![]() Learning the right facilitation skills will help you make sure it’s the latter rather than the former and will make your workshops feel buttery smooth and enjoyable to be in.īut how do you gain facilitation confidence, especially if you’ve had little to no previous facilitation experience? You have the ultimate influence on how participants will feel after the workshop is over: drained and overwhelmed, or inspired, brimming with ideas, and ready to take action. Now let’s look at each of these building blocks in more detail and define what exactly you need to do, step-by-step, to integrate them into your workshop.įacilitation is the secret sauce that can make or break a workshop.Īs a workshop facilitator, you’re not only responsible for organizing the workshop process itself, defining the sequence of the exercises, and guiding the team through these exercises on the workshop day. You have to be mindful of these especially if you’re new to running workshops: missing just 1 or 2 can already result in your session feeling messy and disorganized!Īnd there you have it, these five elements are the universal workshop building blocks that EVERY successful workshop needs. Workshop Principles–These are meta-rules that govern every workshop you run.Here at AJ&Smart we use the 4C’s framework we’ve developed in-house after running and analyzing thousands of workshops ( and you can download a free book about it here!) Workshop Framework– This is the glue that holds the entire workshop together, a system that gives every workshop its logical order and structure.And while having the right exercises is important, we highly recommend you NOT to obsess about learning a gazillion new exercises.but more on that later! The Exercises–This is the workshop building block that most of the people are familiar with, because it’s the most obvious one! This is also the building block that gets a disproportionate amount of attention from most novice facilitators, because they think finding the one Holy Grail exercise will make their workshops better and more efficient.If you’re not projecting confidence your workshop attendees will feel it, and lose the trust in the process before even giving it a real shot. Facilitation Skills–Needless to say, a good facilitator can make or break a workshop.These elements might not be obvious from the outside to an inexperienced facilitator, or to the workshop participants, but EVERY well-designed workshop has them:
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