A great facilitator does not make the room admire them. A great facilitator makes the room work.
Sometimes the facilitator does most of the talking. Sometimes the first long response trains everyone else to give long answers. Sometimes a session covers plenty of territory but produces nothing useful.
In this Ultamize Discover episode, you’ll get a practical sample from Facilitation Skills: Lead Better Meetings, Workshops, and Group Decisions.
This episode includes:
Stop Performing and Start Facilitating Learn to focus on what you want other people to contribute instead of planning everything you want to say. Discover how waiting, inviting multiple perspectives, and resisting the urge to improve every idea can help the group do more of the thinking.
Define What the Group Must Produce Replace vague goals such as “discuss strategy” with a specific outcome. Learn to complete the sentence, “By the end of this session, we will…” so you can prevent drift, redirect irrelevant discussion, and produce something useful.
Use this episode on its own, define the outcome of your next group session before it begins, or go deeper at Ultamize.com.
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