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Help me out people! I need to update my music playlists. Specifically some good upbeat, high energy instrumentals for the start of a workshop, or for bringing people back in after a break. And at the other end of the spectrum--I'd love some ideas for reflective instrumentals that aren't nature sounds. (No disrespect to the whales 😉) What's your go-to playlist?

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Akshay Chillal
Will Stammers
Silvija Siksniute
Mehdi En-naizi
Renko P.
New comment 1d ago
  • 1 like • Jan 23

    You’re free to use mine. Here’s for deep work and focus https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5VojVe4Dq3IKlzG5z5p1bE?si=wCQ1Yky1SFuObd9JIv5uJA

  • 3 likes • Jan 23

    For upbeat and bringing people back to energy https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5buQ0AGj3swkT8WwtcxUKB?si=0VrV8BOQQXqzwEnUf6fauw

Hi everyone, Are you scaling your facilitation business beyond yourself? And if yes, how? I understand AJ&Smart has both online courses and services within the company, online courses being the most scalable while keeping the services side fairly lean. What other models have you found? (e.g. pair up with other freelancers to offer more comprehensive services; Refer work to others if you cannot deliver on it yourself taking a fee; etc.) Please share your experiences! Thanks!

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Aleksandar Dimitrov
Göran Hielscher
Shannon Wagers
New comment 10d ago

I have previously shared how to use chatGPT to prepare for a workshop (link in comments). Now, I want to share how one might use it **during a workshop**. Just open the pictures and scroll through them :)) Some conclusions: ✅ ChatGPT as a co-facilitator you can resort to throughout the workshop. ✅ Prepare the robot beforehand and give it context, so it can help you during breaks ✅ Keep the chatGTP window open and have a two-way conversation, sharing back your own learnings along the way ✅ I cannot wait to see the amazing abilities AI will continue to bring facilitators How about you? What experiments have you been doing with AI and facilitation?

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Joao Ribeiro
Rebecca Courtney
Jack Johnson
Damien Gauthier
Jan Keck
New comment 18d ago
  • 1 like • Feb 27

    @Mladen Tomov you are most welcome! I’m using it a lot too! it’s super useful as long as we keep critical thinking levels high!

  • 0 likes • 22d

    @Jan Keck transcript of user interviews yes. real time input from a call while it is actually happening I have not! :) How about u?

My absolute favourite icebreaker is called draw a duck, it’s as simple as it sounds. 🦆 1️⃣ Give everyone post-its and a sharpie 2️⃣ Give them 60 seconds to draw a duck 3️⃣ Have them all put their ducks on the whiteboard 4️⃣ Briefly review your ducks as a group. That’s it. I love it because it’s a quick and effective way to inject a bit of fun into the start of the workshop. Plus, it lowers the bar for visualising ideas later, showing that ability to draw doesn’t matter. Want to practice? Grab a post-it and drop a picture of your duck in the comments, then tag someone in Faciltiator club do the same! 🦆 I'll start us off in the comments! 👇

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David Finnegan
Anita Jacob-Puchalska
Alexandra Pinegger
Jack Johnson
Rebecca Courtney
New comment 20d ago

Helloooo Facilitators 👋 This is a question that comes up A LOT and I would love to hear your answers to it. What's the value of Facilitation? In other words, why do teams need Facilitation/Facilitators? It's so important to be able to answer this question because it will help you convince potential clients of the value you can add to their teams as a Facilitator. Leave your answers in the comments. Looking forward to getting a discussion going on this. Rebecca 💟

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Jakub Michalski
Rebecca Courtney
David Newman
Shannon Wagers
Gordana Rauski
New comment Apr 15
  • 1 like • Feb 2

    @David Newman perhaps it’s not one or the other but both! There was diagram someone shared that was quite interesting showing the space of each activity! Let me see if I can find it!

  • 1 like • Feb 2

    @David Newman can’t find it in the group but was similar to this!

