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7 Game-Changing Resources Every Facilitator NEEDS To Know!!
Hey Facilitators!👋 I don't know if you remember, but awhile ago I asked you all about your favourite resources for facilitators and I got sooooo many amazing answers back! Thank you for your contributions 💛 Since then, we put together a video of our 7 favourites! These resources are packed with facilitation techniques, tips, tricks, workshop exercises, ice-breakers, and warm-up activities. In this video, I not only cover books but I also discuss tools that will help you run better and smoother remote workshops.Some of these resources are free, and some are paid. By the way, we DON’T get paid to promote any of these products. They’re just great, and we really like them. So if you’re looking to level up your facilitation game, then check out this video immediately 👉 https://youtu.be/bvGOFUeX9NY I go DEEP into these resources to show you what’s great about them and how to use them. So, give a big shout out to all of the authors and creators of these amazing resources! THANK YOU! Here they are in order of appearance: 1. Gamestorming by James Macanufo and Sunni Brown / Sun Kagami 2. Workshop Tactics Pip Decks by 🎴 Charles Burdett 3. Miro 4. The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures by Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless 5. SessionLab 6. FunRetrospectives by 🎯Paulo Caroli 7. Facilitator Club Free Community by AJ&Smart Have you tried any of the above resources before? Which one is your favourite?
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New comment Aug '23
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@Salah Bouchma nope, done it in a team of 12 in 30 minutes as part of a sprint retro.
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@Salah Bouchma can’t change it, sorry.
How do you store your activities and ideas?
Hey Legends! When I'm designing a workshop or program I've got a huge amount of activities that fall under different topics that I could pull into a workshop and use. Probably like most people here. Right now I just keep them haphazardly in google docs, as part of course outlines etc. I thought of a new activity this morning that doesn't have a natural place and that got me thinking "surely there's a better way to manage this". So my question is - does anyone use miro, trello or something else to store/manage discreet activities that may be used across topics? Happy to provide an example if this doesn't make sense.
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New comment Jun '23
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Hey Vicki, I used to store "templates" in PowerPoint now Miro. But I think the tool itself is irrelevant. I used to have it organized by topic. So for example: Briefing or Business Case. Now I re-organized according to the 4 C framework. This way I can pick and chose what excresie I want and still keep the basic structer of a workshop intact.
Workshop to generate ideas 💡
Hello everyone, I'm excited to join this group as a newcomer, both in terms of being part of this community and working in facilitation. I have an upcoming brainstorming session with my colleagues to determine our marketing content and generate fresh ideas and I wanted to turn it into a small and quick workshop. I was wondering if any of you have had success with a particular format/workshop that you could recommend for me to use with my team? It would be greatly appreciated if you could point me in the right direction. Thank you in advance for your help! Geo
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New comment May '23
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How about the LDJ which takes around 1 hour. I have had good sessions usiing it with Crazy-8s instead of 10-4-10 too
Prioritisation Workshops
Does anyone have any other cool ideas for prioritising pieces of work OTHER than the 2x2 matrix style?
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New comment May '23
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Not exactly a prioritizing exercise but still something that will facilitate the discussion around this could be a roadmap as in 4h-4d-4w-4m. The more pressing the issue the faster it will need doing. If the issue is too big and lands in the 4w column, simply because it takes that long, then this might be an indicator that it should be broken down further into more manageable chunks/actual tasks. If something can be done in 4h, then why wasn’t it done already - can’t be that pressing then.
Collect Phase - Brainstorming - Alternative to Sailboat?
Hi, I am hosting a brainstorm and would like to use something like the Sail Boat Exercise. However, I gauge from the what I discussed with the participants that this might not be an effective "Collect" tool for this group. We don't really have big issues to solve, rather need to think up a new way of selling "business value" workshops, aka Design Sprints or the like, on what else is a very technical track for clients. Any ideas what I could use in this Brainstorm to run the Collect phase?
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New comment May '23
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Thanks 10-4-10 is great idea.
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Thanks to everyone on here I manged to facilitate a workshop using the following: 1. State the challange -> Agree in a discussion, it was fairly well pre-defined but the discussion shed some new light and helped make it more concise. 2. Sailboat: What are we doing well with this, what holds us back in acomplishing the challange? Organisational and offering blockers were identfied 3. Clustering->Dot Voting->Ranking 4. Re-state the top issues as HMWs 5. De-duplicate and vote 6. Rank HMWs 7. 10 for 10 on how to fill those HMWs with life. 8. Toss out ->Vote->Rank Moving on I palnned for two scenarios. Well defined HMWs & Ideas that could be extended with Actions and the stuck to a roadmap or do an LDJ. As the group was very chatty and wanted to discuss a lot I decided on abridged LDJ/Action Board as we already had a challange and HMWs. We were just missing some actions & metrics on those. We ended up with 4 idea-clusters and ranked in Impact/Effort map. Spent the last 10 minutes on assigning tasks to the most pressing issues with a timeline. Participants happy, I learned a lot about ranking issus and tossing the ones taht do not pay into sloving the challange (missed that one ;-)) and how to guide a very talkative group. So thanks everyone for helping out
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David Hefendehl
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Started in 1996 in an agency when the internet just got legs, now a seasoned digital consultant. Love Enduro MTB and Baking Bread as a hobby

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