Learn facilitation skills to advance your career

LEARNING to Lead collaboratively is a two-day workshop designed to increase the potential for collaborative decision making and problem solving by providing participants with powerful facilitation tools and practice in using them.

The workshop focuses on how to choose the process or processes that enable a successful meeting, the key roles played by a group facilitator and recorder and the steps beyond facilitation towards collaborative leadership. It is a prerequisite for Donna Ching’s Strategic Planning and Advanced Facilitation workshops.

Participants at this workshop will learn:

• The importance of developing a focus for your meeting
• How to build a good agenda
• How to acknowledge and meet the differing expectations of participants at your meeting
• The importance of listening as an ally
• How to arrange your meeting room for maximum productivity
• The importance of getting feedback

The presenter, Donna Ching, has been an extension specialist in the Department of Human Resources at the University of Hawaii-Manoa since 1987.  She has worked with a variety of nonprofit, for-profit and community organizations in the areas of group process, leadership, facilitation, strategic planning and collaborative decision making.

• When:  March 28-29; Wed. and Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• Where:  University of Hawai`i at Hilo, Kanaka`ole Hall, Room 122, 200 West Kawili Street, Hilo
• What’s included:  Workshop manual, morning and afternoon refreshments and lunch.
• Cost: $200 for HANO members, Aloha United Way partner agencies and UH faculty and staff; $300 for non-members
• Registration deadline:  Wednesday, March 21
• To register: Click HERE