Hey Facilitators! I want to take a moment to express our gratitude for your dedication, collaboration, and enthusiasm in the Facilitator Club community. Your consistent engagement, insightful advice, and willingness to share your knowledge have been instrumental in nurturing the growth of the Facilitator Club. We are SUPPPPPPPER grateful for the amazing energy you bring to this community and can't thank you enough for your contributions. Huge shout-out to everyone on the leaderboard! 🥳 @Shannon Wagers @David Finnegan @David Newman @Jan Keck @Benedict Odjobo @LaYinka Sanni @Kerri Price @Msoo Mee @Brendon Cappelletti @Austin Govella @Tomoo Okubo @Shaul Nemtzov @Joao Ribeiro @Donna Benjamin @Will Stammers @Jeff Panning @Hassanein Ismail @Sam Pettersson

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Donna Benjamin
Benedict Odjobo
Rebecca Courtney
David Newman
Hassanein Ismail
New comment Apr 14

I'm curious to know what kind of facilitation everyone does...? While I recognise that Facilitation Skills/ Principles apply across all types of facilitation, I've seen a lot of posts/comments around Design Thinking, Design Sprints, UX... Apart from supporting facilitators to hone their craft, I do a lot of facilitation in the Community Engagement / Social Impact space. Strategic Planning, Community Consultation, Partnership Brokering... that kind of thing. I'm keen to see the breadth of facilitation that's in this community.

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Joao Ribeiro
Vicki Norman
Vona Oyibo
Tulio Fiuza
Frederik Martens
New comment Apr 4
  • 9 likes • Jan 26

    @Kerri Price I enjoy both actually! 😀 Being outside is fun because you get more variation of domains to work with potentially! Being inside you get to see the results of your work over time! The reason I moved inside was to try an crack the code for impactful, long lasting results from facilitation. When I was outside we had a lot of what I call “aleluia moments”! People would come from a corporate to a series of worskshops and leave with all kinds of plans and ideias that would fade out once they were “back” in the organization routine! I moved inside and it’s very different from being outside: - you’re much more accountable! You work at the company and you will be there once facilitation is done and know if it turned into something (and I mean beyond prototypes) - You can’t rely on the novelty factor! Consultants sell the same thing over and over again to different companies (e.g. design sprints training). When you’re inside you have a grace period where you are new and exciting but it wears out! So you need to also be able to achieve tangible results. - You need to deeply understand the company strategy! Inside it’s not enough to focus only on the workshop! You need to really understand company strategy to be able to connect to that and not end up being perceived as an “animator” or “team builder”! This is tightly connect to the previous point! Again, I really enjoy both experiences but they are very different! The great thing is one feeds the other so when I do workshops as consultant now, after being inside, I can understand much better the concerns of workshops participants coming from corporates! You’re giving me food for thought to write more about this 😀 thanks!

  • 1 like • Jan 26

    @Kerri Price exactly! Still figuring it out but I’m closer today than I was before 😀

To all the folks working in Corporate Innovation domain, just wanted to check from this elite group of facilitators - What kind of facilitation you have been doing majorly? It could be multiple items as well, but wanted to understand what's that 1 thing which you are passionate about and you do your best while facilitating 😊 Looking forward to see your responses !

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Sooz Young
Anthony Spano
Austin Govella
Julie Quin
David Newman
New comment Apr 4
  • 5 likes • Mar 7

    Custom designed workshops that take from different base methodologies to respond to each challenge!

  • 1 like • Mar 9

    @Johnny Jon Jon exactly!

I'm curious what y'all use to bring silence back to a room (e.g. after a breakout discussion)? With the first program I was trained to facilitate (Search Inside Yourself) we used a singing bowl like the pic attached. Works like a charm, but definitely has a mindfulness vibe and isn't perfect for every setting. Are there are tools, techniques, etc. that you've found work well?

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Jonathan Courtney
Rebecca Courtney
Joao Ribeiro
Jan Keck
Daniel Ferdinandusz
New comment Mar 30
  • 1 like • Feb 10

    @David Finnegan ahah cool!

