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IAF Core Competencies

If you are looking for training programs to help you become an affluent facilitator, you sure will know the intricacies of a facilitator’s role. As suggested by the International Association of Facilitators (IAF), the discipline of facilitation calls for some pretty intense and sound competencies. Addressing conflict, performance, strategy, and transformation requires continual development of facilitator competencies. 

What are these facilitator competencies? Let’s read more to understand what it takes to be an IAF Facilitator with professional facilitator competencies. 

Introduction to IAF Competencies 

IAF is the International Associated of Facilitators. It is the professional body that has a worldwide presence with an established goal to support, promote, and advance the art of professional facilitation.

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The IAF Core Facilitator Competencies include a framework of skills, abilities, knowledge, and behaviors that all facilitators must possess to be relevant in the growing economy. According to IAF, all facilitators must get a stronghold on the following skills and knowledge.

  • Creating collaborative relationships with client 
  • Plan group processes (appropriate)
  • Create a participatory environment 
  • Sustain the environment
  • Guide group and group of teams to useful outcomes
  • Build and maintain professional knowledge 
  • Model positive and professional attitude 

Who should attend? 

The training program for facilitators that focuses on teaching IAF Coaching Competencies with Coach2Reach is best suited for the following people.

  • Team Leaders looking for ways to upgrade their current capabilities
  • Executives searching for opportunities to enhance 
  • Entrepreneurs planning to have their coaching as a business initiative 
  • Managers looking for training to implement coach training at their organization 
  • Admin people willing to learn coaching competencies 
  • Experts
  • Specialists
  • Managers
  • Businesspeople with affluent experience
  • Professionals wanting to take their career up a notch in facilitation

What will you learn? 

Enrolling in the dextrous and real-time project-based Facilitation Competencies training program is designed especially for Team players to enable them relevant management skills and abilities. The training aims to guide participants towards identifying relevant facilitation competencies, i.e., the IAF core facilitation competencies and team development modalities, including: 

  • Team Building 
  • Exhibiting ethical team practices
  • Embracing the coaching mindset 
  • Developing agreements and maintaining them 
  • Team coaching
  • Discovering to develop trust and safety
  • Maintaining presence
  • Facilitating dialog
  • Gain innovative knowledge
  • Get up-to-date skills 
  • Gain focus
  • Become responsive to clients
  • Learn to listen actively
  • Communicating efficiently 
  • Helping client insights
  • Using appropriate tools and techniques

Trainers

Sivakumar Padmanaban

Enterprise Agile Coach/Trainer/Mentor with 20 + years of career reflecting experience in Scrum/Kanban/Scaled Agile/Project Management.

Zeeshan Ahmed

With over 20 years of experience, he played several roles as Agile Coach, Agile Transformation Leader, Tech Evangelist, Development Manager..

Why join Coach2Reach? 

There are many reasons that make Coach2Reach the best partner for training and facilitation. 

  • Coach2Reach is globally approved and recognized worldwide
  • Instructors focus on establishing mindfulness to executing management art and science
  • Sessions include the utilization of state-of-the-art techniques 
  • The instructors pay regard to consistent practice 
  • Concentrate more on expertise level proficiency 
  • Proper support post completion of credentials 
  • Flexible program structure for working professionals 
  • Associate Trainers and instructors are certified coaches 

Still wondering what competencies, skills, and knowledge must facilitators hold to be successful in facilitating a wide range of clients? 

Join the sessions! The aim of the sessions is for participants to connect, learn and grow as facilitators. Get acquainted with IAF Facilitation Competencies.