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## Remove Barriers.
## Deliver Results.
What if your strategic plan didn't just anticipate the future, but shaped it?
Accelerate Your Growth
Strategic Planning
What if you could shatter the toughest obstacles to achieving your goals?
Discover the Power of Facilitation
Meeting Facilitation
What if your team could transform every challenge into an opportunity for growth?
Training for Teams
What if you could collaborate seamlessly, communicate clearly, drive results,
and inspire action?
Soft Skills Training
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## Level Up with Facilitation
## ...but what is facilitation?
Facilitation is the science of guiding groups to success. A skilled facilitator creates an environment where ideas flourish, collaboration thrives, and common goals are achieved. Whether steering discussions, fostering learning, or driving decision-making, facilitation transforms group dynamics to deliver powerful results.
## Achieve Better Results with Facilitation and Soft-Skills Training
With Leadership Strategies’ focus on meeting facilitation and soft-skills training, you’re not just improving processes – you’re driving real business outcomes through:
* Improved collaboration and communication
* Faster, more effective decisions
* Increased buy-in and commitment to action.
Let Leadership Strategies and our team of expert facilitators be your partner in unlocking your company’s full potential, yielding better results across your entire organization through enhanced meeting facilitation and soft-skills training.
#### Training for Groups
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Is your organization held back by ineffective meetings, poor decision-making, and lackluster problem-solving? Leadership Strategies is here to transform your team’s dynamics and drive unprecedented success.
Our dynamic training tackles common workplace challenges head-on and delivers results that help you:
#### Training for Yourself
By focusing on developing your facilitation soft-skills, you’re not just improving your ability to run meetings – ***you’re investing in your overall professional growth***. These skills are transferable across industries and roles, making you more adaptable and valuable in an ever-changing job market.
Facilitation skills could be the key to unlocking your professional growth and elevating your impact in any team setting.
Investing in facilitation soft-skills puts the power in your hands to:
## Leadership Strategies Delivers Impactful Results.
*But where do you start?* This is the conflict that many of our clients face—the gap between where they are and where they want to be.
Partner with Leadership Strategies to **guide you and your team through navigating organizational challenges**, often caused by bad meetings culture and poor strategic planning.
### **Leadership Strategies’ Mission:**
We empower our clients to collaborate more effectively and achieve transformative results through better decision-making, with higher levels of buy-in and commitment.
#### Leadership Strategies Insights
## Evolving Every Step
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## Clients Love Leadership Strategies
## CLIENT VOICES
"My toolkit for successfully doing my job has been expanded in a meaningful way and I learned practices that I can carry with me throughout my career and even in my personal life!"
Claire M.NOAA
"I have personally gained so much--and delivered so much value to the teams I've worked with--from the facilitation training I received at Leadership Strategies. What a great investment it has been. If you lead team discussions, planning, brainstorming, or decision-making processes, this training is excellent."
Alex S.LIFT Healthcare
“The training from Leadership Strategies has given our staff practical skills for running effective meetings. More importantly, it provided insight for making decisions and leading a group.”
Rob B.Chief Operating Officer, Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library
"Leadership strategies provided an amazing course for me and my coworker as we are both new to our position. Our new position requires us to facilitate workshops on change management and I now feel that I have the facilitation tools necessary to host these meetings. I now feel confident about my facilitation skills and I feel like I can be a better leader, not only in our workshops, but in our day-to-day meetings... hope I get the chance to attend another Leadership Strategies class in the future!"
Biana MullinsNIH
"I spent the week with some exceptional professionals in an intensive 4-day leadership facilitation course. I’m happy to share that I am now a graduate of "The Effective Facilitator" from Leadership Strategies! I've left with a new set of tools and techniques that will ensure productive meetings/events and the ability to achieve desired outcomes in an engaging format."
Michelle P.Business Development Manager
## Better Collaboration.
## Better Results.
Embark on a transformative journey with us. Acquire the knowledge, apply it with confidence, and take full ownership of your success.
### Together, we'll redefine what's possible.
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## Find a class date & location.
