Basic Skills Advanced Skills Facilitation Leadership Demonstrates respect of different ideas, Influences whole group to be respectful of personalities and cultural and gender different ideas, personalities and cultural and perspectives gender perspectives Describes the sensitivity and perceptions Demonstrates well developed sensitivity and needed to understand and work with the group perception to group culture and needs culture Communicates and clarifies goals and Obtains group commitment to goals and objectives objectives Establishes and maintains ground rules Maintains role as facilitator (as servant leader) Maintains role as facilitator but can effectively moves between facilitator and other roles Projects confidence and control Demonstrates ability to facilitate relatively Demonstrates ability to facilitate complex simple to moderately complex planning efforts planning efforts Demonstrates ability to facilitate planning Demonstrates ability to facilitate planning efforts with supportive and like-minded efforts with diverse and unsupportive audiences audiences Develop and sustain a productive team environment Process: Communication and Participation Provides opportunities for all participants to be Generates broad participation from all involved using facilitation techniques participants Controls individuals that may dominate Establishes atmosphere that insures broad and discussions equal input into discussions Asks probing questions, addresses critical Proactive in asking critical questions and issues addressing critical issues Quickly summarizes discussions and Quickly synthesizes and distills information information Provides positive criticism Provides positive and strong criticism while maintaining collegial environment Outcomes Recognizes when planning efforts are not Proactively recognizing and redirecting when focused on outcomes, does course correction planning efforts are not focused Recognizes conflict and issues Resolves conflict and tough issues Identifies recurrent themes and connections Identifies and communicates overarching patterns, emerging themes and critical connections amid complex information and relationships 2. Conservation Knowledge To be effective, a conservation coach should have an adequate understanding of conservation principles, systems, strategies and practices, from both a theoretical standpoint and practice.
Basic Skills Advanced Skills Facilitation Leadership Demonstrates respect of different ideas, personalities and cultural and gender perspectives Influences whole group to be respectful of different ideas, personalities and cultural and gender perspectives Describes the sensitivity and perceptions needed to understand and work with the group culture Demonstrates well developed sensitivity and perception to group culture and needs Communicates and clarifies goals and objectives Obtains group commitment to goals and objectives Establishes and maintains ground rules Maintains role as facilitator (as servant leader) Maintains role as facilitator but can effectively moves between facilitator and other roles Projects confidence and control Demonstrates ability to facilitate relatively simple to moderately complex planning efforts Demonstrates ability to facilitate complex planning efforts Demonstrates ability to facilitate planning efforts with supportive and like-minded audiences Demonstrates ability to facilitate planning efforts with diverse and unsupportive audiences Develop and sustain a productive team environment Process: Communication and Participation Provides opportunities for all participants to be involved using facilitation techniques Generates broad participation from all participants Controls individuals that may dominate discussions Establishes atmosphere that insures broad and equal input into discussions Asks probing questions, addresses critical issues Proactive in asking critical questions and addressing critical issues Quickly summarizes discussions and information Quickly synthesizes and distills information Provides positive criticism Provides positive and strong criticism while maintaining collegial environment Outcomes Recognizes when planning efforts are not focused on outcomes, does course correction Proactively recognizing and redirecting when planning efforts are not focused Recognizes conflict and issues Resolves conflict and tough issues Identifies recurrent themes and connections Identifies and communicates overarching patterns, emerging themes and critical connections amid complex information and relationships 2. Conservation Knowledge To be effective, a conservation coach should have an adequate understanding of conservation principles, systems, strategies and practices, from both a theoretical standpoint and practice.
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