  • 0 likes • Mar 29

    @Jan Keck “a variety of noise makers” maybe I should bring my kids 🤣

Hello Facilitator Club! I'm looking to connect with HR, POPS or executive professionals who lead their organization's wellness initiatives. I have almost a decade of marketing experience in fast-paced and high-stress environments working with leaders and team members at all levels. Now, I'm an executive meditation guide and intuition coach working with leaders all over the world to be more in tune with their strengths, manage their stress, and access deeper levels of wisdom and creativity. I'm interested in bringing meditation and stress management tools to organizations emphasizing initiatives around team effectiveness, retention, and emotional intelligence. If you'd be open to chatting about what challenges you're facing in this era of work, I'd love to meet you. If this sounds like you, or you know someone who fits this profile, please tag them or message me directly. ☺️

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Salah Bouchma
Joao Ribeiro
Julia Lemke
New comment Mar 29
  • 1 like • Mar 11

    I am interested in this topic too! Especially in embedding these concerns in daily practices of work! Check this video for what tends to happen when these are separated 😅 https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYa74ut2/

  • 0 likes • Mar 29

    @Julia Lemke you’re making great point regarding physical space! Interesting to think on this also from a remote work perspective as in those cases it’s more on the employee side

Recently I've been reflecting on how much time we spend setting the scene for a workshop. Most facilitators are very intentional about making sure everyone is on the same page about why they are there, and we work hard to ensure people feel safe and comfortable to engage. However, when it comes to the end of the workshop, it often wraps up in a hurry. There might be an action list created, perhaps a quick whip-around to see how people are feeling, but I'm not convinced that the wrap-up is always given the time (and energy) it really needs to be done well. (And for the record...I'm reflecting on my own practice here...maybe I should replace 'we' with 'me'.) I'm keen to hear how others wrap-up their sessions. Are there specific exercises you use to bring things to a close and encourage next steps are actually taken? I've got a few tried and true methods I use, but I'm keen to give it more focus.

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Hassanein Ismail
Kerri Price
Shannon Wagers
David Newman
Gordana Rauski
New comment Mar 28
  • 12 likes • Feb 5

    I often change the room setup to wrap up! Most often we have group tables and when I close, I ask everyone to gather around in a circle, facing each other, the whole group. Then do a reflection exercise before closing! However if I am doing a series of workshops I tend to do this mostly in the last one, having quicker wrap up’s followed by recaps in all the workshops except the last!

  • 1 like • Feb 9

    @Scott Fry oh yeah! When I say “I” change the room setup it’s very often we! So I say something like this “all right everyone so we’re getting close to the end of the day, so let’s change things a bit! Everyone take a chair and let’s gather around in a circle!” Then I start and everyone follows!

Hey guys, "may the force be with you 🖖" As AI is embedded or in progress in all areas today, can you suggest if there are any AI tools that can be leveraged for effective workshop facilitation? Not looking for an AI takeover 😀 but more like an assistant. I know there are a few tools in the market for quick prototyping like https://uizard.io/design-assistant/. Adobe is doing major updates with Firefly etc. Thoughts?

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Shannon Wagers
Jakub Michalski
Joao Ribeiro
Sooz Young
New comment Mar 27
  • 1 like • Mar 27

    @Jakub Michalski thanks for the mention :)

  • 1 like • Mar 27

    @Anil Chauhan have you checked Miro AI? https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/10180187913746-Introducing-Miro-AI You can also use chatGPT for planning and as co-pilot running workshops. check the post that @Jakub Michalski has shared :)

Hi Everyone! So much experience and expertise in this community ... thrilled to be a member. I have a four-hour (same day) virtual session coming up and after the hour lunch break, I begin with energizer that gets the participants out of their seats and have a laugh. I have done ... find objects, eye yoga and the “after lunch shuffle”. Please what are your ideas? Thank you for sharing! Take care.

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Kerri Price
Nancy Lhoest-Squicciarini
Will Stammers
Rebecca Courtney
Renko P.
New comment Mar 21
  • 2 likes • Jan 25

    Count up is great and very easy over zoom!Here’s how it goes: “as a team we’re going to count up! I’ll start and say ‘one’, then another person goes ‘two’ and so on and so forth! There is one rule: if two people speak at the same time we go back to zero! The goal is to see how high we can get as a team!” 😀ready?” If I need to encourage cameras on, I also like to do a variation of this where it’s the same prompt but you ask whoever speaks to also show their fingers with the number! When you go over 10 you just keep using the last number so 12 would be two fingers in the air!☺️

