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DESCRIPTION:Click for Latest Location Information: http://edw2009.wilshireconferences.com/sessionPop.cfm?confid=31&proposalid=1174\nThis workshop provides an overview in facilitation techniques needed for conducting workshops and business meetings. It highlights: facilitation concepts, psychological interactions and communication style differences, techniques for a successful facilitator, creating agendas and scripts for facilitating, techniques for handling difficult groups and common interpersonal problems. \n \nThe attendee will gain an understanding of the importance of understanding and applying the concepts in group dynamics, and will see how proper facilitation can improve them, the critical success factors of facilitation in the context of information management, offer some suggestions for avoiding common problems, and deliver a successful meeting with appropriate documentation.\nThe objectives of the workshop are to:\n<ul><li>Learn and develop: </li>\n	<ul><li> active listening skills </li>\n	<li> building agendas for project planning and decision making sessions</li>\n	<li> consensus building and facilitation techniques for group dynamics</li></ul>\n<li>	Provide practical group and individual exercises for facilitating requirements, modeling and other information management activities</li>\n<li>	Supply sample agendas, scripts and templates describing how to capture the various deliverables used in information management efforts</li></ul>
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SUMMARY:W2: Facilitation Workshop
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LOCATION: See Description
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