Group Facilitation and Decision Making

Many organisations regularly use facilitated decision making in a range of business areas, including project development, where Facilitation skills are becoming a required core competency for Project Managers. The trend towards partnership working within supply chains and involving stakeholders in decision making adds further emphasis to the need for people skilled in leading mixed groups to elicit information, identify and understand problems and reach consensus on decisions and actions.

This course aims to improve personal skills in facilitating group decision making and introduces a range of group decision making tools and techniques that are applied in a series of exercises.

• To understand the role and significance of group decision making in project development
• To understand appropriate tools and techniques to assist group decision making
• To develop skills in the facilitation of group decision making
  

• Problems, problem solving and decision making
• Pitfalls in project decision making
• The scope and advantages of facilitated decision making
• The role of the facilitator
• Planning for group decision making
• Group dynamics
• Tools and techniques
• Personal skills
• Facilitation in practice
  

Middle and Senior Managers of any discipline, Civil Service and Local Authority Managers, Project Managers, Programme Managers, Construction Managers, Architects, Senior Engineers.