Hi guys, hoping to draw on some of your experience. I'm new to facilitation and learning the design sprint. I'm doing well at talking about the design sprint and there seems to be some buy-in. However, our organization is highly technical (some seriously big brains) and we have an internal set up called "Digital Factory" which they are using for acceleration of transformation. Admittedly, focused on the digital aspect. They are using agile sprints. My question: What is the real difference between a design sprint and an agile sprint? And how can I highlight to my colleagues that it could be worth doing design sprints up front in the innovation process? I do understand that agile is more of a downstream process. So, I guess, does anyone have experience with what teams start from in an agile setting? Use cases for example... Looking forward to your comments / thoughts. Thanks

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Teddy Wilhelm Dillier
Kat Mather
Joao Ribeiro
Shannon Wagers
New comment Mar 17
  • 4 likes • Feb 6

    Hi Kat, I find that he best way to frame the answer is first to revisit on how the two came to be. Agile sprints: Created in the 90s in the context of software development, and as opposition to waterfall software development under the agile movement in order to avoid the risk of over-planning and then building the wrong thing. In essence, it broke the waterfall method into shorter time-boxed periods (sprints) with reflection, planning and adaptation activities in-between. Includes all activities needed to deliver software products: design, coding, deployment, etc. the whole thing! At the end of each of these sprints a product increment comes out! Design Sprints: Created in the early 2000s with the book released in 2016, in the context of product design as opposition to endless discussions about what design would work or not for users/customers. It focuses on design exclusively! At the end of each of these you get a "throw away" prototype, and more importantly, some data from exposing that prototype to 5 users to assess if your design is in the right direction or not! Here' a few ways to combine the two: 1 - If starting a new project, consider using design sprints before kicking off agile sprints. This gives you a feeling for desirability of the design of what you intend to build and the results from prototyping an user testing can serve as input into the agile sprinting process (or even cause you not to start building anything further as the design sprint show no promise) 2 - For existing projects where you already have ongoing agile sprints (most cases in my experience), consider adopting something like dual track scrum with the agile team, and use design sprints as part of the discovery track. https://blog.logrocket.com/product-management/dual-track-agile-continuous-discovery/#:~:text=The%20heart%20of%20dual%2Dtrack,product%2C%20engineering%2C%20and%20design.

  • 1 like • Feb 6

    @Kat Mather you’re most welcome! yes option 2 is more embedded as a way of working! They probably have some sort of discovery process already within the agile sprints, even if it’s not super explicit! This is their chance to structure it a bit more and optimize the discovery/delivery dynamics with your help 😀 Design sprints can (and should) be part of a bigger picture and joint effort to deliver the most valuable products!

Let's accept it - workshops not always go as planned, and we are always dealing with 'oh-no' situations (at least me!) So I thought to share and also learn from everyone's failures but with the mindset of 'failing forward' - every mistake can turn into a stepping stone for success in the future. I'll start with one learning from this week, and I'd love to hear your lessons learnt too! [plan] In an online workshop where participants from various countries were expected, I did an ice-breaking exercise where I shared a screen of a white world map and asked colleagues to put a stamp on where they are at the moment. [what happened] it took forever for some participants to find out how to stamp and annotate on zoom, while some got it immediately. So it wasn't smooth. Lots of scribbles on the white board too. And, actually majority of them were from the same countries so the activity didn't really serve the purpose of showing the diversity of participants. It fell flat and made it a not-so-cool start of the workshop. [lessons] - keep the technology super simple, especially if you aren't sure of the level of familiarity - have some back-up questions/activities, in case one question didn't spark interest,

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Rebecca Courtney
Salah Bouchma
Eva-Maria Maywald
Shannon Wagers
Tomoo Okubo
New comment Mar 15
  • 1 like • Mar 2

    More stories on this topic also on this post 😀https://www.skool.com/facilitatorclub/facilitation-fails-lets-share?p=c6ec8816

  • 1 like • Mar 2

    @Tomoo Okubo you're most welcome :)

  • 1 like • Jan 31

    @Kerri Price ahah 😀 you can use this one next time also to reinforce the metaphor 😂

The first time I ever facilitated a workshop, I was terrified. I had never been in charge of keeping a conversation on track before, and I certainly didn't know how to handle silence.Silence is a fundamental tool for facilitation. In fact, it can help teams to better collaborate and come up with creative solutions for highly complex problems. At first, silence may be seen as a challenge to participants, but over time, they realize that silence allows them to listen more carefully and think more deeply about their proposals.They also understand that silence gives others the opportunity to do the same, and as a result, everyone becomes more thoughtful in their interactions and produces better results. Working together-alone is a way to use silence. Walking meditation is another. How are you using silence in facilitation?

