Facilitative Leaders: Empower others to work together and achieve common goals through relationships, processes and outcomes.

1. Facilitative
Leadership

2. TRAINING OBJECTIVES
Define Facilitative Leadership
Discuss how Facilitative Leaders can support your work
Identify how Facilitative Leaders center their efforts
Identify and discuss the Principles of Facilitative Leadership
Exercise: Explore YOUR personal strengths as a Facilitative
Leader
Reflect: How can I use today’s lessons in my work/volunteer
efforts
Questions?

3. TRAINING AGREEMENTS
Be open
Show respect
Listen to each other
One person speaks at a time
Silence Cell Phones
Participate
Share experiences
Keep discussion confidential
Give feedback in writing

4. What is A Leader?
“Leadership at its core, is a very simple process of thinking well or
thinking clearly about the situation facing them”
»Sean Ruth

5. A Leadership Style refers to a leader’s way of providing direction,
implementing plans, and motivating people.
LEADERSHIP STYLE
Your style describes HOW you lead.
There are many different leadership
styles.
No one style is correct for all situations.

6. Know how to use the correct
leadership style for a given situation.
Help individuals recognize and
maximize their full potential as team
members.
Energize and engage people by helping
them create a meaningful sense of
purpose and direction in their work.

7. What is
Facilitative
Leadership?

8. Definitions:
LEADER: A person who has
commanding influence
(power).
FACILITATE: To make easy or
possible.

9. A Facilitative Leader:
Facilitative Leaders: Empower others to work together and
achieve common goals through relationships, processes and
outcomes. They make it easier for people to:
•Think, understand, & communicate their thoughts
• Work with others and focus on group goals and outcomes
•Speak up when there are challenges
•Make and carry out decisions
•Allow members to develop their own leadership potential
•Achieve high quality results through the group’s abilities

10. Leadership Is About Having A Vision

11. Leadership Is About Inspiring Trust

12. Leadership Is About Seeing Possibilities

13. Perspective Rectangles Exercise
How many rectangles do you see?

14. Leadership Is About Seeking New
Strategies

15. Key Assumptions
Because Facilitative Leaders manage relationships, processes and
outcomes. It is important that you take time to learn about yourself
so that you can best support others. For example do you understand
your:
•Natural Leadership stance
•Your innate relationship with Conflict
•Your communications strengths and challenges
•Your ability to build trust…quickly
All of these will be tested as you practice
facilitation skills and engage others.
Group Awareness
Facilitative
Leadership

16. Facilitative Leaders Focus On:
Setting
Direction
Inspiring
Commitment

17. Facilitative Leaders Practices:
Set
Direction
Share an
Inspiring Vision
Balance Results,
Process and
Relationships

18. Facilitative Leaders Practices:
Inspire
Commitment
Practice
Appropriate
Maximum
Involvement
Create Pathways
to Action
Facilitate
Agreement

19. Facilitative Leaders Practices:
Build
Capacity
Coach Others for
Success
Celebrate
Accomplishment

20. Setting The Stage for Great Facilitative
Leadership

21. 1) Choose to listen
2) Be an effective listener
3) Don’t interrupt unless necessary
4) Listening requires focus. You are
paying attention to the story, how it is
told, use of language and voice, body
language
5) Summarize to verify mutual
understanding, even where there is
disagreement
6) Don’t impose your solutions, you can
ask if they are interested.
IMPROVE LISTENING SKILLS

22. Encouraging Dialogue vs.
Controlling the Conversation
Encourages CONFLICT Encourages RESOLUTION
CONTROL DIALOGUE

23. • Ask open ended questions that encourage broad thinking and
participation
• Use close-ended questions for details
• Listen actively
• Don’t evaluate
• Be comfortable with silence
• Be observant of body language
• Seek to understand, identify information to resolve conflict
• Offer genuine support
Supporting DIALOGUE

24. •Recognize emotions in others
•Have Fundamental “people skills”
•Have awareness of others’ needs/wants
•Consider others’ feelings as factors in
decision making
•Attempt to put yourself in someone else’s
shoes to feel & understand the person’s
perspective
PRACTICE EMPATHY

25. ACCEPTANCE IS SIMPLY NON-JUDGMENTAL
UNDERSTANDING
…NOT AGREEMENT, sanction, compliance,
sympathy, encouraging, and the like
…is simply seeing something the way it is and
saying, “That’s the way it is.”
PRACTICE ACCEPTANCE

26. How do you measure
as a Facilitative
Leader?

27. Your Development Plan
Share an Inspiring Vision:
Create and communicate an
image of the future and get
others engaged in its pursuit.
Keep the mission out front.
Focus on Results, Process,
Relationships: Build a structure for
performance and satisfaction that
balances what gets done, the way it
happens, and how people treat
each other. The structure should
support continued work when you
are gone.
Seek Maximum Appropriate
Involvement: Leverage the talent
& interests of others around you
by including them appropriately
in the decision making process.
Work to increase trust and
commitment through
engagement.
Model Actions that Aid
Collaboration: Encourage diversity
of opinion and honor individual
perspectives. Help team members
stay focused on the task at hand
through modeling.
Design Pathways to Action:
Guide others in planning how to
solve problems and realize
opportunities. Help people see
alternatives when executing a
plan.
Bring out the Best in Others:
Coach individuals to do their best.
Listen as an ally. Support the
expression of others’ ideas. Work to
overcome obstacles.
Celebrate Accomplishment: Seize the moment to authentically celebrate
small successes. Acknowledge individuals and teams for their
contributions.

28. REFLECTION, QUESTIONS and
PLANNING
• Please share any
reflections from today
• Are there lingering
questions?
• In following sessions we
will discuss:
o Meeting Planning to
support excellent
facilitation
o Facilitation Skills
o Are there other items
we want to add?

29. THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING!