FACILITATION AND PRESENTATION SKILLS
COURSE
FACILITATION SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES
Who should attend
The course is for individuals who have been designated to work with clinical and non-clinical groups brought together to achieve significant outcomes or improvements. Clinical service or practice managers, healthcare practitioners, public health professionals, specialty registrars, quality improvement managers, clinical governance, patient safety or clinical audit managers or facilitators also will benefit from participating in the course.
What you learn
A group of people brought together to do a substantial piece of work may benefit from having a skilled facilitator to guide the group in becoming an effective team and in carrying out its work. A competent facilitator also can teach group members practical tools and techniques to enable the group to make decisions, analyse issues and solve problems. The course teaches participants how to use 15 different practical tools and techniques to use with groups and gives guidance on how to be a competent facilitator.
Each participant receives a 164–page Facilitation Skills and Techniques Manual and other materials.
Certificates of completion of the course are provided.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT THIS COURSE
‘The course has given me the confidence, skills and tools to help me
guide my team through its chosen projects.’
‘The techniques were good at making you think through a process that sometimes seems quite difficult.’
‘The practising of facilitation tools applying to real project topics was valuable.’
‘Learning about facilitation in practical terms because here it has meant arranging meetings,
taking minutes, designing questionnaires, inputting data and collecting papers for meetings.’
FACILITATION AND PRESENTATION SKILLS
WORKSHOP
WRITING FOR PUBLICATION
Who should attend
The workshop is intended for staff who have carried out a quality improvement or clinical audit project or a service evaluation study and who want to write either a report or an article about their work. It is also for staff who have to write other important materials such as information for patients or service users.
What you learn
We’ve observed that many people working in their own clinical settings have carried out important improvement projects or clinical audits, evaluation studies or other projects that have really had a significant effect on patient care. Often, the work has been well designed with evidence supporting the benefits.
Surprisingly, the people involved in creating exciting, innovative solutions to longstanding problems don’t think of publishing their work, sometimes because they are so daunted by the publication process.
This workshop is designed for clinical and other staff who have carried out work that merits publication — and want practical help in writing for publication or writing reports or other materials.
Each participant receives a 60–page book that includes principles, reference information and assignments to be done during the workshop.
Certificates of participation in the workshop are provided.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
‘I am quite impressed with the way this workshop was organized.
This is very useful for us and helps us to write for publication.’
‘Found it very helpful to structure a way of starting to write —
makes it easier to break it into little pieces.’
‘Now I have a clear picture on how to prepare various things for a paper.
I have already submitted two papers for publication and both of them rejected.
Now hopefully I can improve the next one. It was really a good programme.’
‘Good ideas and suggestions on initial planning of the whole process.
Handy ‘thesaurus’ to simplify wording.’
FACILITATION AND PRESENTATION SKILLS
WORKSHOP
MAKING A
PRESENTATION OR POSTER
Who should attend
The workshop is intended for staff who have carried out a quality improvement or clinical audit or an evaluation study and want or need to present their work at a meeting or conference.
What you learn
Staff who have completed a quality improvement project (QIP), a clinical audit, or a service evaluation are often asked to present their work in a short presentation or a poster, either for internal purposes within a healthcare organization, or occasionally, at a national or international conference. Giving short presentations and designing and producing posters involve skills that may be new for some staff who are doing a QIP, clinical audit or evaluation study perhaps for the first time.
This workshop is designed for staff who have carried out work that merits presentation — and now want practical help in preparing a short presentation or a poster about their work. It is for staff to learn how to share their learning experience of carrying out a project locally, regionally, nationally or internationally, through a presentation or a poster.
Each participant in the workshop receives a 34–page book that includes practical advice on planning and preparing a presentation or a poster and assignments to be done during the workshop.
Certificates of participation in the workshop are provided.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP
‘Thank you for clarifying how to lay information out and what the audience’s needs are.’
‘Expectations are much clearer now. Excellent.’
‘All the workshop was valuable, gave good advice.’
‘Having to plan and present to peers — scary but so valuable.’