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Kerri Price
Austin Govella
Joao Ribeiro
Rebecca Courtney
Shaul Nemtzov
New comment Mar 13
  • 0 likes • Jan 23

    @David Finnegan ah the water sip! Nice! 😀

  • 2 likes • Jan 24

    @Kerri Price @Austin Govella Same here! The best answer I can give at the moment is to focus on the transition you want! For example, if you choose to have a deep work time using low-volume concentration music in the background, you can stop the music to signal that that activity is over. On the other hand, if you choose to have deep work without music and in silence, you can start fading-in music to announce that the activity is close to the end and there are only X minutes left, slowly "waking up" the participants from their deep focus. In summary, I use sound to help me make smoother transitions throughout the workshop. One thing that is important though is to be consistent throughout the session so the interplay between music and silence starts to gain meaning over time.

Mastering the art of eliciting information is very crucial in order to understand client needs clearly, sometimes the clients may not give you the root causes for their issues, you may end up treating symptoms and that's will impact the delivery and outcomes. Asking the same question from different angles and different people will give you better clues. mini-meeting with several members from the client's team; will give you the chance to observe how they are interacting and guide each other to the root causes. anymore ideas :)

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Will Stammers
Kerri Price
Joao Ribeiro
Hassanein Ismail
Shannon Wagers
New comment Mar 13
  • 2 likes • Jan 25

    Loved the questions from @Kerri Price 😀 adding some of these to my briefing toolkit! On my side I usually ask these two questions: 1. “I want you to imagine that the workshop is over! It’s done! How would you finish the sentence ‘this workshop was very useful and impactful to me and the group because….’?” 2. “Again, imagine that the workshop is over! How would you finish the sentence ‘this workshop was a waste of everyone’s time because…’?” These questions will give you a lot of information to build from! You may learn in question 1 about the overall goals of the client and how the workshop fits with that! You may learn with question 2 what the client has tried out before and did not work, etc.

Recently I read a post by @Kerri Price in linkedin where she was asked if “Aren’t you worried they’ll copy your stuff?” when she readily shares her tips and tricks with other facilitators. Her answer is similar to mine so I decided to share here with you a video I use as reference to address this topic where Steve Jobs is quoting Picasso and saying: “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” What this means is that we are all stealing from each other! Aj&Smart steals from the Design Sprint and dozens of facilitation books, the Design Sprint steals from lean startup and agile methodologies, the business model canvas steals from visual thinking, and so on and so forth! Now, notice that stealing in this quote is better than copying! While copying would be the mere act of doing the same as someone else without making it your own, stealing is here referred to as the act of copying with care, property and adaptation to your own context. This is what Picasso was referring to. So steal away, avoid copying, and give credit where credit is due! This is how we evolve ;) Joao

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Divyansh Pandey
Joao Ribeiro
Jakub Michalski
Msoo Mee
Shannon Wagers
New comment Mar 12

Perhaps one of the biggest perks of a community like this is to openly share failures and have a laugh about it 😀 What were some of your most memorable fails to date throughout your facilitation journey? Either yours or that you witnessed first hand! Let’s hear it! I’ll start in the comments!

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Joao Ribeiro
Hassanein Ismail
Susanne van den Berg
Tomoo Okubo
Shannon Wagers
New comment Mar 12
  • 1 like • Feb 27

    @Tomoo Okubo you are most welcome :) Exactly humour is our best friend together with taking learnings out of failures :)

  • 0 likes • Feb 27

    @Susanne van den Berg Wow! thanks for sharign this! Hybrid setups are a minefield for disaster. But I am also often fascinated by these and still give it a go now and again for the challenge of it!I can totally relate to the "energy drain" you are mentioning!

