Facilitation 101: Everything You Need To Know

A workshop facilitator is like a guide - they ensure everyone stays on track and moves forward together. The role of a facilitator is to facilitate, which means to make things easy and more straightforward.

🤔 What else would you like to know about workshop facilitation? Please leave your questions in the comments below👇

⏰ Video timestamps:

0:00 Intro
0:28 What is facilitation?
1:20 How to use facilitation?
2:13 What does a facilitator do?
2:57 What makes a good facilitator (8 key characteristics)
3:02 1. Visualizing information
3:48 2. Be the guide, not the hero
4:13 3. Maintaining neutrality
4:27 4. Using questioning
5:01 5. Being adaptable
5:40 6. Having a robust toolkit of exercises and techniques
6:09 7. Being authentic
6:50 8. Managing energy

Thanks for watching!

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Facilitation 101: Everything You Need To Know

[cambridgedictionary]

Thank you for using the Cambridge Dictionary. We're so happy to hear that we 'facilitate' the great work you do😀.

[AJSmart]

What are your questions about facilitation? Leave them in the comments below 👇

[lookidsvideos]

Can you please explain the examples of facilitation techniques and tools like-
Brainstorming examples
Ice breaker examples
Visualization examples

[tuams]

This was very good! Thank you! Yes, please share more about how the value of facilitation, techniques to use (pro tips) and how to get buy in from stakeholders to have more useful workshops.

[damiengauthier]

Super nice video, very instructive. Keep delivering the good stuff 👏 👍 👌 🙌 and wonderful host 😀

[Idontrololol]

I actually think that first ''weird'' definition works perfectly. By facilitating you help people bring forth ideas/a way of thinking (lowering the threshold) in new ways other than what they might have been thinking routinely (breaking the repeated use old pathway of thinking)

[bretwalder]

If you are a member of a team and take on the role of facilitator, do you contribute to its conent at all, or is there a way to do this and still remain outside the process and content?

[MohamedAminAfifi]

Thanks a lot for this video it was informative and funny as well😅. Even as a facilitator I need a reminder of the core skills we need in such career. I understood that a facilitator shall be a bit neutral while coordinating sessions or meetings, so I wonder if the facilitator was specialized in a certain field, would that effect his/her role in a good or a bad way?

[brucieb]

This sounds really useful I can it belıeve more large companies don't employ a facilitator. I am currently doing th Google UX course and would love to have facilitator qualification to go with it - do the exist?

[cillboon]

Rebecca, have you replaced Jonathan? It's not often you hear a strong Irish brogue on YouTube. Love it or should that be fair play to ya. Anyway my questions, what are the main DOs and DON'TS for facilitation and what are the he biggest errors that new facilitators often fall into. Both questions are probably related.

[DesignRobot_co]

I saw the video from the link and to be 💯 transparent it felt like being in a long hour boring meeting that facilitation is supposed to solve. I challenge AJ and smart to turn that video into a 10 minute brief. It’s way to wordy and comes off way to salesperson like.

My intent is to help and I hope that my feedback does that.

[drjmapple]

How do you handle participants that won’t share their thoughts because they fear losing their job? They try to have a monopoly on information so that no one else can do their job.

[InternetAnalysis]

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[WhiskeyThieves]

Ummm...sounds exactly like a Project Manager to me

[tomi_moreno]

Love this content! Actually demystify many product/project role abilities, creating a clear guide for using the facilitator hat 🦾🦾🦾