How To Be A Great Facilitator - The 8 Facilitation Skills You Need (With Tips To Improve Them)

Anyone can become a great facilitator if they have the right facilitation skills, techniques and practices in place. In this video, we share the 8 skills every workshop facilitator needs to have to go from good to GREAT. We explain why these skills are so important for your facilitation career and we also share some tangible tips, techniques and exercises to improve your facilitator skills.

🤔 What's the thing you struggle with the most when it comes to facilitation? What else would you like to know about facilitation? Share your questions in the comments below 👇

⏰ Video timestamps:

0:00 Intro
0:10 Who is a facilitator? And what makes a good one?
0:56 1️⃣ SKILL - Be the guide, not the hero (Facilitation Mindset)
1:40 2️⃣ SKILL - Time management
2:48 3️⃣ SKILL - Shortcut Circular Discussions
3:19 Tip 1 - The Parking Lot Method
4:06 Tip 2 - The Note & Vote Method
4:45 Tip 3 - Just start writing
5:08 4️⃣ SKILL - Keep energy levels high
5:42 Tip 1 - Go for a 10-minute walk
5:59 Tip 2 - High Fives
6:14 Tip 3 - Do energizer exercises
6:30 Exercise 1 - Touch blue
6:54 Exercise 2 - Fun fact
7:19 5️⃣ SKILL - Curbing Team Politics & Groupthink
7:54 Tip - Together, Alone
8:38 6️⃣ SKILL - Dealing with Troublemakers
9:13 Tip 1 - Give them tasks
9:52 Tip 2 - Ask probing questions
10:38 Tip 3 - The Parking Lot Method (again)
11:08 Tip 4 - Talk to the troublemaker in private
11:59 7️⃣ SKILL - Give clear instructions
12:46 Tip 1 - The “What-Why-How” framework
13:36 8️⃣ SKILL - Be ready to adapt
14:02 🅱️ BONUS SKILL - Remote Facilitation
14:33 What if you don’t tick all these boxes?
14:53 Next step #1 - Seek opportunities to facilitate
15:19 Next step #2 - Double down on your strengths
15:40 Next step #3 - Be proactive about your learning

Thanks for watching!

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How To Be A Great Facilitator - The 8 Facilitation Skills You Need (With Tips To Improve Them)

[AJSmart]

Hey! What's the thing you struggle with the most when it comes to facilitation? What else would you like to know about facilitation? Share your questions in the comments below 👇
📗If you want to learn even more about Workshop Facilitation grab our Free Facilitation Guidebook

[IctWilsons]

14:58 Actually, "Practice makes permanent." If you practice doing something incorrectly, you'll become "perfect" at doing it incorrectly. That said, the implication that one can get better at doing something by engaging in it is generally correct, as long as you are able to recognize (or have a peer point out) your missteps and learn from them.

Most often, missteps come from a lack of experience with a specific situation. Having experienced the situation, analyze it and critique yourself. Think about how else you could have handled it. Ask someone to review your self-critique (or, if they were present, ask for their own critique as well) and your ideas for the future. Internalize how you intend to handle the situation in the future. Then, you'll be better prepared the next time that situation arises. The more you do this, the fewer unexpected situations there will be, and the more "perfect" your facilitation will become.

[kevintucker]

This video gave me a wealth of information and courage to start facilitating. Thank you!!!

[hugodutoit]

I am a training Facilitator - I have this ever-fear that my candidates will not really understand, but yet stating that they do

[CMV.CREATE]

Been looking for this kind of content for weeks. As a Creative Producer, I've been looking for ways to lead team building and problem solving sessions. Thank you so much!

[ebutuoyssa]

Incredible! I have been conflating the terms instructor and facilitator so long that I really thought they were one in the same. This is a massive eye opening and just blows open the doors of creativity and imagination when meeting definitive objectives are based on group participation.
I’ll be saving and referencing this video as a standard. Thank you!

[SaraRylott]

Nice video.Biggest callenge is giving enough time to set the table and not rushing that piece.

[xavierjacobs]

Creating a cohesive flow within the complete course and implementing interconnective topic/objectives within the scope of a course

[kelyse]

I would love to hear more on the circular discussions and trouble makers when the workshop is remote.

[liviutoderic]

I've been soaking all this in! It seems to me, a top facilitator must master the Socratic Method

[rahmathm]

Thank you for the video and the guidebook. It's so helpful and interesting. All the best from Indonesia!

[heymarcell]

Loved the energy and valuable tips! Thanks for sharing these great facilitation skills! 🙌🔥

[shoaka]

a very insightful and practical video on facilitation. I've been looking for something like this. I'm definitely getting the book. thank you very much for the valuable content!

[lauraschwingel]

Really enjoyed this short but very informative workshop. What was most helpful were the concrete examples of how to implement the skills, especially dealing with troublemakers. Thank you!!

[joseconde]

Definitely your face is a facilitator, perfect symmetry, outstanding features, permanent smile, even your talking, big Bollywood actress eyes, tiny nose, full lips, you must publish an audio book, hard to concentrate in the video. What can l do ?, men’s are visual.

[Lumeone]

Awesome information. Very useful. About trouble makers. They are not trouble makers - they are product testers, your idea testers, so they are on your side. The question is - how do you handle objections to your ideas? It requires flashing out your own logic. It is simply a challenge, a good thing. Awesome content. Good energy.

[monhanpa]

I am learning about facilitation.This video is so impressed me.

[ajazafsar]

A very insightful video 😃 learns many things and its applicable in our daily job life

[drzafarullah]

Wonderful ideas and presentation. marvellous.

[bimpeodu]

Might be difficult to identify when things need to go in the parking lot if you’re not an sme on the topic?