Our world-class training courses are available in both in-person and virtual formats.  We teach individuals and teams proven techniques and fundamental skills that help improve their career development, boost collaboration, and achieve amazing results. Our courses are designed and taught by industry experts who have years of experience in their respective fields.
### **To view our 2025 course calendar, please use the yellow arrow next to 2024 below:**
### 2025
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Jan 27 – Jan 30 – Atlanta, GA
Feb 18 – Feb 21 – Fairfax, VA
Feb 24 – Feb 27 – Atlanta, GA
Mar 10 – Mar 13 – Chicago, IL
Mar 24 – Mar 27 – Washington, D.C.
Apr 7 – Apr 10 – Atlanta, GA
Apr 21 – Apr 24 – Washington, D.C.
May 19 – May 22 – Seattle, WA
May 19 – May 22 – Washington, D.C.
Jun 2 – Jun 5 – Atlanta, GA
Jun 9 – Jun 12 – Denver, CO
Jun 23 – Jun 26 – Washington, D.C.
Jul 14 – Jul 17 – Chicago, IL
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Aug 11 – Aug 14 – Atlanta, GA
Aug 18 – Aug 21 – Washington, D.C.
Aug 18 – Aug 21 – Denver, CO
Sep 15 – Sep 18 – Atlanta, GA
Sep 22 – Sep 25 – Seattle, WA
Sep 22 – Sep 25 – Washington, D.C.
Sep 29 – Oct 2 – Las Vegas, NV
Oct 20 – Oct 23 – Atlanta, GA
Oct 27 – Oct 30 – Washington, D.C.
Nov 18 – Nov 21 – Washington, D.C.
Dec 1 – Dec 4 – Atlanta, GA
Dec 8 – Dec 11 – Washington, D.C.
Feb 10 – Feb 13 – Virtual
Apr 22 – Apr 25 – Virtual
Jun 9 – Jun 12 – Virtual
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Aug 25 – Aug 28 – Virtual
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Jun 9 – Jun 11 – Atlanta, GA
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Jun 12 – Jun 13 – Atlanta, GA
Apr 29 – May 1 – Virtual
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Apr 15 – Apr 17 – Atlanta, GA
May 13 – May 14 – Virtual
Mar 3 – Mar 4 – Virtual
Oct 20 – Oct 21 – Virtual
### Logistics and Accommodations
## Year after year, our clients rave about our instructors and our courses.
**Danielle F.**
> “If you are considering enhancing your skills by working with Leadership Strategies, I propose you make a plan and GO…. It will change the way in which you deliver results.”
**5.5 out of 7 stars – Instructor rating since 1993**
**75%** of participants rated our flagship course as “the best” or “one of the best” courses they’ve taken.
**Patrick Pierce**
> “If you have not experienced the talent and grace presented in a strategy session from @leadstrat, do it. It’s not just a fun and rewarding time, but yields unparalleled results. Keep doing what you do Michael Wilkinson.”
# The Effective Facilitator
### Our Most Popular Training Workshop
The first Course Accredited by The International Institute of Facilitation (INIFAC) for Covering the 30 Certified Master Facilitator™ (CMF) Competencies.
**Learn the techniques our facilitators use to help you and your teams achieve amazing results**
The Effective Facilitator is Leadership Strategies most popular facilitation training workshop.  It’s popularity and longevity is a result of one thing: **This course drives results!**
In today’s rapidly changing workplace culture, organizations must recognize the increasing significance of “soft-skills” training for their success. While technical training is straightforward, the true solution lies in understanding the importance of facilitation and soft-skills. The Effective Facilitator offers a wealth of tools to address common pain points, including:
* Keys to leading better meetings
* Strategies of successful communication
* Ability to motivate your team to success
* Gaining buy-in and vested interest within your team or organization
* Establishing the path to achieving realistic and workable solutions
#### Explore the schedule of 2024 Effective Facilitator public training workshops by scrolling to the bottom of this page. Join us and enhance your facilitation skills!
## Virtual Edition
### The Effective Facilitator: Virtual Edition
This online, instructor-led version of our flagship course consists of 4 days of virtual training. The class covers the 10 principles of facilitation, more than 100 techniques, and includes 6 exercises with instruction on how to apply the skills in virtual environments.
