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Learning to Lead Collaboratively

(This workshop is a pre-requisite for the Strategic Planning and the Advanced Facilitation Workshops.)

A workshop to increase the potential for collaborative problem solving by exposing participants to powerful facilitation tools:
  • The importance of developing a focus for your meeting
  • How to choose the process(es) to achieve success on your meeting's content
  • Exposure to powerful problem solving tools and practice in using them
  • The key roles which can be played by a group facilitator and recorder
  • Acknowledging and meeting differing expectations of participants
  • How to build a good agenda
  • The importance of learning how to listen as an ally
  • Learning how to arrange your meeting room for maximum productivity
  • The importance of getting feedback
  • A discussion on collaborative leadership–the significant step beyond facilitation


Workshop Presenter: Dr. Donna R. Ching

Donna has been an Extension Specialist in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Hawaii-Manoa since 1987. During that time, she has enjoyed working with a variety of non-profit, for-profit, and community organizations providing workshops in the area of group process, leadership, facilitation and strategic planning. She has also facilitated many of these organizations in strategic planning and problem solving.

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Last updated on 8/1/2003