Training

Facilitation methods for agile teamwork

2–4 pv Satu Heikinheimo, Vitali Gusatinsky

  • Design
  • Development
  • Organizational change
  • Tailored

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Satu Heikinheimo coaching Posti's design team.

Facilitation skills reduce project turnaround

Facilitation skills are essential for driving success in digital services and business development. With improved facilitation, processes are implemented faster and more efficiently, leading to increased employee engagement and productivity. Eliminate unnecessary meetings from your calendars by learning the rules of effective collaboration.

Tailored facilitation training for your company

At Fraktio we customise training programs for organizations of all sizes. These programs represent the best of our knowledge to create the change our partners aim to create. We map objectives and create a clear process to implement, as well as specific metrics to measure success.

If you want to learn how to facilitate meetings, workshops, and various processes and strengthen your team's cooperation, our tailored training offers your team tools, methods, and experiences. Our trainings are beneficial to all who facilitate meetings, workshops or processes, whether in-person or remotely.

Benefits of facilitation training

We have helped our customers to

  • Accelerate the turnaround of their projects 
  • Reduce the number of meetings held weekly
  • Reach goals effectively by applying co-creation methods
  • Discover common practices and methods of operation
  • Harness the power of visualization as a tool
  • Improve team well-being and project predictability

We were satisfied how Fraktio listened and asked from all the participant what they want. They genuinely wanted to tailor a training to match our business needs.

Mikko Rajala works as a development director at Terveystalo
Mikko Raja Development Director
Terveystalo
Satu and Vitali are coaching facilitation trainings

We begin by understanding your goals

  1. Together we define your goals and prioritize them
  2. We map out a plan to achieve the most important goals
  3. We set metrics to measure progress and agree on timelines
  4. Training starts with a kickoff where the program is introduced and expectations are set
  5. Participants take the basics of facilitation online course
  6. We hold the training days either remotely or live
  7. Between trainings, teams work on action points and share learnings
  8. Finally we facilitate a retrospective to review the impact of the training
  9. Your team will receive support and sparring throughout our collaboration
training process includes pre-planning, kick off, online course, training sessions, continued support and retro

Training contents

Your team will learn concrete and applicable skills that everyone working in a demanding expert position can utilize 

  • Methods for engaging people both in meetings and workshops
  • To plan a goal-oriented and effective meeting or workshop
  • To create a structure for the workshop that helps the participants to focus on the goals
  • To prepare and produce materials
  • Participatory methods that help you as a team to move forward faster
  • Which elements help to create a psychologically safe atmosphere
  • To communicate and document outputs
  • To ensure that the energy during the workshops and meetings remains good
  • How to act in challenging group situations
  • Concrete facilitation skills and virtual tools
  • To use ready-made workshop templates on virtual whiteboards and those offered by Fraktion for remote facilitation (for workshops and meetings)

Join our free remote facilitation online course

Join our FREE Remote Facilitation Basics online course!

This training will help you to get started with remote facilitation. Through the course, you will gain the courage to facilitate a wide range of meetings and workshops that you will encounter in everyday life. 


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Vitali Gusatinsky is a coach at Fraktio

Coach

Vitali Gusatinsky

Vitali is a wizard of user-oriented design. He has coached facilitation, design methods as well as UX/UI design for companies of different sizes, helping them succeed and adopt agile methods. He has designed user interfaces since he was young chap and has worked as the lead designer of mobile and web services in projects such as MTV Media, Maaseudu Tulevaisuus, Visma Solutions and Microsoft. Vitali has created online and mobile services for over 10 years and has worked with the world's biggest brands. Vitali has also coached in Finland's most prestigious design schools.

Design Lead

Satu Heikinheimo is a coach at Fraktio

Coach

Satu Heikinheimo

Satu is an expert in service design and an ambassador of design. She has worked in business development, marketing and coaching positions in various industries such as recruitment, as a manager of an entrepreneurship program, as a development manager in interior and architectural company, as well as in the IT sector. She has taught design thinking and service design to professionals in various fields, from HR managers to entrepreneurs in various fields, and has facilitated various project definition, initiation and ideation workshops. She has also taught design to digital design students. Satu has worked as a host and moderator for several years at various events and facilitated various discussions and group situations.

Strategic Designer and Coach

Satu and Vitali are coaches at Fraktio

Let's plan your next training!

If you want to hear more about the content of the training or if you are wondering if it is suitable for your team, send us a message.

We organize customised trainings at a time that suits you and tailor its content based on the goals agreed upon together.