Professional Facilitation Training
THE PROBLEM
As a leader in your organization, you’re expected to run meetings that produce clear and actionable results. Unfortunately, in a world of back-to-back meetings, you often lack…
A. The training and tools to design and run better meetings,
B. The time to find the right training and resources to design better meetings,
And as a result…
C. You begin to lack confidence in your own ability to lead productive meetings with little or no time to prepare.
THE SOLUTION
At MG RUSH, we understand there's nothing worse than a poorly designed meeting that leads to another meeting. That's why we’ve spent years building and improving curriculum and tools to help you design and lead better meetings.
Our CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL FACILITATION workshop provides servant leadership and structured facilitation skills, meeting design, and techniques for creating solutions that by the end of a meeting are owned by all stakeholders.
In short...
We train you to lead meetings that produce clear and actionable results, and you become a respected meeting leader in your organization!
Find out more about
452 Professional Facilitation Workshop
This course includes all our Facilitation Fundamentals curriculum.
Professional Facilitation Workshop
CSPF Certification- Public Class 5-Day Workshop Dates
December 07 - 11, 2026 in Austin, TX
- May 03 - 07, 2027 in Chicago, IL
- November 01 - 05, 2027 in Houston, TX
Professional Facilitation training runs five full days. Students are responsible for their hotel and transportation. Lunch is included.
- Students paying more than 30 days in advance qualify for our Early Bird discount. Available on registration form. Government, non-profit, or group discounts are also available on registration form.
PRO Course Certification
Students who successfully complete our rigorous Certified Structured Professional Facilitation training qualify as Certified Structured Professional Facilitators (CSPF™). They also qualify for the following…
CERTIFICATION CREDITS
- FAC CLPs – Participants upon successful completion qualify for 40 Continuous Learning Points (CLPs) based on Federal Acquisition Certification Continuous Professional Learning Requirements using Training and Education activities.
- SAVE CVS PDUs – Participants upon successful completion qualify for 40 Professional Development Units (PDUs) from SAVE International®, complying with VMBOK® Facilitator Definition, Function Analysis System Technique (FAST) and supporting the eight Core Competencies of Team Facilitation, Section 3.1 (SAVE International ® Core Competency Education Objectives and Testing Parameters for VMA and CVS).
- The curriculum also confers 3.2 (or 32 depending on the formula used) Continuing Educational Units (CEUs) for other professions.
PRO Curriculum Highlights
With a strong emphasis on HOW to think, rather than WHAT to think, you will receive everything provided in the Fundamentals course above, including:
- Building Agendas Using the Meeting Pathway and Workshop Canvas
- Duty (Fiduciary Responsibility) of Professional Meeting Participants
- Facilitating “Meaning”, not Words — knowing that meaning can be derived from . . .
- Narrative (verbal)
- Non-verbal (actions)
- Illustrations (drawings)
- Icons (symbols)
- Numbers, and
- Analogy, Metaphor, or Story
- Managing Conflict and Dysfunction
- Meeting Risk Assessment
- Meeting Roles
- Optimal and Sequenced Conversational Questions
- Optimal In-person and Online Seating Arrangements
- Reflecting Rationale (symptoms versus causes)
- Removing Distractions
- Rhetorical Precision (clear language)
- Shaking Paradigms and Groupthink
- Substance Over Style
- The Difference between Goals and Objectives
- The Difference between Mission and Vision
- The Expense of Meetings versus Workshops
- The WHY Before the WHAT
- Tool Selection Matrix
- Tools, tools, and more tools
- Unique Checklists and Templates
- Verbal Disfluencies
- Virtual Meeting Controls and Differences
- Voting Sucks
Plus two additional days covering applied faciltiation and Capstone practice sessions focus on participant needs such as:
- Applied Facilitation—Strategic or Other Planning Workshops Simulation
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- Why are we here? (using the Coat of Arms tool)
- Who are we? (using the Categorizing tool)
- Where are we going? (using the Temporal Shift tool)
- How do we measure our progress? (using the Scorecard tool)
- What is our current situation? (using our proprietary and quantitative TO-WS analysis to prioritize hundreds of options)
- What to we do to reach our objectives? (narrative conversion of TO-WS above)
- Is it the right stuff to do? (using the Alignment tool)
- Who does what? (using a Roles & Responsibilities tool)
- What are we going to tell others? (using Guardian of Change tool)
- Is everyone clear on assignments and next steps? (using the Review & Wrap tool)
- Applied Facilitation—Analysis Workshop Simulations
- - Why are we in this business area? (using Commander’s Intent tool)
- Who do we work with in support of our business? (ie, Enablers—various tools)
- What do we receive from them in support of our purpose? (ie, Inputs)
- What do we give them in support of our purpose? (ie, Outputs)
- Model and validation (using a Modeling tool)
- The scope defined (narrative conversion from Model above)
- Other Requirements gathering workshops and tools such as . . .
