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Leading with Purpose

Formerly: Lead Meetings with Purpose
Facilitation Skills: Leading with Purpose Workshop

This interactive workshop will provide you with a structured process for facilitating sessions of any kind, whether virtual or in person. Learn how to determine when a session is necessary and ensure it has a clear objective and purpose. With a toolkit of fundamental facilitation tools, you’ll be able to generate and organize ideas, analyze and prioritize them, and make decisions. Numerous practice exercises will provide hands-on experience. Your staff meetings, planning sessions, focus groups, community-based meetings, and all other sessions will be more meaningful and productive.

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Workshop objectives

For anyone who needs the fundamental skills and knowledge to be an effective facilitator of virtual or in-person sessions or meetings.

  • Determine if a session is necessary.
  • Prepare for the session.
  • Select the appropriate facilitation tools.
  • Open the session.
  • Apply idea-generating facilitation tools.
  • Apply prioritizing and analyzing facilitation tools.
  • Apply decision-making facilitation tools.
  • Employ effective speaking skills.
  • Apply active listening skills.
  • Document session information.
  • Manage challenging behaviors.
  • Close the session.
What you will learn

Session 1

  • How to distinguish between the process and the content of a session.
  • How to determine if a session is even necessary.
  • A structured facilitation process that guarantees success every time.
  • 4 critical areas to consider when planning a session (with a comprehensive planning worksheet to document the details).
  • How to ensure there is a meaningful purpose for your session.
  • How to recognize the importance of your session objectives.
  • How to write the objectives properly.
  • What criteria you should consider when selecting facilitation tools to accomplish your session objective.
  • How to select the most suitable tools for your session.
  • 15 simple tools to generate and organize ideas.
  • 15 practical tools to analyze and prioritize ideas.
  • 15 proven tools to make decisions.
  • A detailed process worksheet to document the critical information for all four phases of the session process.
  • What to include in the agenda.


Session 2

  • 8 steps to open your session effectively.
  • Why you should establish ground rules.
  • Tips to help you effectively manage time and adhere to your agenda.
  • 12 tips to improve your speaking skills.
  • 2 types of questions to promote participation.
  • Active listening skills guaranteed to encourage communication.
  • 5 techniques to improve your non-verbal communication skills.
  • 6 tips to help you remain neutral without appearing apathetic.
  • How to document information so that it supports the session objectives.
  • How to recognize challenging behaviors.
  • Tips and strategies to prevent challenging behaviors.


Session 3

  • 9 steps to deal with conflict during the session.
  • A comprehensive checklist for closing out the session.
  • A simple, yet thorough, end-of-session report to summarize the session.
  • Samples of formal and informal methods for evaluating the success of your session.
  • Lead and participate in multiple mini facilitation practice opportunities.
  • Practice all workshop skills and a variety of tools from the Facilitation Toolkit in an end-of-workshop simulated session.
  • Receive feedback from your peers.
  • Practice giving feedback on peer performance.
What you will receive
  • All the worksheets, checklists, and forms in Microsoft® Word template format. Simply download them from your personal My Langevin website.
  • A step-by-step Facilitation Toolkit with 45 proven, powerful tools to help you accomplish the objective of your session. 
  • 90-day access to all recorded online sessions. 
  • Free 1-year feedback service. Send us a recording of yourself facilitating a session and we will give you detailed feedback to further develop your skills. 
Things to know

This workshop combines 3 synchronous sessions with additional self-paced activities. You will spend approximately 7.5 hours live, online learning how to apply a structured process that will enable you to lead sessions with confidence. Also, 2 to 3 hours will be required for pre-course work and intersession assignments.

  • Maximum Class Size: 15 participants (We limit class size to ensure maximum value and participation for our clients.)
  • Log in to the Adobe Connect platform using the link that will be sent prior to your workshop.
  • Expect an engaging, highly interactive, hands-on workshop with plenty of practice opportunities using breakout rooms, chat, polls, whiteboard annotation tools, etc.
  • Review recordings of each session for up to three months after the workshop ends.

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