{"id":307,"date":"2013-01-31T09:17:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T13:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/capacity\/?p=307"},"modified":"2013-01-31T09:17:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T13:17:35","slug":"leading-groups-can-be-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/capacity\/2013\/01\/31\/leading-groups-can-be-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading Groups Can Be Easy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been in a group and then were asked to lead it \u2013 and product results?\u00a0 Have you ever wanted to learn how to lead successful groups? People get frustrated and discouraged when groups aren\u2019t effective.\u00a0 And more and more, people are asked to team up to get things done on the job, in their towns, for schools and in their communities.\u00a0 It makes a big difference when you know how to work with a group and lead meetings to get great results.\u00a0 But this isn\u2019t always easy.<\/p>\n<p>Strengthening Your Facilitation Skills (SYFS), Level 1, is a five-part Training Series designed to help local citizens learn how to get work done more effectively and efficiently in group meetings.\u00a0 The UVM Extension is offering the Training Series simultaneously in five locations beginning Tuesday March 12, 2013.\u00a0 Pre-registration by March 1<sup>st<\/sup> is necessary for the workshop curriculum to be designed to meet the needs of the group.\u00a0 Early bird registration deadline is February 15<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Each session will begin at 12:30pm and conclude no later than 4:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>SYFS will help you learn and practice facilitation skills in an experiential setting.\u00a0 You\u2019ll also get a chance to observe facilitation challenges and receive feedback in a safe environment. To maximize the group\u2019s learning experience, commitment to all sessions is highly encouraged.\u00a0 The cost to participate in SYFS is $100. (early bird registration is $75.00), which includes a resource notebook and a couple of resource texts.\u00a0 Workshop size is limited, so register early.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit our <a title=\"UVM Extension SYFS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/extension\/community\/buildingcapacity\/?Page=classes.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">website <\/span><\/a>for brochure and online registration.\u00a0 Checks are made payable to UVM Extension and should be mailed to Lisa McCrae at UVM Extension; 374 Emerson Falls Rd., Suite 1; St. Johnsbury, VT 05819.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/capacity\/files\/2013\/01\/Mtg-books1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-313\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/capacity\/files\/2013\/01\/Mtg-books1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/capacity\/files\/2013\/01\/Mtg-books1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/capacity\/files\/2013\/01\/Mtg-books1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-314\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/capacity\/files\/2013\/01\/SYSF2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/capacity\/files\/2013\/01\/SYSF2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/capacity\/files\/2013\/01\/SYSF2-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been in a group and then were asked to lead it \u2013 and product results?\u00a0 Have you ever wanted to learn how to lead successful groups? People get frustrated and discouraged when groups aren\u2019t effective.\u00a0 And more and more, people are asked to team up to get things done on the job, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/capacity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/capacity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/capacity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/capacity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/capacity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/capacity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/capacity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/capacity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/capacity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/capacity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}