The Process Facilitator: Skills & Techniques to Enhance Collaboration - BrainStorm San Francisco 2012

BrainStorm San Francisco

June 25th thru 28th, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport

Only the agile survive

In today's constantly-changing business environment, only the most agile enterprises stand a chance. At BrainStorm San Francisco, you’ll receive intensive training and workshops covering the real-world skills needed to successfully implement continuous process improvement in any organization.

If you are looking for more than just incremental improvements in your business, join us in San Francisco for an unbiased source of education and insight from the leading experts in the field - and begin building your agile enterprise today.

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What started as a series of conferences has evolved into something more. Educational events designed to give attendees the skills they need to improve their organization’s operational efficiency and advance their own careers, regardless of their current position – from business analyst to CEO.

At BrainStorm San Francisco, we offer a blend of both product-agnostic training and product-specific workshops.

Full-Day Immersion Training - Disciplines and Methodologies
Immerse yourself in the foundations of real-world process improvement. Learn to apply the underlying concepts and principles of proven disciplines and methodologies from the leading experts in the field.

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Half-Day Innovation Workshops - Tools and Techniques
Learn how to evaluate and incorporate the latest state-of-the-art tools and techniques into your specific environment.

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The Process Facilitator: Skills & Techniques to Enhance Collaboration - BrainStorm San Francisco 2012

06/26/2012 - 09:00 From 9AM to 5PM

Whether you are developing a business architecture, creating a process model, leading an improvement team, or running a meeting, great facilitation skills are crucial. You need to be able to keep people engaged, elicit the necessary information, create shared understanding and build consensus all while keeping them focused on the intended goal. Not an easy task.
This 1-day interactive workshop focuses on you – the facilitator. We’ll play with models and techniques that will help you better handle tough issues like managing conflict that arises during meetings, getting folks to make and own decisions, staying on topic and more. So if you’re a project manager, business analyst, architect or leader with a desire to be more collaborative, this workshop is your first step on the road to your own process improvement.

Course Outline:

What’s the role of a process facilitator?
How can you help your team make decisions?
How can you manage conflict that arises?
How can you design meetings that produce results?
How do you keep people engaged and on-track during the work sessions?

Unique Value of Course:

It transforms bad meetings into highly success and productive ones (or no meeting at all). We’ve all experienced bad meetings – some of our own doing. Project Managers, Business Analysts and Architects often find themselves in situations where they are expected by default to know how to facilitate meetings – whether they have the skills or not.
It focuses on the skills needed to elicit knowledge from others while building a shared understanding and agreement. We’re taught how to do the work ourselves, but how can we create a value stream model or process map if we’re not the ones with the subject matter knowledge?
It’s taught by a Certified Professional Facilitator with real-world knowledge and experience stemming from over 15+ years facilitating work sessions. So what you’ll learn is not merely theory, but lessons you can immediately apply to your organization.

Objectives:

To help you assess your strengths and weaknesses as a facilitator.
To build confidence in your ability to run productive meetings that achieve their stated goals.
To augment your tool box with techniques to better enhance collaboration.

Who Should Attend:

This course is designed for anyone who finds themselves in the role of facilitating a meeting, leading a core team, or just needing additional skills to enhance collaboration.

Prerequisites:

BPM 101

About our Innovation Workshop series

Half-Day Innovation Workshops allow practitioners the opportunity to experience leading-edge advancements in process improvement technologies and techniques in an educational setting.

Our curriculum is designed to be a highly interactive, hands-on learning experience covering a range of topics to help you best evaluate and incorporate state-of-the-art tools and techniques into your specific business environment.

Half-Day Innovation Workshops feature:

Hands-on exercises
Software Tool demos
Best practices
Panels
Audience participation
Customer case studies

This event will feature the following Half-Day Innovation Workshops:

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Achieve Success With BPM

How To Break Through The Barriers To BPM Companies worldwide have for generations sought to better manage their key business processes to improve efficiency, insight into their impact, and to achieve greater business flexibility. The introduction...

From 9AM to 12PM

Applying BPM to Transform your Business

BPM can deliver levels of transparency, productivity and accountability across your business. To achieve this, you must start with understanding the actionable, practical and proven steps for process improvement success. Join us as we discuss...

From 2PM to 5PM

Executive Luncheon: Reflections From 2011, Outlook for 2012

From 12PM to 1PM

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Managing Processes and Decisions for Better Business Outcomes

Process improvement is about achieving better business outcomes. Technology is providing powerful capabilities that organizations are using now to quickly and continuously improve customer-facing and back-end operations. The challenge, of course, is that...

From 9AM to 12PM

Birds-of-a-Feather Luncheon: Topical Peer To Peer Discussions

From 12PM to 1PM

Using Business Decision Management to Revolutionize Business Requirements and Processes

The Decision Model is a new Business Logic Framework that impacts not just technology trends but also business management practices. It brings to the world of business rules a well-defined structure based on the inherent nature of logic, extended with...

From 2PM to 5PM

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Capability Mapping

Leveraging a Foundational Business Discipline Capability mapping is commonly recognized as a business-oriented foundation for communication and collaboration, issue analysis and resolution, and prioritization and roadmap creation. Capability mapping...

From 9AM to 12PM

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