How To Be A Great Facilitator - The 8 Facilitation Skills You Need (With Tips To Improve Them)
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
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Anyone can become a great facilitator if they have the right facilitation skills, techniques and practices in place. In this video, we share the 8 skills every workshop facilitator needs to have to go from good to GREAT. We explain why these skills are so important for your facilitation career and we also share some tangible tips, techniques and exercises to improve your facilitator skills.
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⏰ Video timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:10 Who is a facilitator? And what makes a good one?
0:56 1️⃣ SKILL - Be the guide, not the hero (Facilitation Mindset)
1:40 2️⃣ SKILL - Time management
2:48 3️⃣ SKILL - Shortcut Circular Discussions
3:19 Tip 1 - The Parking Lot Method
4:06 Tip 2 - The Note & Vote Method
4:45 Tip 3 - Just start writing
5:08 4️⃣ SKILL - Keep energy levels high
5:42 Tip 1 - Go for a 10-minute walk
5:59 Tip 2 - High Fives
6:14 Tip 3 - Do energizer exercises
6:30 Exercise 1 - Touch blue
6:54 Exercise 2 - Fun fact
7:19 5️⃣ SKILL - Curbing Team Politics & Groupthink
7:54 Tip - Together, Alone
8:38 6️⃣ SKILL - Dealing with Troublemakers
9:13 Tip 1 - Give them tasks
9:52 Tip 2 - Ask probing questions
10:38 Tip 3 - The Parking Lot Method (again)
11:08 Tip 4 - Talk to the troublemaker in private
11:59 7️⃣ SKILL - Give clear instructions
12:46 Tip 1 - The “What-Why-How” framework
13:36 8️⃣ SKILL - Be ready to adapt
14:02 🅱️ BONUS SKILL - Remote Facilitation
14:33 What if you don’t tick all these boxes?
14:53 Next step #1 - Seek opportunities to facilitate
15:19 Next step #2 - Double down on your strengths
15:40 Next step #3 - Be proactive about your learning
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How To Be A Great Facilitator - The 8 Facilitation Skills You Need (With Tips To Improve Them)
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Hey! What's the thing you struggle with the most when it comes to facilitation? What else would you like to know about facilitation? Share your questions in the comments below 👇
📗If you want to learn even more about Workshop Facilitation grab our Free Facilitation Guidebook
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Hey there, link is broken?
@@nadiagrey6221 Hey Nadia! Which link are you trying to access?
I am a training manager, and the biggest thing that I see my Facilitators struggle with is validating their learners and providing answers instead of promoting self-discovery, do you have any content around this topic?
I am learning about facilitation.This video is so impressed me.
Nice video.Biggest callenge is giving enough time to set the table and not rushing that piece.
Really enjoyed this short but very informative workshop. What was most helpful were the concrete examples of how to implement the skills, especially dealing with troublemakers. Thank you!!
Loved the energy and valuable tips! Thanks for sharing these great facilitation skills! 🙌🔥
This video gave me a wealth of information and courage to start facilitating. Thank you!!!
I am a training Facilitator - I have this ever-fear that my candidates will not really understand, but yet stating that they do
This is very helpful. Thank you :)
a very insightful and practical video on facilitation. I've been looking for something like this. I'm definitely getting the book. thank you very much for the valuable content!
Thank you, this is really great
Thank you for the video and the guidebook. It's so helpful and interesting. All the best from Indonesia!
Excellent content!
Excellent presentation.
Excellent video.
Creating a cohesive flow within the complete course and implementing interconnective topic/objectives within the scope of a course
I've been soaking all this in! It seems to me, a top facilitator must master the Socratic Method
Wonderful ideas and presentation. marvellous.
Thank you! Glad you liked it
I would love to hear more on the circular discussions and trouble makers when the workshop is remote.
Hey Katherine! Great idea. This video should be a good start to dealing with troublemakers in your workshop ua-cam.com/video/DZiYUSau5LM/v-deo.html
A very insightful video 😃 learns many things and its applicable in our daily job life
Hey Ajaz Afsar! Nice to hear you learned many things from the video! Thank you.
Been looking for this kind of content for weeks. As a Creative Producer, I've been looking for ways to lead team building and problem solving sessions. Thank you so much!
That's great to hear Chris! That's what our channel is all about. Glad you liked the content. Cheers
This was great
Incredible! I have been conflating the terms instructor and facilitator so long that I really thought they were one in the same. This is a massive eye opening and just blows open the doors of creativity and imagination when meeting definitive objectives are based on group participation.
