Glenda M. Francis | Certified Professional Life Coach, ACC & CPC
Creator of the ARISE© Coaching Model

Facilitation

Effective facilitation not only improves productivity and the bottom-line, but yields enormous potential in transforming the way people think, craft, behave, and engage. Here’s what you can expect:

Facilitation Services:

  • ✓ Special Meetings
  • ✓ Planning Sessions
  • ✓ Workshops & Institutes
  • ✓ Team-Building
  • ✓ Staff Retreats

Facilitation:

  • ✓ Pre-planning including review of background documents, interviews, meetings, and pre-visits as appropriate to tailor the facilitation to your unique contexts and needs. No two contexts or groups are identical; customization is key.
  • ✓ Agreement with key stakeholders about norms of engagement including management of dominant types.
  • ✓ Collaboration with leaders as the facilitation meeting unfolds to adapt plans as appropriate towards the attainment of desired goals.
  • ✓ Applications of adult learning theories, coaching frameworks and principles (e.g., systems thinking, appreciative inquiry), and mindful, self-assured presence to support learning, engagement, and stretch.
  • ✓ Democratic, inclusive facilitation that fosters a culture of vulnerability, risk- taking, and community-bonding.
  • ✓ Publication of a post-session facilitation report along with follow-up.

Recent Facilitation Project:

Global Leadership Institute™: Personal & Leadership Development Series, Cultural Connections™

 

 

In addition to crafting the Leadership Series curriculum, Glenda also facilitated the 3, 2-hour modules for both the high school and university cohorts. While both groups experienced the same curriculum, Glenda differentiated the experience to accommodate the learning needs and styles by adjusting the pace, modifying power point slides, and coaching the HS group while in breakout groups on how to give effective feedback.

 

Key Performance Indicators:

    • ✓ Creation, refinement, and presentation of Self-Portraits to diverse peer audience that reflect evolving self-knowledge especially with regard to character strengths, leadership development, and global competency.
    • ✓ Application of program rituals and key tasks to support their ongoing personal and leadership development (e.g., mindful breathing, setting intentions, presentation readiness, and consensus-building).
    • ✓ Facilitation of peer breakout groups to achieve consensus on a public health engagement campaign and acquisition of the skills, dispositions, and mindset of consensus building.

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  • "Through our Personal Leadership Development series, we strive to help young people participate in global spaces with confidence. By focusing on character strengths, Glenda empowered our high school and university students to identify their unique talents and to understand that continual growth is within their power."

    Rayda Marquez and Erin Friedman, co-founders, Cultural Connections

  • "Glenda’s facilitation of the series created a positive mindset shift in our students, helping them to engage in a self-assured manner in our program. As expressed in their reflections, they have already begun to apply these tools in other aspects of school, work, and life.”

    Rayda Marquez and Erin Friedman, co-founders, Cultural Connections

  • “I think that each session impacts in different ways, the first session impacted me because we were talking about being aware and moving that awareness to action and helped me to clarify that actions are more important than awareness in order to make good changes. The second session we talked about strengths and how to use them and this session helped me a lot to know about my strengths and know that I can use them to complete my goals. The last session we talked about consensus and this showed me a new way to establish agreements where all the stakeholders can be satisfied and agree unanimously.”

    Youth Participant

  • “I have learned a lot [i]n this program such as learning to give and receive feedback, breathing techniques in order to calm down in my presentations, listening to others, and being focused on what they're saying and using my strengths to resolve any problem."

    Youth Participant

  • “My self-concept has been improved by the results that I was given in the VIA [survey], now I’m able to work on those elements that are not as strong as the top strengths. I also am aware that my feedback was being improved by the exercise of giving my peers some observations and my [fear] at the time of speaking is relatively minor than before I learned the new technique of breathing."

    Youth Participant

  • “Actually, I follow learning about those leadership skills that I need to make a difference around the world. Now, I am passionate about contributing to finding solutions for those social, political, and economic issues that my community is facing.”

    Youth Participant

  • “To be honest, in the beginning, I did not want to take this program because I was suffering some anxiety attacks and I started to have many inner conflicts. Actually, I had not ever seen myself as a leader until this program start[ed] and I discovered what makes me unique and how those features are the tools for making the difference."

    Youth Participant

  • “While the program was going [on], I started to feel totally different. I began to feel proud about who I am without taking care of my weaknesses. I mean, my potential awoke and the conversations with my mind changed positively."

    Youth Participant