Facilitation Foundations Bootcamp 🚀
A transformational 1-day Virtual Facilitation Bootcamp. Learn essential facilitation skills to boost your career prospects and improve collaboration in your organisation.
What's included in the Facilitation Foundations Bootcamp Training?
A virtual Facilitation Training Workshop condensing years of expertise and trial and error into one day.
Access to a group of ambitious, like-minded peers and facilitators.
Access to the recording for 3 months after the session.
A Facilitation Foundations PDF guide packed with tools and frameworks.
Put theory into practice. Get expert feedback on your facilitation skills.
A Facilitation Foundations certificate!
Why learn facilitation…..?
Because the traditional methods of team collaboration are fundamentally flawed!
£77 Million
is the annual cost for large enterprises for employees attending useless meetings.
(Source: Useless Meetings Waste Time and $100 Million a Year for Big Companies, Bloomberg 2022)
65%
of senior managers said that meetings keep them from completing their own work.
(Source: Stop the Meeting Madness, Harvard Business Review 2017)
72%
of meetings are ineffective
(Source: global study by Atlassian)
75%
of decision-makers say they need to improve collaboration within their own department.
(Source: Unlocking the Value of Open Collaboration to Drive Enterprise Agility, Forrester Research 2021)
The Solution?
Skilled Facilitation!
Despite collaboration being cited as a critical issue by many organisations, people are often are thrown into the role of facilitator and expected to deliver great results! Skilled facilitation is needed as complex projects and remote work often result in endless, unproductive meetings, frustration, and stalled progress.
Skilled facilitators significantly reduce complexity and boost effectiveness and team satisfaction. They understand group dynamics and have the tools at their disposal to help people generate great ideas, solve problems and make decisions.
Who is this training for?
Beginners
Want to master Facilitation and Collaboration from scratch? I’ll guide you through all the essentials to kickstart your journey in facilitation.
Intermediate
Got some experience but looking to strengthen your skills? I’ll provide you with a framework that will support and enhance your facilitation career for years to come.
Meet your trainer
Louis is a skilled facilitator who works with organisations to help them innovate and improve collaboration.
He is an experienced facilitator and has faciliated a wide-range of sessions in a number of sectors. Some examples of these sessions include: Hackathons for train companies, training sessions for Product Managers in the tech world, Ideation workshops with Innovation teams and Prioritisation Workshops with Communications teams.
He is a self-confessed facilitation and innovation nerd 🤓
Kate Nightingale, Director of Communications, Campaigns and Research at Young Women’s Trust
“Louis ran a training session on facilitation skills for our Communications and Digital team.
The session was really clear, well-structured and engaging. He delved into the theory behind his work (which he’s clearly very knowledgeable about), before showing us valuable techniques and tools to put into practice.
Louis was skilled at creating a welcoming and inclusive environment, encouraging active participation and open dialogue. This atmosphere was crucial in demonstrating the effectiveness of good facilitation practices firsthand.
One of the key takeaways for me was the reminder of why facilitation is essential. The session highlighted how effective facilitation can transform group dynamics, foster collaboration, and drive productive outcomes.
It reinforced the idea that a good facilitator can significantly enhance the quality of discussions, ensuring that all voices are heard and that the group stays focused on their objectives.
We'll certainly be taking away lots of tips to make our meetings more productive in the future. He has left us with a template and decision making model that we now feel confident applying in our workshops. Thank you!”
I’m trusted by and have facilitated workshops for some of the UK’s most loved organisations…
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Neil Gilbert, Head of Innovation, Samaritans
“Louis is a natural strategist with a rock-solid commitment to making the world a better place. He thinks strategically, is naturally curious and is highly collaborative – a fantastic combination in innovation and new product development. Louis is very willing to challenge conventional wisdom, whilst understanding the importance of carrying people with him. His confidence and bias to action mean he’s completely at home leading others through uncertainty, as well as building an evidence base to incrementally build the case for propositions and strategic work. He’s an anchor to any team – popular, very credible and highly productive.”
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Gareth Ellis Thomas, Former Director of Transformation at Prostate Cancer UK & Digital Consultant
“In a career where I've been lucky enough to have worked with some staggeringly talented and excellent people, Louis is up there with the best of them.
If you need some help with innovation, coaching or facilitation then you should definitely give him a shout.” -
Jamie Bedford-Low, Senior Innovation Manager, Diabetes UK
“I worked with Louis to plan and deliver an innovation taster workshop for our 120 strong Engagement and Marketing Team. Louis was friendly, knowledgeable and flexible in planning. In delivery, Louis was professional, passionate and down to earth. The workshop was really well received and left a post lunch crowd feeling energised and excited about innovation! I'd be happy to recommend and work with Louis in the future.”