I’ll be saving and referencing this video as a standard. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
14:58 Actually, "Practice makes permanent." If you practice doing something incorrectly, you'll become "perfect" at doing it incorrectly. That said, the implication that one can get better at doing something by engaging in it is generally correct, as long as you are able to recognize (or have a peer point out) your missteps and learn from them.
Most often, missteps come from a lack of experience with a specific situation. Having experienced the situation, analyze it and critique yourself. Think about how else you could have handled it. Ask someone to review your self-critique (or, if they were present, ask for their own critique as well) and your ideas for the future. Internalize how you intend to handle the situation in the future. Then, you'll be better prepared the next time that situation arises. The more you do this, the fewer unexpected situations there will be, and the more "perfect" your facilitation will become.
Awesome information. Very useful. About trouble makers. They are not trouble makers - they are product testers, your idea testers, so they are on your side. The question is - how do you handle objections to your ideas? It requires flashing out your own logic. It is simply a challenge, a good thing. Awesome content. Good energy.
Hey there! We sometimes find some workshops participants not completely on-board with making changes and solving a problem. Many can even cause disruption and slow down the progress. Knowing how to deal with these challenges is a necessary skill for anyone working in the field.
Sometimes, and sometimes they're just trouble makers.
Might be difficult to identify when things need to go in the parking lot if you’re not an sme on the topic?
I have a hard time making my material reach the one-hour mark. I facilitate hybrid (in-person & virtual ) sessions and I can get through the material in thirty minutes. I don't get a lot of participation from the online participants as much and I feel like that is a part of it.
Hey Kelli! thanks for sharing. Just to be sure we're on the same page. You're having a hard time reaching the one-hour mark because the participants are not engaged and you have to cut short the session? Or is it because you have some exercises planned and you finish them before the assigned time for each exercise?
If it's the latter, but you're still getting to the desired outcome of the session, then it's not so bad because what's important are the results. However, it could also be that the exercises are not the right ones for the session. To learn new exercises we recommend the book "Gamestorming" by James Macanufo and Sunni Brown ( gamestorming.com/ ). It has a lot of exercises to choose from. You can also grab our free book "The Workshopper Playbook" (www.workshopperplaybook.com/book-choice). In this book, you'll find an easy framework to design sessions and workshops.
To your point regarding running hybrid sessions. We know it's not easy, especially because of what you pointed out. We normally treat hybrid sessions as if they were completely remote. All participants (even the ones in person) are collaborating on the same digital whiteboard, each of them on their laptops. And we also encourage the remote participants to speak before the in-person participants.
Hope this was helpful. Have a great day!
Great video and extremely great tips! And I bet that Anastasia was the most «voted» by all her peers to do this video, with all those votes on her shirt!
Just a joke, please, internet, don't linch me! :D
haha. That's a very "workshop-y" joke
@@AJSmart Thank you! Meant no disrespect! :D
Hi guys, just wondering
Why do you have an "outdated" site, with really old projects (if I'm not wrong the oak meditation app is no longer mantained)?
Is this for a strategic/design/i don't know reason?
Or do you haven't the time for restyle it? It would be very interesting to know why a lot of top designers and agencies don't give a **** about their websites.
Hey Limi!! That's a great question. The honest answer is that rebuilding the website has been on our to-do list for a very long time but it's never actually been a priority for us. We've been fortunate enough to be able to position ourselves as the authority when it comes to helping companies solve problems through Design Sprints and workshops in general. Most of our clients find us through our organic content and their own networks. Of course sales calls, ads and marketing are a big part of our client acquisition process and the website hasn't necessarily been a hurdle in that process. At the moment when it starts becoming a problem, we'll probably update it. Also NDAs 😉. Hope this answer was helpful. Have a great day!
@@AJSmart thank you for the answer 🚀
I need books on facilitation
Hey Eric, here's a video where we share our 7 favourite books on facilitation ➡️ ua-cam.com/video/U0cR_bHEw-c/v-deo.html
Hope this is helpful. Cheers
How could clapping often not make it into this list?!?!
hahaha clap every time you see someone falling asleep. You know a thing or two about clapping. Cheers Anastasia!! 👏
The noise in your background makes it hard to hear what you are saying.
Thanks for your feedback Suzy!
Feel lack of confident
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just cause she ask
Thank everyone for particpating