Facilitation Skills for Project Managers (Part 1 & 2) : Virtual Edition

This course is specifically designed for project managers and individuals leading project-based sessions, equipping them with tools to effectively prepare, execute, and conclude impactful project meetings. Participants will learn to foster engagement, manage dysfunction, build consensus, and adapt techniques for both virtual and hybrid environments. Key areas of focus include transforming discussions into actionable outcomes, mastering an energetic facilitation pace, ensuring clarity on decisions and next steps, navigating common project management pitfalls like scope creep and conflict, and mastering hybrid/remote session engagement. The curriculum emphasizes the core essentials of solution process, leadership process, and teamwork to address common issues such as unclear meeting purposes and lack of stakeholder alignment

This session will introduce key concepts and pains specific to project managers, focusing on how to:

• Transform meetings into momentum: Turn discussions into actionable outcomes that drive projects forward.
• Master the rhythm of facilitation: Learn how to set and sustain an energetic pace that keeps teams focused and engaged.
• Close with clarity: Ensure decisions stick, next steps are clear, and stakeholders leave aligned.
• Navigate common PM pitfalls: Mitigate scope creep, diffuse conflicts, and manage dominant personalities.
• Hybrid/remote mastery: Adapt techniques for virtual environments without sacrificing engagement.

• Ideal for project managers seeking to transform meetings into momentum-builders, ensuring decisions stick and teams leave aligned and motivated to execute on project goals