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Summer 2019 | PA 5136 Section 001: Group Process Facilitation for Organizational and Public/Community Engagement (84289)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 1 Credit
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
Extended May Session
Fri,
Sat 08:00AM - 03:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 317
- Enrollment Status:
Open (20 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Group process facilitation components, theories, tools, techniques. Facilitator's role in group goals and processes. Facilitation in public policy. Cross-cultural challenges. Topics may include meeting management, group decision-making, conflict, participatory leadership, and other tools.
- Class Notes:
- Meets Fri, June 7 - Sat, June 8. 8:00-3:00. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?jen+PA5136+Summer2019
- Class Description:
Group process facilitation is used to help groups clarify and accomplish critical objectives and deliverables, achieve exceptional performance, solve complex problems, make high quality decisions, reach consensus, enhance learning and skill building using the strengths and knowledge of the group and help teams move through conflict. This seminar will introduce participants to a wide variety of participatory leadership, group decision making and meeting management theories, tools and techniques used to help groups meet their facilitation goals. Participants in this class will:
Identify and examine key components of facilitation and link facilitation challenges with possible solutions
Have a forum to clarify their facilitation capacities and goals and to share their experiences with each other
- Enhance their facilitation skills and start to develop facilitation strategies for their own work and practice
- Exam Format:
- No exam.
- Class Format:
- The class meets all day Friday and a half-day on Saturday. The first day covers the Art of Participatory Leadership, the role of a facilitator, and team/group dynamics. The second half-day covers how to navigate group and individual conflicts, manage meetings, and how to facilitate strategic planning processes. This class is designed to be interactive with careful consideration of the diverse and collective interests of the participants. The class design allows for different cognitive learning styles, for the special and complex challenges of cross-cultural learning, and for collegial sharing.
This class includes lectures, case studies, a panel discussion, large-group and small-group discussions, and problem-solving exercises. At the end of the class participants will be asked to write a final paper incorporating what they learned during the seminar. Options for the final paper include: Case Summary Paper. This paper demonstrates the student's experience with facilitation and/or strategies for future facilitation.
Investigative Paper. This paper investigates a topic related to facilitation. This paper should include a literature review and practitioner tools related to the topic.
Observation and Analysis Paper. This paper involves: (1) observing a facilitated forum in the community (retreat, strategic planning session, public meeting, etc.); (2) a description and analysis of the session; (3) recommended tools and strategies for improvement.
The final paper is due Monday, July 9.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/84289/1195
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/dorma001_jen_PA5136_Summer2018.docx (Summer 2018)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 3 March 2018
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