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Grow your facilitation skills

Event information

Date

Add to Calendar 2025-04-02 10:30:00 2025-04-23 12:00:00 Grow your facilitation skills Are you new to leading meetings? Do you want to become a better facilitator and meeting participant? If yes, our four-part series on growing your facilitation skills is for you!Offered online, each 90-minute session builds on the previous session's content and will engage you with tools and perspectives for facilitating both in-person and online meetings. The sessions will not be recorded. You will access the course via Zoom from 10:30 a.m. – noon CST on the following dates :Session 1 (April 2): Designing good meetingsSession 2 (April 9): Facilitation mindset and skillsetSession 3 (April 16): Tools to facilitate engagementSession 4 (April 23): Handling facilitation challengesTo receive a certificate of completion, you must attend all four sessions and complete a Personal Action Plan. America/Chicago public

Time

Central time

Location

Online course

Contact

Lisa Hinz, [email protected]

A team leader facilitating a meeting for their diverse team (age, gender and racial).

Are you new to leading meetings? Do you want to become a better facilitator and meeting participant? If yes, our four-part series on growing your facilitation skills is for you!

Offered online, each 90-minute session builds on the previous session's content and will engage you with tools and perspectives for facilitating both in-person and online meetings. The sessions will not be recorded. 

You will access the course via Zoom from 10:30 a.m. – noon CST on the following dates :

  • Session 1 (April 2): Designing good meetings
  • Session 2 (April 9): Facilitation mindset and skillset
  • Session 3 (April 16): Tools to facilitate engagement
  • Session 4 (April 23): Handling facilitation challenges

To receive a certificate of completion, you must attend all four sessions and complete a Personal Action Plan.

Cost

This course is offered using a pay-what-you-can pricing model. Choose the rate (tuition profile) that works best for you and/or your organization:

  • $120 — I have a professional development budget, and want to use those funds to learn via this course.
  • $60 — I do not have a professional development budget, and want to invest personal funds to grow my facilitation skills.
  • $20 — I want to learn more about facilitation and appreciate that this nominal fee is an option.

Registration

Course number: EXT LCE.0010

Register by Friday, March 21, 2025 at 4 p.m. CST.

Register for course

Accommodations

University of Minnesota Extension is committed to providing equal opportunity for participation in all programs, services, and activities. Accommodations for persons with disabilities may be requested by contacting Jody Horntvedt, [email protected], two weeks before the start of the event. Requests received after this date will be honored whenever possible.

Language

This offering is delivered in English. Interpreter services may be available with an advance request.

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