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Kate Carr, Corporate Responsibility Specialist, Business in the Community
“Louis’ creativity, strategic input and patience in helping me to develop a series of co-creation sprints was invaluable; I highly recommend!”
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Hayley Luxton, Senior Research Impact & Intelligence Manager, Prostate Cancer UK
“Louis has been super helpful in a project I was working on: 'How do we best support researchers'. Louis coached me through a number of techniques/sessions including assumption mapping, 'how might we', prioritising based on impact/effort etc. Not only is he a font of knowledge he's also a great coach, communicator and thanks to his support we now have confidence that our plans are what the audience want and need.”
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Jo Pullin, Legacies Innovation Lead, Macmillan Cancer Support
“I have been working with Louis through a 3 month discovery phase to uncover opportunities for legacy fundraising. Through this process Louis has helped distil complex audience insights into actionable strategies, leading to the development of a robust pipeline of opportunities for Legacy fundraising.
Louis and I have had regular sessions but aside from this he has taken the time to get to know the team and understand the wider organisational context. He is a true collaborator and happy to challenge members of the team or ways of working to help us to think outside the box. Thanks Louis!.”
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Harry Geerts, Senior Innovation Manager, Dementia UK
“Louis delivered a great training session on Insight for Innovation. A really valuable and engaging session for myself and the team. Highly recommend.”
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Thomas Martin, Farfetch
“I was finding that we needed an expert outside of the business to really get my team and myself thinking creatively and changing how we approach current problems and projects we are facing. Before the session with my team Louis took the time to speak to my lead and myself to understand more about structure of my team, gain clarity on the type of session we would like and go over operational notes of the session. This due diligence Louis went through was fantastic to see and it really ensured that the session was perfectly optimised to my demands. I have personally actioned 2 of the solutions we worked on with my team and am finding we are more efficient and more creative. Thanks again!!
Over 10 years of experience distilled into one day via the UAF Method:
📖 Understanding
The theory behind facilitation & why it’s needed.
📈 Approach
How to approach different scenarios using a variety of skills and techniques.
🛠️ Frameworks
How to use various tools and frameworks to design successful meetings and workshops.
Plus get The Facilitation Foundations Guidebook!
The Guidebook covers:
Step-by-step guides to running meetings workshops with any team, effectively solving common problems
Techniques to develop creative solutions and make important decisions with your team by adopting the mindset of a facilitator.
How to use workshops to advance your career and be recognised as the Innovation Expert by your organisation.
What you’ll learn
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Before we delve into the specifics of facilitation and the role of a facilitator, it's crucial to emphasise that facilitation is the essential skill of the future. In Module 1, we will explore the theory behind facilitation, the duties of a facilitator, the importance of facilitation, and the appropriate situations for using it.
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Having a skilled and effective facilitator lead a session or workshop can significantly improve the outcomes and boost team efficiency.
A proficient facilitator helps the group stay focused on the task and enables faster, better decision-making.Many misconceptions exist about what makes a good facilitator, which can discourage you from trying or, worse, negatively impact your facilitation by making you focus on the wrong aspects.
Believe me, you don’t need to be an extrovert or a subject matter expert to excel as a facilitator. With the right techniques and skills, anyone can become a great facilitator.
In Module 2, you will learn about the four foundational facilitation techniques and skills necessary to become an excellent facilitator.
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If you’ve ever planned a workshop, you know there’s a LOT to clarify before designing the agenda.
In this module, we’ll cover the practical tools every facilitator should know to create and run a successful workshop
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In this module we will be putting everything that we’ve learned in the first 3 Modules into practice.
The best way to bring the frameworks to life is to put them to use!
So for this module, we’re going to take a real example of a workshop or meeting you have coming up (or we can make one up!) and have you design the session in the training!
Certification
On completion of the training, you’ll receive a signed digital certificate of completion to show off your new skills!
Small groups, big results!
The programme is limited to 8 people. to ensure you get the best possible experience.
This training will give you the confidence you need to fulfil your potential as a facilitator!
Key information
Date & Time: 12th November, 10am-4pm
Location: Virtual
Price = £347
The programme is limited to 8 people and there are 3 spaces left. to ensure you get the best possible experience.
Book a no obligation chat if of interest. There are discounts available for group bookings!
Interested in joining the Facilitation Foundations Virtual Bootcamp Training? 🚀
Book a no obligation call below
Or email me at louis@louischilds.co.uk