Facilitating Effective Meetings and Groups

Virtual Workshop Description

Working together with colleagues, co-workers, community partners, and other stakeholders is essential to prevention work. This workshop will help participants develop skills and strategies to more effectively work in group settings, plan and lead productive meetings, and efficiently facilitate work groups, community groups, coalitions, and other types of collaborations. This training will present both virtual and in-person techniques and skills.

In this virtual workshop you will:

• Learn strategies to create collaborative relationships
• Develop plans to design meetings using best practices
• Identify behaviors that hinder and help a group process
• Strengthen participatory and interpersonal skills
• Learn options for managing group conflicts

Workshop Instructor

Virginia Cooperative Extension helps lead the engagement mission of Virginia Tech and Virginia State University, the commonwealth’s land-grant universities. For more than 100 years Extension has been building local relationships and collaborative partnerships to help people put scientific knowledge to work through learning experiences that improve economic, environmental, and social well-being.  Extension programs are delivered through a network of faculty at two universities, 108 county and city offices, 11 agricultural research and Extension centers, and six 4-H educational centers.  Extension is committed to providing access to unbiased, scientific information related to locally defined issues; a presence in local communities; the establishment of strong partnerships and collaborative coalitions; and innovative service to the Commonwealth.