Facilitator Skills are something we take seriously here at playmeo, and I am always looking for ways to add value to our community. Which is filled with some of the best teachers and trainers in the world.
With 30+ years of experience delivering programs all over the world with 10s of thousands of people, I've learned a lot about how to conclude my programs in the most engaging, fun ways.
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Click play, watch & learn three innovative ways to finish your programs, especially those which occur over a long period of time.
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 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 Episode 40 of the Facilitator Tips video series. My name is Mark Collard, and it’s my pleasure to present to you as an experiential trainer and author a whole series of little tips and strategies that I found really useful to help me facilitate with groups, and today I want to focus on how to end a program.
Now it seems so obvious but for someone like myself who tends not to feel very good about conforming or doing what everyone else has done just because of the way we do it, I tend to find some creative, engaging, or indeed fun ways to do things.
And I want to focus, what you do at the end. Now ordinarily what do we do? We hand out evaluation forms or we stand there and get a clap and bow. Look, that can all still happen but maybe there’s some alternatives, and here’s a few.
First of all, find three, that is get up, find three people individually and share with them your response to a question that I have posed. It might be hey, share with someone and three people a highlight, or something that really challenged you, or something that you’ve discovered, whatever the question might be. It will generate a lot more energy to finish your program than the alternative.
If you happen to have certificates, that is, there’s some form of certificate of completion at the end, hand out those randomly to everybody and then ask them to go find the person listed on the certificate and then provide some form of affirmation to that person. And that would be a great way to again engage lots of people, maybe with people who wouldn’t ordinarily meet. Everyone gets their own certificate back.
Moving evaluations, I love this one. In a hall, I will set up a series of posts or stations, each of them dedicated to a particular topic or a question. And I invite people, almost like this is the moving evaluation, to move to as many if not all of those places. When they get there there will be a question such as how much did you enjoy the program, how did this benefit you.
When you get there, share your response with who else is also in that same spot. You stay for as long as you want and then you move to another spot, you share with whoever is there. It involves the body. It generates energy. It’s a little different. And you only go to those areas that you really want to respond to.
And a little bit the same, I call this the fort bubble, is that when you get there you actually list what your feedback is. So when you go to each of these stations, you actually determine what it is that you want to share. And it could be a word, a picture, or a phrase and so on.
But there are so many other ways. Maybe you’ve got some ideas you’d like to share as well. Please leave a comment. If you would like some further information check out our show notes at https://www.playmeo.com/facilitatortips/episode40 in which we have looked at how to end a program.
Hopefully, you found a few useful nuggets of ideas for your own program in here. If not, reach out to me. hello@playmeo.com is my email address and I would love to be able to respond to your questions if you would like some help.
Okay, that’s it for now. I look forward to seeing you in our next episode. Thanks for watching. Bye-bye.
#facilitationskills #facilitatorskillstraining #facilitator #facilitation #playmeo
With 30+ years of experience delivering programs all over the world with 10s of thousands of people, I've learned a lot about how to conclude my programs in the most engaging, fun ways.
|| https://www.playmeo.com/facilitatortips/episode40 ||
Click play, watch & learn three innovative ways to finish your programs, especially those which occur over a long period of time.
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 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 Episode 40 of the Facilitator Tips video series. My name is Mark Collard, and it’s my pleasure to present to you as an experiential trainer and author a whole series of little tips and strategies that I found really useful to help me facilitate with groups, and today I want to focus on how to end a program.
Now it seems so obvious but for someone like myself who tends not to feel very good about conforming or doing what everyone else has done just because of the way we do it, I tend to find some creative, engaging, or indeed fun ways to do things.
And I want to focus, what you do at the end. Now ordinarily what do we do? We hand out evaluation forms or we stand there and get a clap and bow. Look, that can all still happen but maybe there’s some alternatives, and here’s a few.
First of all, find three, that is get up, find three people individually and share with them your response to a question that I have posed. It might be hey, share with someone and three people a highlight, or something that really challenged you, or something that you’ve discovered, whatever the question might be. It will generate a lot more energy to finish your program than the alternative.
If you happen to have certificates, that is, there’s some form of certificate of completion at the end, hand out those randomly to everybody and then ask them to go find the person listed on the certificate and then provide some form of affirmation to that person. And that would be a great way to again engage lots of people, maybe with people who wouldn’t ordinarily meet. Everyone gets their own certificate back.
Moving evaluations, I love this one. In a hall, I will set up a series of posts or stations, each of them dedicated to a particular topic or a question. And I invite people, almost like this is the moving evaluation, to move to as many if not all of those places. When they get there there will be a question such as how much did you enjoy the program, how did this benefit you.
When you get there, share your response with who else is also in that same spot. You stay for as long as you want and then you move to another spot, you share with whoever is there. It involves the body. It generates energy. It’s a little different. And you only go to those areas that you really want to respond to.
And a little bit the same, I call this the fort bubble, is that when you get there you actually list what your feedback is. So when you go to each of these stations, you actually determine what it is that you want to share. And it could be a word, a picture, or a phrase and so on.
But there are so many other ways. Maybe you’ve got some ideas you’d like to share as well. Please leave a comment. If you would like some further information check out our show notes at https://www.playmeo.com/facilitatortips/episode40 in which we have looked at how to end a program.
Hopefully, you found a few useful nuggets of ideas for your own program in here. If not, reach out to me. hello@playmeo.com is my email address and I would love to be able to respond to your questions if you would like some help.
Okay, that’s it for now. I look forward to seeing you in our next episode. Thanks for watching. Bye-bye.
#facilitationskills #facilitatorskillstraining #facilitator #facilitation #playmeo