feeling and allow consensus of the group
• Explore vital issues and data as factual habit or decision making
• Give constructive feedback (when you… I feel… I would like… What do
you think…)
• Listen carefully and accept criticisms
How will deal with …
• Dominant
• Shy
How do you plan a good facilitation process?
• CLIMATE and ENVIRONMENT sets the tone
• LOGISTICS and ROOM arrangements
How do you plan a good facilitation process?
Essential for anyone seeking to guide a group through the process of
learning or change in a way that encourages all members of the group
to participate.
Each person has a unique viewpoint and valuable knowledge to share
The facilitator’s role is to draw out knowledge and ideas from different
members of a group.
Its about empowering others.
Letting go of control over the outcome of a process and giving control
the group.
• Facilitation is the art, not of putting ideas into people’s heads, but of
drawing ideas out

Anon

• A good facilitator is best when people barely know he or she exists…

• A good facilitator is one who talks little. When work is done, the aim
fulfilled, they will all say, “we did this ourselves”

Lao Tzu