- Plan > Acquire > Operate > Control
- SIPOC and Use Cases (business process improvement)
- Logical Modeling
- Applied Facilitation—Other Robust Meeting Tools
- Ishikawa Diagramming (RCA)
- Real-Win-Worth Product assessment
- Risk Assessment (and FMEA)
- Organizational Design
- Peer Review (PRI)
- Scrum Framework
- Product Release
- Facilitation Of Scrum Events
- Sprint Planning
- Principles Of A Daily Scrum
- Product Backlog Refinement
- Sprint Review
- Sprint Retrospective
- Unique Agenda Designs
- Consent Agenda Alternative
- How To Facilitate Board Meetings (Or Committees)
- Staff Meetings
- Participant-led Capstone sessions (two recordings for each participant)
PRO Abstract and Agenda
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752 Concierge Professional Facilitation Training Workshop
This course includes our 5-day Professional Certification workshop, plus one preparatory and 4 personalized virtual mentoring and training sessions based on your needs, your situation, and your talents.
Concierge Professional Facilitation Workshop
CSPF Certification- Concierge Professional Facilitation Workshop
- In addition to your 5-day Professional Certification workshop, you’ll receive personalized mentoring and training based on you—your needs, your situation, and your talents.
- See 452 Professional Certification Training for certification credits and curriculum highlights.
- Public Class 5-Day Workshop Dates
*December 07 - 11, 2026 in Austin, TX
- *May 03 - 07, 2027 in Chicago, IL
- *November 01 - 05, 2027 in Houston, TX
- *Follow up preparatory and mentoring dates to be determined by Mentor and Student
- In-person Professional Facilitation training runs five full days. Students are responsible for their hotel and transportation. Lunch is included.
- Students paying more than 30 days in advance of our 5-day class qualify for our Early Bird discount. Available on registration form. Government, non-profit, or group discounts are also available on registration form.
Concierge Mentoring and Coaching
MENTORING AND COACHING
Session One:
First, we meet with you virtually to help direct your workshop training preparatory efforts. We’ll better understand what works and what needs to be stressed or de-emphasized. This way we can personally guide your time during pre-workshop activities.
Workshop Training:
Attend 5-day Professional Certification Workshop
Sessions Two – Five:
Then, over the next six months, we will engage in at least four virtual meetings. Each session, including our preparation and follow-up, averages one hour of our time, or more based on our mentoring performance with others. (We’re very generous with our time). You would determine the primary purpose of each session, but some reasons used by other clients have included (alpha-sort):
- Creating, editing, and improving simple and annotated agendas that coincide tightly with articulate meeting purpose, scope, and deliverables statements
- Developing small team activities for highly critical or visible workshops or large events
- Recommending action plans for conflict or dysfunction arising from individuals, groups, environment, and internal deficiencies
- Supporting research and development of Best Practices that might be used across an entire organization to support a Facilitation Department, Facilitation Center of Excellence, or Facilitation Community of Practice
Concierge On-site Visits
On-site Visits
The Concierge plan also allows for discounted on-site visits to witness, instruct, coach, and mentor. You would determine the purpose of any visit, but in addition to the Mentoring and Coaching areas above, other clients have included:
- Support with meeting design or meeting controls for your participants, executives, and external stakeholders
- Witnessing (as Observer or Documenter) the facilitation and participation of others to generate written observations about strengths, but most importantly, identifying opportunities for improvement
- Facilitating or participating in debriefings; aka After-Action Reviews, Hot Washes, Lookbacks, Retrospectives, Sprint Reviews, etc.
PRO Abstract and Agenda
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