Friday Facilitator Forum
This online discussion forum is for new and veteran Profit/Target Team facilitators.
Facilitation and leadership skills need to continually be honed to be most effective. Finding new ways to motivate your team, to set and achieve goals or to apply management tools make you a more valuable asset to your teams and your clients. Sharing ideas about successes as well as struggles with other facilitators will help you learn how others are managing their teams and making progress with their dairy clients. This real-time, web-based format provides an efficient and effective method to gain new skills and network with other facilitators who work with dairy teams.
About the program:
<Click here for program flier>
These one-hour online topical discussions are specifically for dairy team facilitators. Each Friday Forum will have a short 20-30 minute presentation about a team related topic followed by interaction and discussion by participants. Each session will have a “discussion question” that participants should be prepared to answer for their teams. Participants must have a high-speed Internet connection, ability to hear the audio portion of the training, either through headset or speakers, and a Friends of Penn State computer account (can be established free of charge).
Fee: Free of charge. This online training requires that you register in advance by calling the Penn State Dairy Alliance office at 888-373-7232 no later than noon on the Thursday preceding the first session that you wish to attend. Upon calling, you will be provided information about setting up a Friends of Penn State account as well as the URL for the training site.
Forum Schedule:
Time: All sessions are 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. EDT
October 16, 2009
Topic: Effective Agenda Management
Discussion: How long do your team meetings typically last? How well is your agenda covered? Meeting Presentation: Effective agenda management (ppt); Click here for a recording of the meeting.
November 20, 2009
Topic: Reaching Team Goals
Discussion: How many goals do your teams typically achieve in a year? How well written are team goals? Meeting Presentation: Reaching Team Goals (pdf); Click here for a recording of the meeting.
December 18, 2009
Topic: Leadership vs. Facilitation
Discussion: Who leads your team? What is your greatest strength as a facilitator?
January 15, 2010
Topic: Managing Information for your Team
Discussion: What data is typically shared at team meetings?
February 19, 2010
Topic: Managing Information for your Team
Discussion: How have you ended a team? What scenarios might cause you to stop facilitating?
March 19, 2010
Topic: Managing Multiple Teams
Discussion: How many is too many? What efficiencies are gained by facilitating more than one team?
April 16, 2010
Topic: To Be Decided; Discussion: To Be Decided
Team resources and tools:
Monthly Monitor (Excel file)
Penn State Dairy Advisory Team website
For more information:
Contact Dr. Lisa Holden, program coordinator at 888-373-7212 or at lholden@psu.edu
