Intro to Facilitation
Unlocking Career Success
Introduction to Facilitation
With Erik Skogsberg
In Partnership With Miro
December 3, 2024
3pm - 4:30pm CT
Live Online
Discover the key to successful collaborative leadership by stepping into the facilitation universe with Voltage Control. It’s what Forbes is calling “the best-kept leadership secret”. During our introductory workshop, explore the five qualities of effective facilitation and how they can improve collaboration, resolve conflicts, and design optimal experiences to help companies and teams thrive. You’ll learn some fundamental tools and techniques for beginning to improve your approach to collaborative leadership and identify key next steps in your growth.
During this FREE, virtual workshop, you will:
During this FREE, virtual workshop, you will:
- Learn what facilitation is and its connection to collaborative leadership
- Explore how facilitation skills ignite career growth and leadership success
- Practice fundamental facilitation frameworks to enhance team participation, stakeholder alignment, and decision-making
- Draft a plan for your facilitation and collaborative leadership growth
December 3, 2024
3pm - 4:30pm CT
Live Online
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Agenda
Welcome
Meet the instructor and fellow attendees in the room
Intro to Facilitation Lecture
The instructor will give a brief talk on the power of facilitation and effective techniques in the workplace
Hands-On Practice
Practice a facilitation method in a live breakout session with fellow attendees
Next Steps
Plan your facilitation and collaborative leadership growth
Who Should Attend
New & Experienced Managers
Who want to understand how facilitation skills can enhance their career and team’s collaboration
Product & Project Managers
Who want to steer stakeholders to the best outcomes
Chiefs of Staff
Who want to align and support initiatives across departments
Teachers & Trainers
Who want to design the most impactful learning
Key Takeaways
Learn what facilitation is and its connection to collaborative leadership
Explore how facilitation skills ignite career growth and leadership success
Practice fundamental facilitation techniques to drive impact
Draft a plan for your facilitation and collaborative leadership growth
Featured Facilitators
Erik Skogsberg
Erik believes that a deep empathy and caring, rooted in human-centered design, systems thinking, and futures thinking best supports partners in finding their solutions. Erik is passionate about supporting clients imagining innovative approaches to complex organizational challenges.
Trained as an educator, designer, researcher, and change agent, he brings significant teaching, design, mentoring, professional learning and development, organizational change, and research experiences from across secondary, higher education, non-profit, and industry contexts. Whether working with individuals, teams, or organizations, he helps people design lasting growth and innovation. Prior to working with Voltage Control, he co-founded Michigan State University’s Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology, an internal design consultancy focused on learning experience design, innovation, and organizational transformation.
He earned his B.A. in English Literature from Western Washington University, M.A.T. in Secondary English Education from Brown University, and Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education.
Trained as an educator, designer, researcher, and change agent, he brings significant teaching, design, mentoring, professional learning and development, organizational change, and research experiences from across secondary, higher education, non-profit, and industry contexts. Whether working with individuals, teams, or organizations, he helps people design lasting growth and innovation. Prior to working with Voltage Control, he co-founded Michigan State University’s Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology, an internal design consultancy focused on learning experience design, innovation, and organizational transformation.
He earned his B.A. in English Literature from Western Washington University, M.A.T. in Secondary English Education from Brown University, and Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education.
In Partnership With
Miro
Miro is the online workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to dream, design, and build the future together.
What People are Saying
"It's such a safe space and such an energizing space, where you learn from each other, you have the ability to try things, to be participating, and in a very open dialogue, just learn. It's a learning community that I think is very energizing to be part of."
Dirk Van Onsem
VP Key Sports EMEA at Nike
"It's just an amazing place to meet people and grow your network."
Lipika Grover
Leadership Coach & Consultant
Photo Disclaimer
Please note that photographs, video & audio recordings will be taken throughout this event. These will be used by Voltage Control for marketing and publicity in our publications, on our website and in social media, or in any third party publication. Please contact our events manager if you have any concerns or if you wish to be exempted from this activity.
