Suggested preparation: Experience with meetings or collaborative work is useful.
About this course
Explore facilitation as a form of public-sector leadership. The sessions use concepts, hypothetical situations and practical microskills to examine how leaders support productive collective work.
Course at a glance
| Provider | MIT |
|---|---|
| Platform | YouTube · MIT OpenCourseWare |
| Access | Free Video |
| Level | Intermediate — WikiFree study-level assessment |
| Language | English |
| Available lessons | 4 |
| Video duration | 2h 23m · self-paced |
| Details checked | 10 October 2026 |
Preparation and study approach
Suggested preparation: Experience with meetings or collaborative work is useful.
Follow the available videos in sequence, pausing to summarize the main argument or reconstruct a worked example. Keep a short list of assumptions, unfamiliar terms and questions to revisit. Additional reading, problem solving and practice will take time beyond the listed video duration.
Using this video classroom
Select a lesson from the list, or search for a topic. Previous and Next move through the sequence. You can mark lessons complete; progress is stored in this browser without a WikiFree account.
Free access and course scope
The public MIT OpenCourseWare videos in this classroom are free to watch. This listing provides the available playlist recordings, which may include selected lectures, recitations, demonstrations or supporting discussions rather than every component of the original campus course. Textbooks, equipment, software licenses, supervised labs, graded assignments and instructor feedback are not supplied by WikiFree. No purchase is required to watch the videos or use the note-based study approach above.
WikiFree independently organizes these resources for self-paced study. Watching does not award an MIT certificate, academic credit or admission to MIT.
Video provider and credit: MIT OpenCourseWare on YouTube. WikiFree titles, descriptions and cover artwork are independently prepared.
Use this course in a learning path
- Free Meeting Facilitation Learning PathCourse resource in this path
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Compare course focus, level and study time
| Course | Level | Focus | Study time |
|---|---|---|---|
| This course — Free MIT Course: Facilitative Leadership in the Public Sector | Intermediate | MIT Course: Facilitative Leadership in the Public Sector | 2h 23m of video; practice time is additional |
| Managing Workplace Teams: Free Course | Intermediate | Team development · Team leadership · Collaboration | 6h 34m of video; practice time is additional |
| Presentation Skills for Managers: Free Course | Beginner | Presentation planning · Message structure · Visual communication | 2h 30m of video; practice time is additional |
| Workplace Negotiation: Free Course | Beginner | Negotiation preparation · Bargaining · Agreement building | 3h 53m of video; practice time is additional |
Provider: MIT. Videos play from the MIT OpenCourseWare channel on YouTube.
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