Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Facilitation skills follow up

The training today went well. I tried to be aware of the three facilitation skills mentioned in the book. I consciously tried to wait five seconds for a response but I didn't really have to wait long except when I asked for volunteers. I had a great group today that were very responsive. I also tried to be aware of how I reacted to each response and "affirm all voices". I believe I've always done this. It seems like to natural thing to acknowledge the particpant by eye contact and body langugage. I also tried to use weaving by referring to the information we had covered earlier. I'm happy to report I had all "5"s on the evaluations by the participants. The evaluations ask six questions which are rated on a scale of one to five: I learned a lot in this session; the things I learned in this session will help me do my job better; the material in this session was presented in an interesting way; the exercises in this session helped me to better understand important concepts; the trainer was well prepared; and the trainer seemed knowledgeable about this topic.

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  1. Great job!! Thanks for reporting back and congratulations on all 5s! What an accomplishment. I agree that eye contact and body language seems natural but I can't tell you how many times I have had facilitators that this just doesn't seem natural to or facilitators who must have a hundred things on their mind and you can tell they are focusing on other things and just seem to forget these natural things!!

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