Effective Group Leadership
Training

Effective Group Leadership

This workshop helps you develop leadership skills to facilitate more interactive and engaging group work in community and counselling settings.

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Overview

Who It's For

Our training is ideal for group leaders, managers and team leaders who want to equip themselves with proven techniques to help balance different views within groups, increase motivation, and adapt their leadership styles to suit every situation.

What You'll Learn

You’ll develop group facilitation and leadership skills, and learn to better understand different styles of communication, how to deal with different group dynamics, how to give feedback, and how to run creative group exercises.

Why Us

Backed by over 70 years of real-world clinical experience and results, we provide a confidential, safe and supportive environment that welcomes all cultural backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations.

This training is ideal if you work in one of the following roles:

Counsellor, psychologist running group sessions or workshops
Men’s behaviour change workshop facilitator
Educator
Community organisation or charity team leader or trainer
Drug and alcohol recovery support group facilitator
Youth group facilitator

Over the course of two days, you’ll learn how to:

01
Develop your own leadership style and presence
02
Improve your body language and presentation skills
03
Identify and practise skills that bring out your group members’ strengths
04
Use experiential learning and creative education activities
05
Identify ways to increase group member motivation
06
Respond effectively to group dynamics
Woman pointing out something on a white board to a man.

“I have a greater understanding and practical experience of facilitation and group work processes after this workshop.”

Effective Group Leadership Course Participant

Person talking to a group of people.

“Thank you for the recent session you ran with the Drug Education Network educator team. From conversations with the team, they all report having gained further tools and inspiration for their different presentation styles. It was clearly a worthwhile and valuable personal development session.”

Drug Education Network, Effective Group Leadership Course Participant

Young woman sticking up post-it notes.

“The training gave me many skills that I was missing for effective group work and the confidence to do the activities."

Effective Group Leadership Course Participant

Two women talking at work.

“The training allowed me to achieve some confidence in my existing practice, whilst also challenging me to stretch and grow into a better group leader.”

Effective Group Leadership Course Participant

Workshop Outcomes

 
Develop effective group leadership skills.
 

We’ll focus on your confidence, communication style and belief systems. These are all important contributing factors in your ability to successfully create vision, hope and a common purpose to unite your team.

Learn how to promote individual and group change.

Take a trauma-informed approach with strength-based groupwork.

Develop your group leadership presence.

Explore advanced facilitation skills.

Use multi-sensory tools and techniques and learn motivational groupwork models.

Use group dynamics to create a shared vision, common purpose and the energy to support change and achieve goals.

Facilitated by an industry-leading groupwork specialist.

Upcoming Workshop Dates

July

15 - 16 July 2024
9:30am - 4:30pm
  Parramatta Centre

How it works

Format

2-day workshop, delivered face-to-face.
9:30am-4:30pm both days.

Cost

$880 per person including GST

  • 10% discount when booking for 2 or more participants.
  • 20% discount when booking for 5 or more participants.

    • Experience

    Andrew King is a leading groupwork specialist in community services, counselling and health, and facilitates national and international training workshops.

    What You'll Get

    All participants will receive a Group Leadership Skills Report on their strengths and areas for development. You’ll also receive a copy of the book Continual Change Group work: Being an effective group leader.

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