THE ART AND SCIENCE OF FACILITATION

SIM X SIM ACAD

Course overview

THE ART AND SCIENCE OF FACILITATION
Categories

Self-Management

programme type
Course date

10-04-2025 to 11-04-2025

28-08-2025 to 29-08-2025

degree award
Provider

SIM ACAD

academic level
Course type

Instructor-Led

projected fees
Course fee

(including GST)

Member Total Fee (inc. 9% gst) : $740.11
Non-Member Total Fee (inc. 9% gst) : $924.32

funding subsidy
Funding/Subsidy

N.A

Course Overview

Facilitation is a process of engaging groups to work cooperatively and effectively together and the emphasis is in the involvement of participants in a meaningful manner.

The word ‘facilitator’ comes from the Latin –facilitas, which means ‘easiness’. Thus a facilitator is a catalyst for better group interactions; the role isn’t about providing knowledge or ideas but helping participants make better use of the knowledge and ideas that they collectively possess.

Facilitation processes require a number of different roles to be effective. Several roles can be filled by one person or an entire team can be dedicated to one particular role, depending on the size of the process and the resources available.

 

To ease these role the facilitation skills encompasses the ‘soft’ communications skills to be applied to unfold the responses from the teams or groups managed.

 

Facilitation is also the act of engaging participants in creating, discovering, and applying learning insights. Facilitation usually involves a “guide on the side” who asks questions, moderates discussions, introduces activities, and helps participants learn. These evolving skill are important for talent development professionals who conduct facilitate team projects, task forces, committees, and meetings of any type.

 

“We cannot teach people anything, we can only help them to discover it within themselves.- Galileo Galilei

Course benefits

BUSINESS OUTCOMES


l Achieve business key results through collaborative work ethics

l Equip staff with competencies to face challenges and resolve the issues at ease to be productive.

l Up-skill and re-skill the employees in the Organisations

l Create a work life balance environment with motivated staff 

l Increase in the quality of performance by staffs

l Increase in job satisfaction which leads to quality contribution. 


LEARNING OUTCOMES


l Define facilitation and identify its purpose

l Differentiate between Directive and Facilitative approaches

l Identify the benefits of facilitation

l Describe the Roles of a facilitators

l Differentiate between process & content of a group discussion

l Identify and apply techniques for preparing for an effective facilitation

l Master techniques for effective facilitation from Tuckman & Jensen's stages of group development (forming, storming, norming & performing

l Manage group dynamics (disruptions, dysfunctions & difficult situations)

l Apply techniques to gain consensus and collaborative solutions

l Apply single and double loop constructive feedback

l Monitor and support for continuous improvement of performance

 

(Learning outcomes would be adjusted and pitched at various levels according to the Target Audience)

Course outline

This program is designed either for 2 or 3 days with simplified practical techniques to be applied in daily work life management of staff within an organisation. The program would provide the facilitator a clear goal for the event and ensuring that all in attendance have a valid purpose to be there gives the facilitator more confidence for tackling the task at hand. That confidence trickles down to the team, giving them the courage to navigate the unknowns of complex problem-solving.

Duration

2 days

Course runs

Who should attend?

Level 1 - Admin & Support
Level 2 - Supervisor, Executive, & Emerging Managers
Level 3 - New Managers
Level 4 - Managers
Level 5 - Senior Managers & Directors
Level 6 - C-Suite

Programme leader

Kala Manickam graduated with a Master of Arts (Lifelong Learning) from University of London. She acquired thirty (30) years of working experience in the areas of Human Resource Management and Learning Development.

 

She is a Specialist Adult Educator for Eighteen (18) years and still on this path of profession, which is a calling for her where she advocate that her destiny is to tap on individual potential and to advocate self-change in individuals to experience the beauty of personal and professional aspirations.

 

She has contributed both in Public and Private Sectors of the organizations. She opted to join the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) as a challenge and had contributed as Platoon Commander, Human Resource and Development Officer and a Staff Officer.

 

After seven (7) fulfilling years in the SAF, she moved to the private sector, Plant Engineering Construction Pte Ltd as a Learning and Development Executive. She created an On-Job Training centre and got it certified with ITE. Next she moved to the Nursing Learning and Development Department in the Health Care Sector, (Singapore General Hospital & National Heart Centre). She identified the leadership skill gaps through the Learning Needs Analysis for the Nurses for local and overseas deployments. She also curated the competencies required to close the gaps for Organisation needs.

 

She left the cooperate sector and embarked on a career to be an Adult Educator, where she was in partnership with established Continuing Education and Training (CET) Institutions in Singapore such as Institute for Adult Learning (IAL), NTUC Learning Hub, Singapore Civil Service Collage (CSC), Singapore Institute of Management (SIM), Singapore Quality Centre (SQ), Singapore National Employers’ Federation (SNEF) , Kaplan Learning Institute, Training Vision Institute Pte Ltd and many other Organisations who engaged my learning and development services directly.

 

She has a special interest in workplace learning and was selected to attend a Workplace Learning Study Trip to Germany in 2018 which inspired her to the next lap to actualise the competencies of the workforce at work. She was appointed as Skills Mentor by Enterprise Singapore where she facilitated a holistic touch for the growing Small and Medium Enterprises to develop the unique selling proposition of the organisation and had provided guidance and advisories in creating a workplace learning and performance culture.

 

All these years of exposures had enhanced her expertise to review and identify the competency gaps unique to each Organisation which was facilitated in consultation with the respective department subject matter expertise. She curated the competencies to equip the Organisation workforce with current knowledge, skills and ability through micro leaning and credentialing for sustainability and progression in this robust competitive environment. This involves extensive research to scope the competencies to shape the workforce for workplace learning and performance for collaborative transformation with industry 5.0 where advancement in technologies remained significant in the creation of the competencies and the trend of “human touch” which is also be in demand in our workforce of 2035. (refer to attached researched Literature). Due to automation of many processes she advocate and facilitate job redesign too for organisations as highlighted by our PM Lee Hsien Loong “We cannot save every job to be replaced by Technology, but we can save every worker with job redesigning.

Course fee

Programme Executive In Charge : Patricia Lee

Telephone number : 6248 9447

Email : patricialee@sim.edu.sg


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