FACILITATION SKILLS

MYLYN D. TOMAQUIN
Teacher I
FACILITATION SKILLS
INSIDE OUT

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 Objectives
1. Provide opportunity to trainers for self-
reflection and self-analysis.
2. Explain the importance of
facilitation skills; and
3. Describe the five basic facilitation
skills needed by a trainer

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 ACTIVITY
1. Divide the class into four (4) random
groups.
2. Recall your experience/s with a very
effective facilitator.
3. What did the facilitator do that made
him/her effective?
4. Have the participants print each of these
actions (of the effective facilitators) on
meta strips.
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 ACTIVITY
5. Gather all responses and post on the board
clustering them according to:
Listening Observing Questioning Attending Integrating
Oral
Presentation

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 ACTIVITY

Reporting

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 knowledge
values
and
attitudes

skills
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WHAT IS FACILITATION?

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 FACILITATION

focuses on HOW people

participate in the process of
learning or planning, not just
on WHAT gets achieved

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 WHY FACILITATION SKILLS?

1. To encourage learner’s
involvement.
2. To help obtain feedback
from learners about the
training.
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Why do you need
facilitation skills?

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 Why is it important?
Reduce burden
Higher level of thinking and
planning
Discover the wisdom of your
team
Develop people
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 What facilitators
should know and do?

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 What facilitators should know?
1. People are moved by hopes and
dreams.

2. Problems can be solved; obstacles

are opportunities through which to
realize the future.

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 What facilitators should know?
3. People find their fulfilment in
taking responsibility, not in avoiding
it.

4. Teams are tension-filled.

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 What facilitators should DO?
Thinks through procedure and
formats.
- to gather cumulative insights
- to order them
- to decide on a course of action
with consensus and
commitment.
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 Key Skills of a Facilitator
• Observing group • Summarizing ideas,
behavior thoughts and feelings
• Analyzing group • Focusing group
behavior attention
• Listening actively • Focusing group
• Effectively paraphrasing thoughts and feelings
content and feelings • Evoking new
• Expressing ideas and approaches or insight
feelings
• Using non-verbal
behavior
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Facilitation Skills in Training Framework

Goals

• Integrating

• Questioning
• Attending
• Observing
• Listening

Learner
*Edna R. Escarrilla,

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 FACILITATION in TRAINING

Consist of inputs or actions

by the TRAINER
that helps trainees achieve
their goals
-John Epps
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 WHAT IS A FACILITATOR?
“ One who makes it easy for
others to perform their
tasks”
-John Epps

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 THE ROLES OF A FACILITATOR

has a positive attitude Shares and tries

out new ideas
motivates provides confidence
gives gives encouragement
Sensitive to
different needs values diversity
& interest of group
members leads by example
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 CONCLUSION
Facilitation is about empowering others.
It involves letting go of control over
the outcome of a process and giving
that responsibility to the group.
A facilitated participatory process
will take time and patience

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 APPLICATION
Ask each group to go back again to
their original responses, and analyze
truly if those whom they initially
identified as effective facilitators were
indeed facilitators
Ask one member from each group to
explain their answers.
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Only the people who take
learning, growth and skills
development into their
hands will be tomorrow’s
leaders.

-Ally Worthington