Facilitation Skills for Executives

Powerful methods to build commitment

Complex problems need input from many perspectives. Giving input into decisions increases people’s commitment to implement those decisions. It also increases understanding and the ability to change directions more quickly and effectively.  Therefore leaders need the skill to get employees to give good input and advice.

We offer both in-house and public seminars on leading facilitation learning topics. In the coming months in 2011, we offer the following exciting growth & capacity building experiences. Please tick the box(es) next to the program(s) you are enrolling.

Facilitation Skills for Executives is a one day course that demonstrates the powerful skills and methods used by professional facilitators to get vital input on a wide variety of difficult issues. Learn the specialized techniques of the world’s best consultants to draw out information from employees and stakeholders in a way that is natural, safe and creates commitment. Save time and money by getting valuable input from the right employees at the right time and finding solutions to potentially crippling problems.

The tools and skills in this course will be of great value to:

•  Leaders who have to steer a large group though complex change.

•  Executives who need to get group input into crucial decisions.

•  Managers who need to create departmental or workgroup commitment.

The Journey/ Solution Design

Benefits

After taking this course you will be able to:

• Get employees to share vital information fully
• Lead productive conversations on difficult and divisive issues safely
• Fully explore long and short range implications and options
• Move groups to decisions and consensus about complex problems
• Generate commitment to implementation

Who Should Attend

Executives, leaders, managers  - who need to tap into depth of thinking and breadth of ideas; to build shared understanding, purpose and commitment for common success.

Facilitator: Keke Quei

Founder and CEO of Kinnogene™ Inc. & All@1™ Design Factory, CMF

Keke’s passion and focus is always on Sustainability and Social Development delivered with facilitated action learning coaching projects & social network technologies.

Keke worked with Dr. Philip Kotler and Mr. Milton Kotler at “Branding Taiwan 2006” in facilitating discussions amongst the working officials and academics Group for continued dialogues as part of the Branding Taiwan Project hosted by TaiTra.

As World Bank- IFC SME Capacity Building Project Consultant and Master Trainer for China Project Development Facility (CPDF), Keke developed the Chinese Train-The-Trainer packages in Marketing, Human Resources, and Personal Productivity, and certified/trained the trainers in western China as part of IFC’s capacity building project initiatives. The IFC SME Marketing DIY Handbooks were published by Shanghai Science & Technology Publishing Company where Keke was the adviser of.

Keke FACILITATES Action Learning & Coaching Projects, as well as Strategic Management and Planning processes with Future Search, AGILE, Appreciative Inquiry & Participative Strategic Planning Approaches, and with her many innovatively design interventions.  Keke is part of the SOL and works with Peter Senge at his yearly China Executive Champion Workshop on sustainable organizational development and learning.  Keke is also part of Future Search Network and practiced 50+ searched with corporations in the Asia Pacific region since 2004.

Keke gained her MNC & SME consulting/management experience in Australia, Asia, and Greater China. Including Digital Equipment Asia, ABB china, Xerox china, Accenture China, American Management Association China, Evans & Peck, and Kinnogene Inc.

Keke lectured at the Strathclyde University’s China EMBA program, was the panel expert of the Shanghai Labor Office’s Trainer Certification Center; She is also actively involved in the community; she presents in Junior Achiever China’s & AIESEC events, was the founding president for the Taiwanese Professional Women’s Society in Shanghai, the membership VP of Expatriate women’s society in Shanghai, Chair of the Shanghai Amcham Education & Training Committee, and the Executive Committee of Austcham Shanghai.

Keke holds directorship at early-education franchise, Happiness-OS social enterprise, and e-commerce fashion companies; and is the professional members of IAF, ASTD, AIM, and DMI.

As a certified master facilitator, certified coach, Keke holds a MBA from Chaminda Univeristy in Hawaii, and is working on a PhD. in Human & Organizational Development at the Fielding Graduate University in California.

We offer both in-house and public seminars on leading facilitation learning topics. In the coming months in 2011, we offer the following exciting growth & capacity building experiences. Please tick the box(es) next to the program(s) you are enrolling.