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Facilitation in 30 seconds
Coming week I'm giving a keynote lecture in a conference (technical topic) and I will be speaking in front of about 150 people. The session chair would like to promote me and my new facilitation business when he calls me up on stage, and he asked for my suggestion. Also, in the audience will be representatives of MANY of my potential clients, both from my niche industry and group leaders from academia, with whom I can chitchat about my new facilitation business later. Most people in the audience never heard about facilitation, and as Russel Brunson says, they are still cold clients - they are either skeptic or they don't know that they need it. Any idea how to explain to clueless people, in 30 seconds, why facilitation is THE thing they miss in life? Any ideas are welcome :)
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5 likes • Jan 23
Hey Anat, a big congratulation on getting this wonderful opportunity and wish you a great success in a coming week. I really do hope you could come back and share with us what's happened in the conference and the FAQs from your potential clients when it comes to facilitation. But before that, I would try to explore your question from my perspective and experience that might be different from some others. If I were in your position, I would generally 1. forget about facilitation, or take off the facilitator's hat off, at least for the moment. 2. consider this 30s as a marketing session to grab audience's ATTENTION on their problems, challenges and pain-points as well as my chances to help them solving them. One quick way to run the session is to use a survey in which a list of challenges in work has been listed on my presentation slide and the audiences are supposed to clap along each item. The more challenging the item is, the harder they are supposed to clap. And soon the top 3 challenges would come up based on everyone's participation. 3. arouse their INTEREST by showing them the possible outcome and benefits that could make a difference around the top 3 challenges. Design a follow-up session where anyone interested would know where to find me / how to reach me. It could be a subscribe button with an e-mail collector, or simply an live event code bar for registration. Audience are also encouraged to bring one peer from different company or at least different apartment to the future event so that I could maximize the chance to sell my facilitation there. And that is why the next phase is known as DECIDE 4. 1:1 conversation after the 30s pitch is also a good choice and I believe fellows leaving comments have done a better job explaining it. I think I'll wrap up and hope that helps in a way. If there's only one thing left to add, I would suggest a gift-giving ending which would serve as a call-to-action trigger that move the audience from ATTENTION to INTEREST or from INTEREST to greater INTEREST.
1 like • Jan 30
@Bas van der Paardt thanks Bas and the van Gogh look was made re-edited by AI lol
#3 What's Your Favorite Tool?
Dear all, I would try to start a weekly board project in which each week a question would be posted and anyone is more than welcomed to leave your feedback below. Each feedback can be seen as a sub-topic that may drive curiosity, interaction, sharing and even help. Thanks for your support for previous ones and the following is the episode three and let's how it may flow. I would like to know what is your favorite tool for online collaborative workshop, as I realize there are many options and each facilitator may have his/her own preferences. Sometimes, a single tool works perfectly such as miro or figma, but when put together with Teams or other live conference app, the learning and working curve for audience may be much longer than expected, with issues and bugs going on from time to time. So what's your hack on that? Meanwhile, I am also curious about if there's an element of AI in your facilitation, when it comes to note-taking, summary, brainstorm or optimizing writing, etc.
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0 likes • Jan 30
@Simon Tratnik sounds cool and I can't wait to try it; Keynote is intended for one way immersive presentation experience.
0 likes • Jan 30
@Nektarios Sylligardakis that's pretty user-centric and screen share is what I usually do during facilitation. I may use links in the comment section for interaction but it takes little time and efforts and sometimes may cause distraction but generally works well.
#4 What is your drive
Dear all, I would try to start a (bi)weekly board project in which each week or once every two weeks a question would be posted and anyone is more than welcomed to leave your feedback below. Each feedback can be seen as a sub-topic that may drive curiosity, interaction, sharing and even help. Thanks for your support for previous ones and the following is the episode four and let's how it may flow. The question is: what is the drive for you to continue the journey as a facilitator? After so many challenges, frustrations, uncertainties, sufferings, what is THE THING that empowers you to carry on? With possibly other options in career and personal interest, what is THE THING that makes facilitation always among the top 3 on your list? The question may have false-presumptions and please feel free to share anything that comes up into your head and heart. I appreciate everything.
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0 likes • Jan 23
@Simon Tratnik That's awesome Simon and it motivates me a lot. Thanks for sharing
0 likes • Jan 24
@Dan Roberts that's absolutely inspiring Dan
If not facilitation then what?!
Good Morning everyone, As I was watching the various videos and I think specifically the 5-1-6 video I noted that there was suggestion individuals do not really promote themselves as facilitators, that there is usually something else that they do or offer instead. So my question is, do you promote yourself as a facilitator and if not, how do you promote yourself? What tools/techniques do you use to get yourself those facilitation pieces of work? I look forward to hearing from you.
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1 like • Jan 23
Great question and I've been searching for the answer for a couple of years. Got inspired by the ideas in the comment section and thanks for everything.
#1 What's the Challenge?
Dear all, I would try to start a weekly board project in which each week a question would be posted and anyone is more than welcomed to leave your feedback below. Each feedback can be seen as a sub-topic that may drive curiosity, interaction, sharing and even help. The following is the episode one and let's how it may flow. #1 What do you currently find most challenging as a facilitator and why is that? The question has a chance to bring together a number of challenges people are facing at this moment /stage on their journey of being a facilitator. People with the same challenge have a chance to know and get together with each other and people with strategies, tactics, resources, stories could step out to share. As the process continues, it could be possible for us to create a collaborative challenge-hack map and we could also have a chance to expect what's coming at the next level / stage of the journey. Feel free to leave your comment below and your interaction with those comments are greatly appreciated.
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New comment Jan 17
1 like • Dec '23
@Salvatore Larosa Great insights Salvatore and I really appreciate that. Elevating workshops as critical components in a change process puts us in a bigger picture of an integrated solution to a certain problem/challenge. What activities do you usually use as a combo with workshops and very much love to hear more about this.
1 like • Jan 9
@Amanda Witman Thanks again Amanda for sharing and I feel that too with so much good content with sparks of wisdom. Usually I would open a figma page to put everything on the limitless canvas and tell myself not to rush organizing them into a system/structure. If any one of you reading this thread, feel free to drop your thoughts and hacks on this so that we may get a chance to try one by one, or even we could co-create the learning map together one day.
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