Level up your meetings and your leadership skills
Powerful Meetings: Foolproof Facilitation Skills for Virtual and In-Person Collaboration
Welcome to Powerful Meetings! In this 6 hour training, you will learn how to lead meetings that achieve your results while building strong engagement and relationships.
We have decades of experience facilitating meetings and events and have identified the key skills and behaviors anyone can learn to lead powerful and effective meetings. We have coached facilitators and helped them grow into confident and thoughtful leaders.
Whether you are new to leading meetings or want to brush up on your skills - join us to gain the confidence and skills you need for any meeting.
-Emily Grantz and Cassie Schmitt
If you go into meetings:
Dreading leading a group of people
Feeling unprepared
Unsure of what a successful outcome looks like
If you leave meetings:
Exhausted and frustrated by low participation
Confused about whether decisions were made or if there are next steps
With the action to schedule another meeting about the same topic, since the group did not reach its goal…
…you will benefit from Powerful Meetings, an interactive training where you will develop and practice skills to facilitate meetings that accomplish your goals. Powerful Meetings is a six-hour course offered over two days via Zoom.
Building your facilitation skills helps you succeed and improve your skills in other core competencies including:
Communication
Collaboration
Time management
Decision-making
Problem-solving
Active listening
Organization
Leadership
“This training was great! Loaded with learning, deep content and careful delivery. A gold standard training.”
Course Details
This training covers:
The role of the facilitator and how it leads to powerful, effective, and collaborative work.
Foolproof facilitation skills including active listening, agenda and stakeholder management, and building engagement during meetings.
Preparing for success including pre-meeting prep and post meeting follow up.
“A very personalized experience. I got more value than I got in the whole year-long (expensive!) facilitation training I took!”
Logistics
Next session offered virtually through Zoom:
Friday, September 20, 9am-12pm, Pacific
Saturday, September 21, 9am-12pm, Pacific
Note, if you are interested in participating but unable to pay full cost, please contact us at the bottom of this page to hear about sliding scale options.
Meet the Instructors
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Emily (they/them) is a skilled facilitator trained in inclusive facilitation through the Anti Oppressive Resources and Training Alliance, and Gracious Space. They have worked in higher education, the aerospace sector, and most recently in public transit. Their expertise spans project and program management, coaching teams to adopt Agile and Lean methodologies, and supporting teams in leveraging collaboration tools such as Trello, Planner, SharePoint Online, and Microsoft Teams.
Emily also has a background in education - specifically in teaching K-12 and adults. They leverage the principles of adult learning and pedagogy when creating and facilitating trainings, meetings, workshops, and other workplace gatherings.
Emily has a Masters degree in Library and Information Science, which they leverage when working with teams who struggle to organize and find information.
Emily also has a background in disability rights activism, and spent several years organizing to improve the experience of disabled employees in the workplace.
Emily can help you level up your workplace by having better meetings and developing more efficient, collaborative and fun ways of working together.
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Cassie (she/her) is an expert at designing for remote work through program development, process improvement, and integrating equity into work. She uses inclusive design approaches to solve problems and believes everyone can make incremental progress towards making things better.
In addition to facilitation and remote skills, Cassie regularly teaches adult learners on key information skills and behaviors that data-driven employers crave.
Cassie holds a B.A. in History and Philosophy, Politics, and Law and a Master of Science of Information (MSI).
