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If your company, organization or group would like MNToP to offer a training at your site and costumized to your needs, we can arrange this. MNToP routinely works with companies to design In House trainings for staff.
The Hennepin County Library (HCL) system was searching for a way to really engage its 800 staff in a major redesign that had been announced to the whole system. They were able to leverage a team of in-house ToP facilitators, who had been trained as part of a Department of Research, Planning & Development RPD)initiative to bring participatory facilitation fully into Hennepin County in a cost-effective way. A ‘guide team’ which,
Together the guiding coalition (included Rebecca Gilgen from RPD, Kelli Koob from HCL, and the Lois Thompson, Director of the HCL system) designed four, three-hour sessions to be held across the county, to include 240 staff. The question to be addressed: "What do we need to do differently to support re-design and innovation at Hennepin County Libraries?"
Six ToP facilitators per meeting, with six sticky walls, and six consensus workshops! All seats were full, staff voices were fully heard, each thought was captured, with leadership present at each session. The finale is going to be incredible, combining more than 30 consensus workshops, as a launch pad to support the re-design. What a powerful way to bring about innovative change, cost-effectively.
Responses from the initial training sessions earlier this year with Hennepin County were exciting (see below). Now the change being facilitated for Hennepin County Libraries is one that will impact us all. This is where the real excitement is.
Please let us know if it's time to bring a large or small training initiative in-house for your team. We'd love to talk with you about your needs and how to make it work.
As a trainer and facilitator, I have been to many "workshops" and/or "trainings" on facilitation and this one by far was the best I have been to. It's great to see that Hennepin County is taking an interest in developing individuals into great facilitators. I look forward to using these skills to benefit our organization in the near future. - Hennepin County Staff Development Training Specialist
MNToP consulting services cover the following areas:
Implementing a Strategic Planning Process – Using ToP® design methodology to help clients create a participatory strategic planning process.
Collaborating Successfully – Using environmental and historical scans, and trend and gap analyses to establish baselines, determining performance improvement goals, and identifying and resolving issues and problems.
Assessing Organizations – Using environmental and historical scans, and trend and gap analyses to establish baselines, determining performance improvement goals, and identifying and resolving issues and problems.
Coaching Leaders – Coaching leaders in the use of participatory techniques to improve group effectiveness, manage conflict, and foster team and public involvement.
Customizing Training – Customizing courses to address individual client needs and applications relevant to the specific groups.
Planning and Designing for Stakeholder and Community Involvement – Designing and implementing collaborative processes that use participatory tools to involve the stakeholders in providing meaningful input to strategic initiatives and decisions.
Facilitating design conferences – With core teams of an initiative, developing a clear focus for participative planning.
Supporting Participatory Project Assessment and Documentation – Involving stakeholders in documenting project journey of implementation, identifying accomplishments and results, and articulating lessons learned and next steps.
Who thinks that youth are too young to facilitate?
Not MNToP!
Youth as Facilitative Leaders (YFL)
Be a positive change agent in your community!
Youth as Facilitative Leaders (YFL) offers 1 to 3 day training sessions in group facilitation methods.
Core components include:
*In depth training for youth/adult teams in ToP methods.
*The opportunity for participants to become ToP certified youth trainers.
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One Day Courses 
