EPIC Group Facilitation

Why “EPIC” Facilitation?

EPIC stands for Empowering People, Inspiring Collaboration.

Groups do not naturally evolve into collaborative, functional teams. It requires leaders to be intentional about establishing an environment conducive to collaboration, buy-in, and inclusion.

Everything in group facilitation is designed to increase consensus and reduce dysfunction. Our EPIC courses are designed to maximize empowering people and inspiring collaboration.

Who We Are

Our team consists of former service members who used group facilitation and facilitation skills while in uniform. Our goal is to export these skills to as many people as possible!

If you are in the government and military, we understand how to translate facilitation into your language and how to apply the power of facilitation in your work environments.

If you are in the private sector, we teach facilitation enhanced by our decades of military experience in leadership, change management, and process!

Want to improve your meetings, working groups, and conferences?

Group facilitation skills improve your group settings; any time humans meet for a purpose, group facilitation skills are pertinent!

A Group Facilitator uses people skills and process skills to get the most out of every group. Facilitators create environments of authentic collaboration that enable consensus, group decision-making, buy-in and inclusion.

Need a Group Facilitator to come in and assist your organization?

JCTM has experienced Group Facilitators that can assist your organization with any problem. Our Facilitators are adept at wide range of agenda types to include Problem-Solving, Planning, Analysis or Design Agendas.

We will create a custom agenda to meet your organization’s specific needs and requirements.

Interested in gaining foundational Group Facilitation skills?

JCTM offers public/open courses for individual students to sign up and attend in both in-person and virtual formats.

We will also travel to your location and organization to teach on site!

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What is Group Facilitation?

The root word of facilitate is “facile” which means “to make easy.”

Facilitation has become a ubiquitous term that is used in many different contexts; all with the intended outcome of making people’s life easier.

What is group facilitation then? Group facilitation has a very specific purpose: to establish an environment of authentic collaboration so a group can achieve consensus, make decisions, and produce quality outputs. Groups facilitated effectively reduce dysfunctional behavior, achieve buy-in and inclusion, and maximize the use of time.

Group facilitation is people skills and process skills. Combined together, they arm a leader with the necessary toolkit to get the most of every meeting, working group, and conference.

Why do you need Group Facilitation Skills?

Leaders lead people. Every group environment and interaction is an opportunity to lead! Group facilitation skills assist a person in running effective meetings, reducing dysfunctional behavior, increasing productivity, and getting group buy-in and inclusion.

Group facilitation skills are pertinent no matter what type of job you hold. These facilitation skills are useful whether you are in charge of a meeting or just a face in the crowd! Applicable to both your personal and professional life, group facilitation skills are essential talents to manage people and process.

Why “EPIC” Facilitation?

EPIC stands for Empowering People, Inspiring Collaboration.

Groups do not naturally evolve into collaborative, functional teams. It requires leaders to be intentional about establishing an environment conducive to collaboration, buy-in, and inclusion.

Everything in facilitation is designed to increase consensus and reduce dysfunction. Our EPIC courses are designed to maximize empowering people and inspiring collaboration.

Two Versions of our EPIC Flagship Course

JCTM offers two different versions of our flagship course.

EPIC Group Facilitation is for any individual in business, academia, or other private sector organization that wants to improve their meetings, working groups, and conferences.

EPIC Group Facilitation for the Government and Military is for those serving in the US government or military. Facilitation is translated into government and military language, with examples, techniques and agenda models designed for government and military work environments.

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