In workshops and other group settings, I've found that using music as a separator of activities can be really helpful in getting people to transition from one activity to the next. For example, to signal we are about to start a task like writing down our own individual thoughts on post-its, I will often put on some mellow background music to create a more focused atmosphere. That way, people aren't so inclined to jump right into conversations with one another and can take a few minutes to gather their thoughts.Then, when it's time for us to move on, I'll usually stop the music and invite everyone's attention back to the group. Over time, music becomes a natural signal on what we are about to do next.It's amazing how something as simple as music can help people move seamlessly from one mode of thinking and working to another! How are you using music in your facilitation practice? P.S. I am sharing my go-to playlists in the first comment below.

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Joao Ribeiro
Msoo Mee
Blessed Usmanking
Fachriadi Tanjung
Shannon Wagers
New comment Mar 11

Hi all, As asked today during our meetup here is a link to the egg drop exercise. It's from Nasa and good enough to get started https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/556927main_Adv-RS_Egg_Drop.pdf @Jonathan Courtney if you have a more detailed resource please share it :) The variant I recommended today was to divide participants in two types of teams: - The "More time, less tries" team: this team has 1 to 1.5 hours but only 2 eggs, and they need to have 1 egg for the final demo when the time ends, so in practice they have one try-out. - The "less time, more tries" team: this team has 30 to 45 minutes but has unlimited eggs (well nothing is unlimited but you get what I mean ahah) When you drop the eggs in the final comparison 99% of the time the "less time, more tries" teams win! The exercise stimulates collaboration, prototyping and experimentation, demonstrating that more experiments and iterations beat more time and analysis. Joao

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Shaul Nemtzov
Bryan Guzmán
Morgan Rowland
Scott Fry
Joao Ribeiro
New comment Mar 11
  • 0 likes • Mar 11

    @Rebecca Courtney happy to hear :)))) You're welcome!! It's tons of fun, you will love it!

  • 0 likes • Mar 11

    @Morgan Rowland Works great as part of a larger context. for example a training in Design Thinking. Yes, it takes some time. Overall you need 3 to 4 hours considering briefs, breaks and reflections.

I'm planning to facilitate my first workshop using the tools from attending the Design Sprint MasterClass and currently doing the Facilitation Fundamentals one. My plan is to do a 3 hour workshop and use the Expert Interviews, HMW, Long Term Goal, Sprint Questions & Map exercises and tools. In preparation, I will be revisiting the Remote Design Sprint Masterclass and will be speaking with the client tomorrow for the pre-sprint call. I plan to use the template Miro board prepared by AJ & Smart and will do a mock run through with my technical facilitator a few days before. Considering my lack of experience, I guess I'd appreciate advice, if I might be missing something fundamental that i should consider/prepare for. I'm really excited about it, but in equal measure, quite anxious about it too and sometimes think I might be setting myself up for failure.

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Joao Ribeiro
Dave Gregurke
LaYinka Sanni
Msoo Mee
Phillip Ross
New comment Mar 9
  • 3 likes • Feb 28

    So how did it go @Elisabeth Jimenez ? :)

  • 1 like • Mar 9

    @Msoo Mee happy to hear it helped you :)

Currently I am in the search for some inspiration for songs /tracks for making my own playlist filled with music that is chill but sparks creativity at the same time. If you have tips about genres that works well or other points that gives me inspiration on this topic I am all ear for suggestion 🙌🌟

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Sam Pettersson
Kat Mather
David Newman
Alissa Sylvestre
Chefrany Laitenu
New comment Mar 3
  • 0 likes • Feb 24

    @Claudia Hartmann Interesting. what actually happened? Is there a potential issue playing your own spotify during workshops?

  • 1 like • Feb 27

    @Santina Burakiewicz Carlson Interesting never heard of this! thanks for sharing! Meanwhile I found an alternative that seems to be safe: https://www.soundtrackyourbrand.com/

Hello! I am brand new to facilitation and have probably facilitated under ten times since starting my new role in September 2022. I landed a role as a Learning & Development Specialist and I am working on developing leadership skills within Texas A&M University staff & faculty employees. I love implementing things from AJ&Smart videos on YouTube and I hope to gain plenty of insight from this club too! I am MBTI and DDI certified and I am happy to provide any insight on those as well. Thanks for your time!