Gain the tools and techniques to: create a vision that motivates people to action, engage groups in developing solutions and generate ownership that leads to results. Participants will learn a comprehensive approach top facilitators use to prepare for success, get a session started, focus the group, understand the power of the pen, gather information, manage dysfunction, build consensus, maintain high energy, close the session, and construct customized agendas.
Learn How To:
* Get groups to develop and agree upon workable, realistic plans or solutions to issues.
* Create a vision that motivates people to action.
* Engage groups in developing solutions and generate ownership that leads to results.
* Utilize a comprehensive approach used by top facilitators– from getting a session started, to focusing the group, to managing dysfunction, to closing the session.
* Includes insights throughout for virtual sessions
* And much more!
## In Person Edition
### The Effective Facilitator: In Person Edition
This traditional version of our flagship course consists of 4 days of in-person training. The class covers the 10 principles of facilitation, more than 100 techniques, and includes 6 exercises culminating a video-taped practice session.
## Why take The Effective Facilitator?
Are you thinking about taking The Effective Facilitator but are not sure it is the right course for you? Well, watch and listen as our founder counts down what our clients say are the top six reasons to take this course.
## Who will benefit from this course?
### Ideal For:
* Managers
* Facilitators
* Executives
* Trainers
* Consultants
* Sales Professionals
* Analysts
### Needing To:
* Lead a team
* Run better meetings
* Establish a strategic direction
* Establish performance objectives
* Work through conflict/internal strife
* Get a business process operating effectively
* Improve workplace culture
## Why it Works
Unlike other facilitation courses, The Effective Facilitator devotes 80% of its curriculum to learning and practicing the group techniques that separate great facilitators from good ones. Our proprietary approach to training ( Practical, Dynamic, Interactive) ensures you get the results you’re looking for: **Practical** techniques that can be immediately applied; **Dynamic**, high energy instructors; and **Interactive** exercises and practice sessions. To date, more than 95% of attendees rate this course as the BEST or ONE OF THE BEST courses they’ve ever taken!
## Objectives
* Define the role of a facilitator
* Identify the key facilitation principles
* Describe the best practices related to each principle
* Provide students with facilitation practice and performance feedback
## Duration
### 4 Days\*
\*A 3-day streamlined version of this course is also available. The powerful, videotaped exercise is excluded.
## Available Formats
## Additional Information
### No Facilitation Training Course Offers You More!
* ### You get ALL of this when you take The Effective Facilitator:
  + Participant workbook covering 10 principles and over 100 techniques
  + 10 detailed agenda models
  + 6 practice sessions (accompanied with a exercise packet containing sample case studies)
  + Recording of you facilitating a practice session\*
  + The Monthly Touch (now included at no additional cost) – online monthly course to keep you refreshed on the course material
  + Spring Forward – a 60-day check-in to confirm your progress and how you’re implementing your learning
  + The Maximizer – a communication covering one of the course techniques each month
* ### Recommended Additional Training
    – Get the advantage early – master the techniques you’ll learn from The Effective Facilitator virtually in just one extra day of learning.
  ### Why Our Facilitation Training Course Works
  Unlike other facilitation training courses, The Effective Facilitator devotes 80% of its curriculum to learning and practicing the group techniques that separate great facilitators from good ones. We focus on critical skills such as consensus building, keeping the group focused, generating energy, managing dysfunction and gaining agreement.
  Our branded approach to training, The PDI Difference, ensures results through: Practical techniques, Dynamic, high energy instructors, and Interactive exercises and practice sessions. To date, over 95% of attendees have rated this course as THE BEST or ONE OF THE BEST courses they’ve ever taken!
### Want a sneak peek at this class? View the “Introduction to Facilitating Groups” webinar now!
## Training for
* ### Myself/Individual
* ### A Group
* ### Train the Trainer
**4 Days $2,895**
Private classes are fully customizable, taught at your location, and provide the best value for groups of 10 or more. Contact us for more information about scheduling a private class.
\*If you have fewer than 10 people, but still desire a personalized, private learning experience, consider collaborating with other departments in your organization or other organizations near you.
Details coming soon…
Please note both live and virtual classes are available.