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Mastering Facilitation - LAWS9981
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Faculty: Faculty of Law
 
 
School:  Faculty of Law
 
 
Course Outline: See below
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 8
 
 
EFTSL: 0.16667 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 0
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This 4 day workshop is designed to provide lawyers and others who run group meetings with skills and tools to undertake the task more effectively.


LLM Specialisations

Corporate and Commercial Law; Corporate, Commercial and Taxation Law.

Recommended Prior Knowledge

This program is experiential – there are practical application sessions with feedback and coaching. Prior experience with group meetings is essential. This prior experience is preferably as a facilitator. However, extensive experience (3-5 years regular meeting experience) as an adviser, consultant or participant will suffice (eg: participation in mining company and native title negotiations, running welfare groups etc).

Course Objectives

  • Provide facilitators with additional tools to approach working with groups more effectively
  • Deeper understanding of how groups work
  • Understand how to respond to complex and challenging situations
  • Assist groups to make decisions and solve problems
  • Manage relationships with the group
  • Understand your skills and areas for improvement as a facilitator of the group
  • Tracking a facilitation using visual tools
  • How to give coaching and feedback for facilitator and group

Main Topics

  • The philosophy of facilitation
  • Groups and how they work
  • Planning a facilitation
  • Intervening as a facilitator
  • Changing hats (lawyer, expert, facilitator)
  • Group process options
  • Recording a facilitation
  • Dealing with difficult moments

Assessment

Attendance Attendance and punctuality at the whole 38 hours of class 15%
Class participation 35%
Assignment 3,000 words 50%
 

Course Texts

Prescribed
There are no prescribed texts, but a number of books have been published that would be useful for this course. Refer to Course Outline provided by lecturer.

Recommended
Refer to Course Outline provided by lecturer.

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