The Business of Facilitation Teleclass

The Business of Facilitation 5-day Teleclass on the design, marketing, pricing, and relationships that comprise your facilitation business An excellent opportunity for those seeking to go into business as a facilitator or would simply like to enhance your knowledge and balance in your existing business.

The Business of Facilitation, 5-Day Teleclass
This dynamic teleclass, led by Steve Davis and Bev Lutz, is for anyone who's thinking about starting a personal service business or who is already in business but would like some fresh perspectives and support to move it to the next level. This class will focus on keys to designing your business and marketing strategies, building relationships, and pricing facilitation services and outcomes in service to a balanced life.

Benefits to you of participating in the 5-Day Training...
1. Refine how you talk about what you do so that it's easy, natural, and effective.
2. Anchor your marketing and pricing strategies in your life values/vision.
3. Explore pricing strategies and create a personal case study of value pricing in your practice.
4. Learn a simplified marketing process model and a prioritized approach to marketing strategies.
5. Create a personalized plan that takes advantage of the power of persistence and the laws of attraction.
6. Collaborate and learn from a community of your peers, all passionate about building their biz.


5-Day Business of Facilitation Training Agenda...
Here's what you'll be learning and doing during the 5-Day course...

Monday
Setting the context for your business

• Class Overview
• Anchoring your life in your work
• Revisiting your values, vision, and purpose as a Facilitator
• Clarifying our business goals
• Developing support systems
• Redefining Marketing
• Creating your message

Tuesday
Building and maintaining your business pipeline

• Marketing: forget plans, think daily action
• The eight biggest mistakes Facilitators make trying to sell themselves
• Three keys for successfully marketing Facilitation
• Where are the customers: getting the work flowing
• Who wants to talk to us: getting in the door
• Now we're on stage: delivering the service
• The party's over: following up and staying in touch
• Strategies to get unstuck

Wednesday
Exploring the pricing equation

• Pricing strategies
• Eight tips on pricing facilitation services
• Packaging possibilities
• Value pricing alternative
• Practicing the value conversation
• Value pricing application

Thursday
Having a life while making a living

• What makes for Life Balance?
• What are other facilitators doing?
• How much business is enough for you?
• What do you need to say yes to/no to?
• Commitments, action planning, support network, requests

Friday
Getting what you give: business karma 101

• How many “you’s” will it take?
• The power of connection and community
• Strategic Alliances
• Asking for what you most need
• Reviewing next steps

Also included with your training...
In addition to the 5-Day training described above, you also receive:

1. Free Learning Guide, ($20 value) offers you useful resources and exercises to get you moving during and after the class.
2. Free access to the RealAudio version of the 5-Day training ($69 value).
3. Free Articles and Resources ($25 value):

• Benchmarks of Facilitator Success. Article by Cheryl Kartes that speaks to expanded definitions of success and includes summarized results of a survey conducted with 116 facilitators looking at their practices in terms of variables such as income, rates, leisure time, work hours, satisfaction, work/life balance, etc.
• Business of Facilitation Survey. View the results of the survey mentioned above--116 facilitators answers to 15 questions about their business and lifestyle including 97 ideas they offered to improve their ratings.
• Strategic Marketing For Professionals . This collection of five articles provides an overview of marketing for services professionals. These articles offer ideas that help you design the strategy for your business. Use them to lay a foundation for your marketing effort, to provide an infusion of ideas and energy, or to get a few new hints that will provide a big payoff.
• Business Building Resource List. 25 books and websites for business building from an authentic perspective.

How the 5-Day Format/Training works...
1. You dial into your class every day for 5 days (Mon-Fri) for a 60-minute focused training segment using a conferencing bridge.
2. You work through a learning guide during the 5 days, which accompanies the class as a resource.
3. You will have the opportunity to dialogue with the instructors and your classmates via an online list serve during the course to tap the wisdom of the community.
4. During the week, you may access the instructors via email for help.

Pricing...
The full cost of training/access is only $89 including the free items (worth $104) listed above. Everything you read about above is included. And, we offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

Registration...
Immediately upon completion of your registration, you will receive an email with instructions to access the course and free bonuses above. This course is limited to 20 individuals, first come, first served.


Dates...
TBD

Please click here to register.

One-Day Live Version

Interested in a one-day "live" version of this class offered to your group? Email us to discuss options.

Follow up Coaching Available

Please contact us if you're interested in follow up one-on-one or group coaching to help you stay in action on your plan. Free sample sessions available.

Your instructors


Bev Lutz, MCC, MBA, CPCC is the cofounder of three businesses: The Legacy Center: preserving stories, values and meaning; The Lighthouse Group and Associates; and the new -- Two Heads are Better(tm) - helping bright people with just-in-time unsticking when their natural creativity is stuck. A Master Certified Coach, member of the International Association of Facilitators, the International Coach Federation, former steering committee member of the Minnesota Facilitators Network, and volunteer for the Peace Foundation, Bev also co-leads the Professional Development Team of the Minnesota Coaches Association. She's been privileged to co-facilitate sessions of The Business of Facilitation at four international conferences and several local showcases. And she's grateful for the wisdom and growth garnered from relationships with organizations such as Honeywell, the American Academy of Neurologists, Kroll/Ontrack, ACA International, numerous impassioned individuals, and four very wise cats.

Steve Davis, M.A., M.S., is an Facilitator's Coach, Infopreneur, and free-lance human, helping facilitators, organizational leaders, educators, trainers, coaches and consultants present themselves confidently, access their creativity, empower their under-performing groups, enhance their facilitation skills, and build their business online and offline.

Steve spends most of his time building and running FacilitatorU.com. He also publishes a weekly ezine for facilitators called, the Master Facilitator Journal, continues to write ebooks, design teleclasses, and maintain a part-time coaching practice. His breadth of experience spans business, corporate management, engineering, teaching, spiritual psychology, and wellness, offering a pragmatic yet creative coaching foundation. To learn more about Steve, visit his website at www.livingmastery.com.


About the satisfaction guarantee
If, for any reason, you are not satisfied with this package, simply email us with a request to refund/credit your credit card in the full amount and we will do so immediately. It's our policy to do this and we honor this in every single case. This policy completely removes the buying risk for you and keeps our customer-satisfaction rates extremely high.

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