Certified International Professional Facilitator (CIPF)

Intermediate
3 days
Online

Attain professional certification and cultivate essential skills and knowledge crucial for achieving excellence in the domain of Certified International Professional Facilitator (CIPF). Elevate your expertise and leadership capabilities with the Certified International Professional Facilitator (CIPF) program.

Certified International Professional Facilitator (CIPF)

Intermediate

Online

3 days

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Master the fundamental principles of Certified International Professional Facilitator (CIPF) to gain a substantial advantage in your professional journey.

Facilitation comes from the word to “Facilitate”, which means to make possible or to make easy, to help progress. Thus, a facilitator is anyone who helps others to progress, learn and do their work easier or better. Facilitators are not “Teachers” or “Trainers”; they merely help to provide conditions where learning is made easier and more effective. Facilitators assume “experimental” learning in more effective and as such encourage “self-directed” learning and a group to responsibly achieve its goals.

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Learning Objectives

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

Ensure their roles are clear at the beginning of a session
Help group clarify their goals and expectations
Help individuals clarify their own roles, needs, priorities, goals and expectations
Maintain a natural and objective position
Help group stay on target and not digress
Give feedback on group’s leadership, working processes and communication styles (called Process Analysis and Feedback).
Protect and enhance group members self-esteem and protect individual from personal attack or defensiveness
Encourage open and frank – but constructive – communication between members (intra) and groups (extra)
Ask open questions.
Observe whether the group spends time deciding on process before launching into their task and feedback the observation
Summarize possible new learning and their on-the-job applicability
Observe interactions and report observations
Evaluate actions of group only, and do it cautiously and from a personal frame of reference
Build on ideas and observations brought up by the participants. Make comments or ask questions that cause the group to really explore the implications of various comments
Encourage the participants to take more responsibility for their own learning
Assess their own levels of competence in facilitating diverse types of groups
Develop a Personal Development Action Plan (PDAP)
Receive a Professional Certification and Fellow award from Cambridge Global Learning (UK/UE) and Oxbridge Professional Qualification Panel recognition

Key Takeaways

Facilitation Techniques

Communication Skills

Process Design

Empathy and Emotional Intelligence

Group Dynamics

Certification

Program Contents

Influence of Personality, Gender and Culture on Thinking and Behavior
The importance of Neuroscience in Facilitation
Cultural models of Facilitation
Asian versus Western models
Underlying Cultural Dimensions
Culture, diversity & corporate culture
Comparing the ‘GROW’ Model with other theories or models
Differentiating between “Facilitating, Consulting, Teaching, Lecturing, Training, Coaching, Counseling & Mentoring
How Facilitators are effective in communication and truly ‘deep’ and empathetic listeners
Questioning techniques are skills
Importance of clarifying goals, roles and expectations of the group/organization
Ensuring groups meet their objectives and outcomes
How to maintain objectivity and impartiality
The influence of ‘Unconscious Bias’
Helping navigate the group through their journey
Balancing Content and Processes
Ensuring individuals remain committed to the tasks
Protecting individual group members’ self esteem
The role of feedback and ways to provide it constructively
Importance of use of questions and observing behavioral interactions and who is enabling or inhibiting
Reporting back to groups on their interactional effects and drawing out the shared wisdom of the group
Skills in ‘Norming, Storming and forming’ group progress and use of clarifying and summarizing
Monitoring the energy of the group and pacing it
Helping groups ‘manage’ their problems or conflict and productive decision-making
Encouraging group members to take on more responsibility for their learning and constant awareness of their behavioral changes and organizational effectiveness
Personal Development Action Plan (PDAP)
Your CIPF award by Cambridge Global Learning
Evaluating progress and learning among individuals

Program Methodology

A key and unique feature of this programme is that all participants complete a series of self-assessment survey forms, resulting in a detailed profile of personality traits, motivational drivers and competencies.

This will enable participants to discover their own preferred cognitive and emotional styles, which in turn can strongly influence the dynamics of thinking and learning relating to this programme.

Practical Assignments

We provide hands-on assignments that requires practical implementation.

Interactive Exercises

Skilling-up for better jobs for everyone from fresh graduates to working professionals

Games

Skilling-up for better jobs for everyone from fresh graduates to working professionals

Live Case Studies

Sharing of experiences and insights through live case studies and interactive sessions

Peer Collaboration

Peer-to-peer learning encourages teamwork, communication skills, and diverse perspectives

Microlearning

Bite-sized modules that participants can consume on-the-go

Accreditations

This professional certification program is accredited by the Oxbridge Institute of Professional Development (OIPD)-UK, a global, non-profit, assessment and accreditation body.

OIPD awards qualifications, up to the equivalent of level 9 of the UK Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) and accredits professional certification programs that complies with its stringent quality and competencies benchmarking requirements.

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