Events

Event Information:

• 金

  16

  3月

  2018

  土

  17

  3月

  2018

  SPOTlight on Facilitation (English)

  3:00 AMGranpark Conference 303 Conference Room, Tokyo

  Facilitation is the art and science of helping groups be more effective in their meetings and decision-making.
  The tools and processes applied in facilitation encourage groups to use their diverse backgrounds, values, interests and capabilities to make higher quality decisions, increase their productivity, and improve their group dynamics.
  In short, facilitation enhances the interactions between individuals and groups in order to focus on results.
  

  What you will experience	•Learn everything you need to know about global standard facilitation process, methods, tools and core practices •Gain knowledge of Facilitation 4 layers process Clarify requirement, Design agenda, Deliver facilitation, and Debrief •Learn how to use 14 fundamental tools for effective facilitation •Learn how to manage key factors for better facilitation “S.P.O.T” Space, Process, Objectives, Time. •Practice facilitating demo sessions for a diverse, multicultural group in English •Enhance core practices through role play practices •Receive feedback from our certified master facilitators and your fellow learners *This workshop is conducted in English.
  For Whom	This course will enhance your capability as global leader, manager, trainer, consultant, whoever tries to help the group yield creative discussion by applying facilitation. The attributes of past attendees are as below – IT department leaders or engineers in charge of global issues – HR department leaders or staffs in charge of global issues – Sale leader or staffs involved in international sales activities – R&D researchers who work together with various counties’ staffs – Employees who will be transferred to outside Japan – Professional involved in teaching, training, coaching, consulting and
  Date/Time	16 Friday- 17 Saturday March 9:00-18:00
  Venue	Granpark Conference 303 Conference Room Tamachi Grand Park Plaza Building Level3 3-4-1 Shibaura Minato-ku, Tokyo
  Seating capacity	16 participants
  Organizer	Knowledge Signs Co Ltd
  Facilitators	Janice Lua Co-founder of Facilitators Network Singapore (FNS) Stefan Nüsperling Hideyuki Yoshioka (Bilingual co-facilitator)
  Attending fee	•Early Bird Price 108,000 yen(Registration by January 31) •Regular Price 118,800 yen(Registration after February 1) *Including tax *Payment in advance basically needed.

  ⇒Registration Form
  ⇒Registration via Peatix

  Group Process Facilitation is a rapidly expanding worldwide profession that plays a vital role in the workings of business, government and communities across the globe.
  There is a growing demand for global leaders who can help groups accept diversity, build consensus, maximize participation and move toward action.

  #5 Reasons Global Leaders NEED Facilitation Skills

  1.To help groups focus on a common objective under the diverse situation

  2.To assist in planning and making decision for more critical topics

  3.To help groups generate and synthesize ideas by borrowing diverse perspective

  4.To manage conflict that comes from the difference of cultural background

  5.To encourage groups implement action plans by assuring collaborative environment

   

  For Whom

  This course will be life changing for everyone who wants to excel in the following areas:
  
  – Facilitating meetings, workshops, & trainings that engage all participants

  – Organizing and Designing workshops, offsite meetings and trainings which invite various back ground groups across the globe.

  – Applying facilitative style to management, consulting, Teaching, training or any other professions.

  – Teaching learners in an engaging and facilitative way encouraging self determination

  The attributes of past attendees are as below
  – IT department leaders or engineers in charge of global issues
  – HR department leaders or staffs in charge of global issues
  – Sale leader or staffs involved in international sales activities
  – R&D researchers who work together with various counties’ staffs
  – Employees who will be transferred to outside Japan
  – Professional involved in teaching, training, coaching, consulting

  What you will learn

  Practical facilitation method

  SPOT on facilitation is original method by Prabu Naidu and Janice Lua, which enhances you to acquire basic and practical facilitation.
  This workshop contains a plenty of outcomes as below

  ●4D Facilitation Model defines facilitation process as below.

  D1: Determine Requirement
  D2: Design the Session
  D3: Deliver & Debrief the Session
  D4: Discover New Learning(by Facilitator)

  You can learn fundamentals of facilitation according to these 4D steps

  
  ©2003-2017 Facilitators Network Singapore

  ●How to manage important factors for creative environment, S.P.O.T (Space, Process, Outcome, Time)
  ●14 effective tools for Divergent & Convergent process
  ●Core practices to demonstrate functional facilitation
  ●How to determine objective, output and business outcome
  ●How to design appropriate agenda
  ●Best practice tips in using the flip chart and other process facilitation tools
  ●Effective facilitation techniques for a diverse audience in English

  　　　　

  Practical Training

  On Day2, you will have facilitation demo-practices using commonly occurring business situations cases.
  Partciipants with beak-out groups are needed to design process facilitation on your own way with the suggestion of process tools.
  In order to design the process, group members have to consent like actuall meeting.
  After the demonstration, participants will have constructive feedback from peers and coaches.

