Benefits of CAF

Facilitation is about so much more than meetings. With these skills, you can increase the impact and efficiency of any conversation or collaboration. Have better one-on-ones, guide large meetings with competing stakeholders, and make sure you're showing up for your team whenever you meet. It's all possible with strong facilitation know-how.

• Support innovation with effective facilitation in any interaction
• Receive a globally recognized certification to prove your skill set
• Save organizations time and money by guiding focused, productive collaboration
• Guide groups through conflict and varied opinions to reach creative solutions 
• Increase a group's commitment and buy-in by ensuring diverse voices and perspectives are included and valued

The topics covered include:

• What is facilitation?
• Who is a facilitator?
• Understanding Group’s Context and Needs
  • Before facilitation
  • During facilitation
  • After facilitation
• The Orientation of a Facilitator
  • From the front
  • From the back
  • From the inside
• Facilitating through Conflict
• Forwarding the Action
• Facilitation Practice

Who should take CAF?

Make sure all voices are heard. Establish psychological safety. Create better meetings. If you’re passionate about facilitation, CAF lets you follow your passion so you can make a real difference. Many careers, industries, and teams need people who know how to facilitate.

Any professional involved in collaboration can benefit from the skill set covered in this course. Facilitation skills support your ability to contribute to meaningful conversations and interactions at work, ultimately helping your team and organization tackle complex problems.

• Anyone who wants to build highly relevant facilitation skills to have more impactful conversations, meetings, and interactions at work
• Scrum masters, product owners, scrum team members
• People leading teams
• Professional facilitators
• Current and aspiring agile coaches
• Agile consultants
• Agile team members
• Certified Scrum Professionals (CSP-SM, CSP-PO, CSP-D), especially those seeking to validate an important skill set on their journey to certified agile coaching