October ASTD Las Vegas Monthly Meeting October 10, 2008

What Every Great Trainer Needs To Know About Facilitation

Do you know the difference between training and facilitation skills? Think you know the differences but aren’t sure? Join expert facilitators Ruth Urban and Carla Sanda and discover what might surprise you. This 90-minute experiential workshop will provide you with a better understanding of how facilitation differs from training and learn some techniques that you can immediately apply to make meetings more productive and make you a better leader.

Ruth and Carla, both Certified Professional Facilitators, are the first in Nevada to achieve this certification from the International Association of Facilitators. Both bring years of facilitation experience in vastly different venues to this dynamic hands-on training.

Carla Sanda, CPF, is the managing owner of Consensus By Design, LLC. Her company draws upon Ms. Sanda’s more than twenty years’ of experience in working with governmental agencies to clarify issues, focus on the desired objectives, identify key stakeholders to the process, design a results-oriented public involvement approach, develop and produce understandable informational materials, and design and facilitate meetings that are beneficial to both the sponsor and attendee. Carla is also an active member of the International Association for Public Participation.

Since starting The Urban Group LLC, Ruth has focused her consulting practice on facilitation, organizational development, and training. She has facilitated groups and teams in a variety of settings—from birth to death and soup to nuts and everything in between—including issues involving endangered species to sensitive human service issues. Ruth is a member of a number of professional organizations including ASTD, the International Association of Facilitators (IAF), Society for Human Resource Professionals (SHRM) and the OD Network.

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