  Group dynamics under the diversity situation

  Participants will join from not only Japan but also various countries. Under the diversity, you can learn how to enhance group dynamics.

  Workshop Flow

  Day 1
  -Definition of facilitation and the 4D facilitation model
  -4 key factors of process facilitation, S.P.O.T (Space, Process, Outcome, Time)
  -Core practices of a facilitator
  -Flipchart and other creative visual aid best practices
  -Introduction to the basic process tools for facilitating discussions

  Day 2
  -Practice the basic process tools
  -Determine clients’ requirements in a facilitated process
  -Practice: facilitation demo-practice with break-out groups using case study
  -360 degrees feedback

  #Quick report of the past workshop page is here.
  Quick Report of Global Facilitation Workshop “SPOT on Facilitation in Japan” on 23-25 June 2016.

  You can join continuous learning community as SPOT alumni

  All participants automatically become a part of the SPOT on Facilitation in Japan alumni community gaining access to on-going opportunities for practicing global facilitation.
  We constantly organize SPOT Alumni Gathering in every other month.
  This is the past SPOT Alumni Gathering report

   

  Facilitators

  Janice Lua　　Co-founder of Facilitators Network Singapore (FNS)

  

  Janice Lua has a MSc (UK) in Technology Management and a MBA (Australia) in Entrepreneurial Management with more than 10 years experience facilitating organisation-wide change management, business process re-engineering, team building, creativity & innovation & strategic planning. She has facilitated regionally on social issues using methods such as The World Café, Open Space Technology and Future Search processes. She is a Senior National Business Excellence Assessor, Certified Management Consultant, Qualified Strengths
  Deployment Inventory® Facilitator, PMI certified Project Management Professional, IAF Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF), an INIFAC Certified Master Facilitator (CMF) and CMF Assessor, and licensed Dynamic Facilitation Instructor. She co-founded the Facilitators Network in 2004 to upscale the competencies of facilitators in Singapore and the region. She co-authored SPOT on Facilitation.

  Stefan Nüsperling

  Stefan is a trilingual (German, English, Japanese) IT-Professional with more than 10 years of experience in Change Management, Agile Methodologies, Facilitation and Management 3.0. He has worked with multinational enterprises in the fields of Leadership as well as Software Development in Japan, South Korea and Germany. As a certified Scrum Master and the first licensed Management 3.0 facilitator in Japan he helps people to give them the ability to improve their organizations into innovative, high-performing and fun places to work.
  He has run more than 30 public and in-house facilitated workshops in Japan with an average rating of 8.5 (of 10.0).

  Hideyuki Yoshioka A bilingual co-facilitator
  A organizer of this workshop, CEO of Knowledge Signs Co Ltd

  

  Born in Kobe City, 1963.Graduated from the department of business administration of Kobe University
  in 1986. Firs career was built in Recruit Co. ltd., well known as “the most ambitious company bringing
  out many entrepreneurs in Japan”. Founded Knowledge Signs Co. Ltd. in 2003.
  Hideyuki has been actively involved in facilitation for over 14 years specializing in applying facilitation skills
  to presentation training, sales training and project management training. Since 2013, he has presented
  at the IAF (The International Association of Facilitators) Asia Conference for 3 years.
  -IAF Certified Professional facilitator (CPF)
  -SPOT on Facilitation certified trainer

  Text Book SPOT on Facilitation

  

  SPOT on facilitation shows 4 key elements for process facilitation Space, Process, Outcome, Time.
  And it introduces many useful tools for process facilitation.
  Participants can learn core competencies for a facilitator and learn how to use a plenty of methods and tools from SPOT on facilitation during workshop.
  And also in actual business scenes you will be able to apply many methods and tools referring SPOT on facilitation.

  For Registration

  Date/Time	16 Friday- 17 Saturday March 9:00-18:00
  Venue	Granpark Conference 303 Conference Room Tamachi Grand Park Plaza Building Level3 3-4-1 Shibaura Minato-ku, Tokyo
  Seating capacity	16participants
  Organizer	Knowledge Signs Co Ltd
  Facilitators	Janice Lua Co-founder of Facilitators Network Singapore (FNS) Stefan Nüsperling Hideyuki Yoshioka(Bilingual co-facilitator)
  Attending fee	118,800 yen（Incluging tax） Payment in advance basically needed.

   

  ⇒Registration Form
  ⇒Registration via Peatix

  Venue

  Granpark Conference 302 Conference Room
  Tamachi Grand Park Plaza Building Level3 3-4-1 Shibaura Minato-ku, Tokyo

  5 minutes to walk from Tamachi Station on JR Line
  7 minutes to walk from Mita Station on Subway Toei Asakusa Line/Mita Line