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Rebecca Courtney
Dani Peralta
David Newman
Jakub Michalski
Joao Ribeiro
New comment Feb 27
  • 0 likes • Feb 27

    Welcome! I teach in Norway and Portugal at different Universities. Happy to share experiences in Academia + Facilitation! :)

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.

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Jakub Michalski
David Newman
Joao Ribeiro
Adamma Stekovics
Susanne van den Berg
New comment Feb 27

In what situations would you say facilitation and workshops are the wrong answer and approach? One obvious to me is when the problem is well defined, solution is fairly known and it can be implemented by a handful of people. In other words, when there are low levels of uncertainty. What else? Let's hear your thoughts :)

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Benoit Tremblay Cormier
Joao Ribeiro
Tomoo Okubo
Rebecca Courtney
Martyn Bowis
New comment Feb 22
  • 0 likes • Feb 15

    @Michael Burow I like that first sentence eheh makes sense! Also a bulldozer would not only be overkill, you'd probably fail ahah

  • 1 like • Feb 21

    @Rebecca Courtney thanks! Great prompts for assessing this 😀

Hello everyone. I have a burning question!!! How do you think the increasing use and advancement of AI technology will impact the role of facilitators and trainers in the professional development industry, and what changes might we expect to see in the way training and development programs are delivered as a result? Is our industry at risk? What are your thoughts?🤨

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Musakabantu Unene
David Newman
Johannes Berner
Rebecca Courtney
Michaela Buehler
New comment Feb 21
  • 1 like • Feb 20

    @Stefan Bebie thank you 😀 I agree! We will most likely come across plenty of challenges and opportunities to facilitate AI related themes! I know the AI design sprint! It’s a great example! Funny enough I also think that we will be having more and more fundamental human facilitation requests with the widespread of AI! I’m thinking emotional intelligence, collaboration, etc. these topics will also come more to the forefront of needs as AI takes over the more mundane repetitive cognitive tasks in teams I believe

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    @Musakabantu Unene you’re welcome! Yes, I like to see AI as a team member! It has the potential to enhance any team and the future of framing for me is human-AI teaming 😀

Lateral thinking is a creative problem-solving approach that involves looking at a problem from different angles or perspectives. Its techniques can be very useful for facilitation processes, for example for brainstorming. Let's see how we can use chatGPT to help us improve our lateral thinking capacity. Swipe the images to check it out. How are you using lateral thinking in your facilitation practice?

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Akshay Chillal
Divyansh Pandey
Anders Rønnau
David Newman
New comment Feb 19

Good day, everyone. I was wondering if any of you had any experience with sensitive topics. Discussing a negative organizational culture with the organization's founders and executive team. According to the needs analysis, leadership is required (in their own words repeated 41 times out of 67 "TOXIC"). How can I facilitate the conversation about establishing a new culture without causing problems? PS. The leadership team is comprised of aggressive and dismissive/defensive individuals. 😎 How do I demonstrate my worth?

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Ruben Willems
Musakabantu Unene
David Newman
Thomas Boese
Anders Rønnau
New comment Feb 17
  • 2 likes • Feb 16

    These topics need special care! What I did in the past and recommend you is: do not meet in the offices or anywhere they usually interact with each other! If you meet in the places where they usually have toxicity you’ll most likely fail! Remove them to somewhere new for everyone! Ideally with nature and outside space! Start the workshop in silence and ask everyone to just walk outside by themselves and journal what they feel! Consider giving them prompts like “I like…” “I wish…” “what if…” then when they come back start pairing them for discussion! Then increase the side of the groups step by step! You can do any variation of this, the thing is that you need to transition them into the workshop with much more care! As people get more warmed up you can then bring all the “I like” together, cluster and celebrate that! Then move into “I wish “and “what if”, cluster and vote in teams which ones to discuss that day with ideation! Again you can do any variation of this but focus on easing them into the workshop in a new environment 😃

  • 0 likes • Feb 16

    @Musakabantu Unene you’re welcome! I understand! I think that makes it even more critical to meet somewhere “neutral”!!

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