Ever wondered what could happen if you bring together the inventors of the Design Sprint with successful VCs? I made a video to show you. First I interviewed the co-author of Sprint, John Zeraksky, then used that to uncover their strategy to change the game in the VC world. I first posted this over on the Inner Circle, but thought Facilitator Club would love this video - let me know what you think. https://youtu.be/9J2mWKkZ0UE

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Hey, I'm keen to meet and chat with more facilitators in London. If I we're to arrange a location and post a Meet-Up for an evening in May, please let me know if you'd be interested? Please like to show interest. Location: Probably a central cafe (with alcoholic drinks).

Hello dear friends, I would like to know what strategy or arguments you use so that companies hire services from external facilitators on a permanent basis. And not only when the company detects a specific problem to solve. Thank you.

I am curious what sorts of 'prototypes' result from the workshops people run. I really also want to know sort of platforms groups use for modeling their prototypes (e.g. Miro, Figma, so on) and if you actually make physical models for your prototypes, what do you often use?

Hi guys how are you 😄 ? I’m curious and wanted to ask you if you’ve ever ran a First Principles Thinking Workshop ?

I’m curious if any facilitators have their own firm running shops or are in the process of working on it and what that looks like. I’m a UX designer however as someone who also loves business and product strategy, I’d like to know more about the journey and have further discussions in this area about your positive and challenging experiences. Thank 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

Hey all! I thought it might be interesting to start a money/success discussion amongst the facilitation chat here as I think being a successful facilitator is just as important as being a great one. So here's a topic I believe strongly about: You have to Pay to be Successful To become successful at anything, you’ll need knowledge and experience. You’ll need to learn hard lessons. To run a successful Design Consultancy, I needed to understand how to build a design team, how to sell, how to market, how to manage and everything in between. To run a successful Online Course business I needed to understand how to build online courses, how to package them and most importantly: how to sell them. To be a high-day-rate Facilitator, I had to learn not only how to run any kind of session for any type of company, but also how to SELL facilitation to any type of company. All 3 required a lot of lessons learned to bring them to their current multi-million dollar revenue states… but I used a different “currency” to build each one. In the end, there are only 2 currencies an entrepreneur can use to learn the lessons needed to become successful: 1. Time 2. Money Time: At the beginning of my career I used the only currency I had a lot of: time. It took years of grinding before AJ&Smart even reached the 7-figure (million-dollar revenue) mark. I was shooting in the dark, trying to build something from scratch, learning the lessons in real-time as they happened. It was like hiking up a mountain with no map, no guide and no signs. Eventually, I made it to the top of the mountain but it was a painful process and it nearly burned me out. This is why I decided to try a different currency for the second business: Money Money: From the beginning of building Workshopper, in fact, even before I created the first line of dialogue for my first course, I decided to pay for the lessons I needed to learn using money! For the second business I decided that if I could pay someone who’d “already been to the top of the mountain” to tell me how to get there quicker and safer, I would pay them. I didn’t want to trudge up the mountain blindly, taking years to learn the lessons that others had already learned the hard way.