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"I got so much out of the training and I put the consensus building workshop to work all the time. We do spread the word and sing your praises all the time and hope that it generates some more participants for you. I haven't gone anywhere that people don't LOVE the sticky wall and the and the low-tech, hands-on feel of the methods. Best thing I ever did, going to Chicago last June.” -Lorien Castelle, Delta Project, New York
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International Managment Development Program
Price 2500-3500
Date Range-21-06-2013 to 26-07-2013
September 22-26, 2014
This five-day leadership training program is sponsored by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and is open to the public. Anyone who works in health care in developing countries (or hopes to) will benefit from this course. Build an understanding of the real challenges that exist in international health systems as you rub shoulders with health professionals from around the world. Discover ways to peel back and expose the roots of these challenges as you build skills for employee and systems management. Participants include physicians, ministers of health, and health care workers from developing countries.
If you hope to work in international health care situations you may find this opportunity to grow and learn with peers will enlighten your personal and professional understanding of health care.
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Facilitation Graphics
Price 2500-3500
Date Range-21-06-2013 to 26-07-2013
November 13, 2014
Words communicate symbolically. Words married to visuals communicate more deeply and dramatically. There is a power in the visual – it shapes experience, refreshes, enlivens and deepens communication. Nearly 90% of adults learn best tapping into visual thinking/learning skills. This one-day experiential session covers:
- Exploring a variety of markers, tools, papers and documentation processes
- Basic shapes and drawing techniques
- Beginning an icon library
- Organizing information visually
- Graphic Recording tips and practice
- Creating metaphorical Graphic Facilitation templates for your applications while leading the group process
Outcomes:
- Learn to augment your meeting design to engage participants visually
- Increase your toolkit for communicating ideas and strategies
- Deepen capability to listen fully and capture key ideas
- Increase confidence for leading groups using visual tools that help them think, discuss and make decisions
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Inspiring Group Creativity: Facilitation for Innovation – $350.00
Price 2500-3500
Date Range-21-06-2013 to 26-07-2013
May 29, 2014
Facilitating group creativity and innovative action has always been a challenge, perhaps never more so than when a group is tasked to “think out of the box” on the spot and come up with new solutions to a problem or situation. This is a highly interactive course that utilizes creative tools to explore and practice group innovation. Participants learn methods that can be immediately applied to foster creative teamwork.
Outcomes:
- Shake up the creative mind
- Frame and reframe problems and dilemmas
- Develop innovative strategies
*1-Day course – a superb introduction to evoking group creativity and learning innovation tools and approaches
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Approaches To Environmental Scanning – $350.00
Price 2500-3500
Date Range-21-06-2013 to 26-07-2013
May 13,2014
August 5,2014
An environmental scan is an assessment tool to prepare the group for further work such as strategic planning or significant decisions. It includes relevant factual data such as an organizational or community history, accomplishments, industry and/or economic trends and subjective data such as customer, staff or community perceptions. In following the environmental scan with a planning process, the analysis of information about real and perceived needs provides a basis that will assist in strengthening later sessions. There are many ways to an environmental assessment. You will be introduced to multiple approaches to Environmental Scanning including:
- Current Trends Conversations - Brief and Extended Versions
- Environmental Context Overview
- Situation Assessment Frameworks
- Cooperative Study of Qualitative Data
- The "Wall of Wonder" Environmental or Historical Scan
- The Wave Paradigm Inventory
- Strategic Juncture Analysis
- Comprehensive Screens: Plotting a Snapshot of an Organization
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TFM – Top® Facilitation Methods – $645.00
Price 2500-3500
Date Range-21-06-2013 to 26-07-2013
June 10-11, 2014
September 16-17, 2014
November 11-12, 2014
Participants in the ToP Facilitation Methods course learn to enhance individual and team results, improve organizational effectiveness, produce exemplary service performance by learning three proven methods that are the foundation of the Technology of Participation (ToP): The Focused Conversation Method, The Consensus Workshop Method and The Action Planning Method
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Facilitation Conciliation: Beyond Conflict Management – $645.00
Price 2500-3500
Date Range-21-06-2013 to 26-07-2013
Date - TBA (Offered every other year in Chicago)
The course offers an alternative to an adversarial approach of dealing with disputes and offers a way of finding the best and most lasting solution by moving deeper into the issues and directly involving the people who may be holding those fixed positions or negotiating from bases of power.
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The fee for the Technology of Participation two-day workshops is $645.00 per person. These fees include a comprehensive workbook and program instruction. A one day lab fee is $350.00. When full payment or purchase order is received three weeks or more in advance, you can receive a discounted fee of $595.00 for a two-day course (or $295.00 for a one-day lab.) Scholarship assistance may be available in special circumstances. Please contact Dennis Jennings.Group Discount--
When four enroll from one organization at the same course location and date, the first three pay $645.00 each and the fourth person attends free. Please call Dennis Jennings for information on group discounts - 773-769-9266
Cancellation
Cancellation refunds may be received up to 21 days prior to each course less a $75.00 processing fee. Cancellation received less than 21 days prior to a course will be subject to full payment. If you are unable to attend, you may send a substitute. Any other arrangements must be negotiated directly with the local registrar.
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