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Do you get nervous when standing in front of a group?
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Click play and watch this week’s Facilitator Tips episode to learn a couple of simple strategies to help you manage and calm your nerves when leading groups.
This is just one of many dozens of leadership tips you can use to improve the participation, relationships and overall performance of your students, staff and team.
This Facilitator Tips video tutorial is presented by Mark Collard, one of the world's most experienced & respected experiential trainers in the world. As a Master of Group Games & Activities, Mark can teach you how to help your team engage, interact & connect with one another more powerfully.
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Hi there and welcome to the Facilitator Tips video series. My name is Mark Collard, I work as an experiential trainer and an author, and we’re up to Episode 48. And in this episode, I want to focus on how do you manage nerves. Now I’ve been leading groups for well over forty years of my life, thirty of them professionally where I got paid.
And so it’s really easy for people to look at me and go oh man, you made that look so easy, do you ever get nervous. The quick answer is yes, I still get nerves, but I will say I’ve got some great strategies in place now that help me manage them, and this episode is about sharing a few of those ideas.
The first one is prep. Look, what do they say, if you fail to plan then you plan to fail. That’s true. I never like to just turn up and go I’m just going to wing it today. Look, there’s a certain amount of experience that will get me out of trouble on those occasions, but honestly, I will feel a lot more nervous on those occasions unless of course, I’ve spent the time to prepare my group.
Fail-proof activities. You’ve got to have a set of experiences up your sleeve that you can just pull out in a moment’s notice that often builds energy, keeps the group busy, and that maybe doesn’t even need a lot of supervision. And that will also calm your nerves because once you’ve got some of that stuff going on, things are just a lot easier, a lot easier to get success.
Building energy. Anything you can do to build energy will always help me calm down. If I’m working with a cold room, a group that’s not even looking to each other, don’t know each other’s names and it’s all very cold, that makes me even more nervous. Once people start to warm up, loosen up, interact… Build energy, critical strategy.
To connect. What I try to do is connect with one or more people as the program starts to get going, or maybe in the unofficial start, is to understand hey, if I can get to know some people’s names I can then use their eyeline, I can then build some rapport with them and that really helps me feel a lot more grounded, a lot less nervous because I know something, I’ve made a connection with people. Again that goes to that whole concept of to connect before content.
I mentioned the unofficial starts. All of what I’ve just shared here comes under that heading, so absolutely check out Episode 43 of this series which talks greatly about unofficial starts.
And then finally be authentic. A group will be able to see through you a mile away, and if they can understand like in terms of a crap-o-meter, like this is just crap, he’s trying to be something he’s not, people sniff that out really quickly. Look, if you are nervous it’s okay to say this… like, oh, I’ve never done this before, I’m not sure how this is going to work out. People will often come along for the ride if you’re just being genuine.
Okay, and there’s a whole lot to share in this space, and so I encourage you to reach out to me. hello@playmeo.com is a great way to connect with me, but there are many people you can connect with within the Playmeo ecosystem as well. Leave a comment for example. And if you found some value in this and would like to share this with your colleagues you are absolutely more than welcome.
Okay, that’s it for Episode 48, and you can find more show notes at https://www.playmeo.com/facilitatortips/episode48.
Until the next episode I hope you have a great time. Bye for now.
#facilitationskills #facilitatorskillstraining #facilitator #facilitation #playmeo
Do you get nervous when standing in front of a group?
|| https://www.playmeo.com/facilitatortips/episode48 ||
Click play and watch this week’s Facilitator Tips episode to learn a couple of simple strategies to help you manage and calm your nerves when leading groups.
This is just one of many dozens of leadership tips you can use to improve the participation, relationships and overall performance of your students, staff and team.
This Facilitator Tips video tutorial is presented by Mark Collard, one of the world's most experienced & respected experiential trainers in the world. As a Master of Group Games & Activities, Mark can teach you how to help your team engage, interact & connect with one another more powerfully.
Was this video helpful? Please leave a comment...
|| Video Transcription ||
Hi there and welcome to the Facilitator Tips video series. My name is Mark Collard, I work as an experiential trainer and an author, and we’re up to Episode 48. And in this episode, I want to focus on how do you manage nerves. Now I’ve been leading groups for well over forty years of my life, thirty of them professionally where I got paid.
And so it’s really easy for people to look at me and go oh man, you made that look so easy, do you ever get nervous. The quick answer is yes, I still get nerves, but I will say I’ve got some great strategies in place now that help me manage them, and this episode is about sharing a few of those ideas.
The first one is prep. Look, what do they say, if you fail to plan then you plan to fail. That’s true. I never like to just turn up and go I’m just going to wing it today. Look, there’s a certain amount of experience that will get me out of trouble on those occasions, but honestly, I will feel a lot more nervous on those occasions unless of course, I’ve spent the time to prepare my group.
Fail-proof activities. You’ve got to have a set of experiences up your sleeve that you can just pull out in a moment’s notice that often builds energy, keeps the group busy, and that maybe doesn’t even need a lot of supervision. And that will also calm your nerves because once you’ve got some of that stuff going on, things are just a lot easier, a lot easier to get success.
Building energy. Anything you can do to build energy will always help me calm down. If I’m working with a cold room, a group that’s not even looking to each other, don’t know each other’s names and it’s all very cold, that makes me even more nervous. Once people start to warm up, loosen up, interact… Build energy, critical strategy.
To connect. What I try to do is connect with one or more people as the program starts to get going, or maybe in the unofficial start, is to understand hey, if I can get to know some people’s names I can then use their eyeline, I can then build some rapport with them and that really helps me feel a lot more grounded, a lot less nervous because I know something, I’ve made a connection with people. Again that goes to that whole concept of to connect before content.
I mentioned the unofficial starts. All of what I’ve just shared here comes under that heading, so absolutely check out Episode 43 of this series which talks greatly about unofficial starts.
And then finally be authentic. A group will be able to see through you a mile away, and if they can understand like in terms of a crap-o-meter, like this is just crap, he’s trying to be something he’s not, people sniff that out really quickly. Look, if you are nervous it’s okay to say this… like, oh, I’ve never done this before, I’m not sure how this is going to work out. People will often come along for the ride if you’re just being genuine.
Okay, and there’s a whole lot to share in this space, and so I encourage you to reach out to me. hello@playmeo.com is a great way to connect with me, but there are many people you can connect with within the Playmeo ecosystem as well. Leave a comment for example. And if you found some value in this and would like to share this with your colleagues you are absolutely more than welcome.
Okay, that’s it for Episode 48, and you can find more show notes at https://www.playmeo.com/facilitatortips/episode48.
Until the next episode I hope you have a great time. Bye for now.
#facilitationskills #facilitatorskillstraining #facilitator #facilitation #playmeo