Hello Facilitators👋 I'm really curious about where everyone is from. I'd love to make this a mega post where we can see how diverse the Facilitator Club community is. Who knows, you might find a lot more people in your area than you thought! Once I have lots of answers on this post, I want to make a nice graph!

Dear Community. How do you aqcuire new customers and with which argument to engage you as a facilitator? Which is your "sales" channel - Social Media, Personal contact - a mix of both of the two?

A few years ago I decided to learn more about Design sprints by reading the Sprint book by Jake Knapp and watching some of the videos created by AJ&Smart. While doing this I made some notes. Last week I was looking back at my notes and realised they actually make quite a nice guide for anyone who wants to learn more about Design sprints or even run one themselves. The notes consist of my written notes as well as links to all the videos (in order) that I watched. I decided to publish my notes here for anyone who is interested. Let me know in the comments if you found this useful or if you think there is enough there for you to run your own Design sprint with them. You can of course contact me directly too if you have any questions 😀 https://kiranchauhan.substack.com/p/i-accidentally-created-a-how-to-guide

Hello folks, I have not yet taken any of the AJ&Smart workshoos and plan to before the end of the year so that I can bring the skills to my organization. Loving the community building around it! I am a white woman, she/her, and work in the non-profit sector.

I need a favor... I was hoping you could give me some help or insight. So I joined this group as I'm looking at creating a course and becoming a facilitator. A little about me... I'm Kristen I work with business owners to build websites that Attracts, Inspires, Captivates and Converts! I'm also a Mother, Entrepreneur, and Hustler living an amazing life. I have been so fortunate to grow my business purely through the good-will of others recommending me but in the website game, there is only so many websites I can build per month. Has anyone gone from the agency space to the facilitator space? What was that like? If not, tell me about you and your business?

Hi all - my pleasure to join this group😀

Hello everyone! I am delighted to be introduced to AJ&Smart by the innovation coach at my summer internship company and join this community. I am a fresh graduate with a strong passion in design thinking and entrepreneurship. I am currently living in Zurich, Switzerland and will obtain my master's diploma in business management & interaction design next month. Beforehand, I have lived around the world since young age (China, USA, Germany). After my summer internship in Vienna, Austria, I am looking to start my full-time career and eventually become a Design Thinking coach. I would love to join the Workshopper Masters once I secure a job. I would appreciate any help and guidance for the crucial first step. I am mainly looking for entry-level opportunities in the following areas (but not limit to): - UX/CX research & design - Innovation management - Marketing - Startup roles (e.g. Founder's Associate) I am particularly drawn to opportunities the DACH region since I am business fluent in German, but also open to relocate a bit further. Feel free to check out my LinkedIn profile and share it to anyone looking for young talents. I look forward to connecting with you!

Hello all, for the first online meeting of the Zurich Facilitator Meetup Group, I am looking for a topic for a 10-minute impulse talk at the beginning of the session. In doing so, I thought of picking up on a facilitation trend. What facilitation trends are you watching right now? And maybe you are also interested in giving a 10-minute impulse talk about one of these topics ;) If so, feel free to let me know.

Hello everyone, after there was unfortunately only one inactive Facilitator Meetup group in Zurich, I just created a new one without further ado. The first meetup will take place online on 17.10.2023 at 08:30 (CET). The second meeting will be a face-to-face one, which will take place on 21.11.2013 in Zurich. Anyone who would like to participate is cordially invited. More information is available at meetup and the Zürich Facilitator Meetup Group. Looking forward to seeing you!

Hi Everyone! My name is Christina from Jacksonville Beach, FL ⛱️ I look forward to getting to know you all.

Hey everyone, I lead a design team in a startup in Berlin and I’m currently on maternity leave. I’ll not go back to my job once my leave ends and I’m seriously considering going full facilitation consultancy/freelance. Is there any lady here that has done something like that? I’d love to connect 😊

Hi all, I would love to hear from the freelancers here. Where did your first clients come from and/or where do they come from today? Do you seek them out online, do you cold-email them on Linkedin, do you get inbound requests from your website, something else? I'm interested in starting out but I'm not sure about the best step forward and what actually brings results to real facilitators.

Hello dear community! Since a few days I try to work out my positioning as a facilitator so that my target group understands it. My target group: Female founders and young entrepreneurs with a digital business idea for the recruiting industry. What I do: I help female founders with a digital business idea for the recruiting industry to develop useful and validated offers that their customers really understand, love to buy and find brilliant - fast and with a proven system. For LinkedIn: The Perfect Match: useful & validated offers for the recruiting industry that your customers really understand, love to buy & find brilliant. I appreciate feedback - right now I feel like I'm going around in circles😅

I am Nicole, from Costa Rica 🇨🇷 , and currently living in Munich, Germany! I am happy to join this community and connect with you. Career-wise, I have worked on the development of several medical devices, from breast implants to heart-lung machines. The MEDtech industry can be interesting but also narrow-minded. I am looking forward to being creative and learn more about workshopping! I am currently working in a big corporate, and I dislike traditional endless meetings, as you do 😂 I have already conducted a couple of LDJ workshops and have a bunch of questions. 🤔 Looking forward to learn from all of you!

Hey Facilitators, Firstly apologies for those of you that have seen this on the other AJS channels, but for those of you that haven't seen it, here you go... You may have also seen that Jonathan also did a react video on latest Unscheduled CEO podcast ----------- The Business Model Canvas is a great workshopping tool (when used well) to retrospectively analyse a business but also plan transformations. I recently used it to deconstruct AJ&Smarts business model and show how Jonathan and team transformed their business twice (into what we see now). I really hope you enjoy this video, it was made for people like you :) Hope you enjoy it - https://youtu.be/PiIBSDnJPew Thanks, Spence

Just joined the community and wanted to wave hello to you all. I live in Rotterdam in the Netherlands and just started out facilitating in my new job. I found out it is hard to just start doing it. So I came here to learn more about what makes a good facilitator. And how I can become better.