IE 440 - Team Leadership/Facilitation

• Describe what facilitation is and what shaped it as a profession
• Identify critical planning techniques (e.g. agendas, logistics)
• Be in a position to give/receive constructive feedback
• Describe strategies for managing through conflict in groups
• Facilitate a brainstorming session
• Understand how and when to use flipcharts
• Describe and utilize strategies to help groups make decisions
• Assist a team in overcoming decision deadlock
• Understand the ethics of facilitation and how to make ethical decisions
• Understand how different leadership skills impact team/group performance

• None

• History of facilitation/facilitation basics
• Effective meetings
• Team conflict/group dynamics
• Brainstorming and critical thinking
• Asking questions/active listening
• Group decision making
• Self-awareness
• Ethics
• Team leadership

• This class is structured such that it allows for more experiential, active learning
• Observing group process
• Team goals, roles, milestones
• Effective meetings
• Conflict exercise
• Team project work
• Divergence/convergence practice on team project
• Active listening lab
• Group Styles Inventory simulation and debrief
• Personal leadership brand