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memorandum
IMPORTANT TIPS FOR EFFECTIVE FACILITATION
A. BEFORE THE WORKSHOP
* Schedule ample time for planning
* Take some time to get to know each other
* Discuss each other’s style of planning and facilitating
* Avoid making assumptions about one another
* Take time to discuss your views about the workshop topic
* Especially examine areas of disagreement
* Discuss any concerns about potential challenges that participants may present
* Agree on common goals for workshop
* Review each other’s triggers
* Find out whether and when it is okay to interrupt
* Decide how to keep track of time
* Strategize about how to stick to the original outline and how to switch gears
* Plan ways to give signals to one another
* Divide facilitation of activities fairly
* Share responsibility equally in preparing and bringing workshop materials and resources
* Agree to arrive at the workshop site in time to set up and check-in before the workshop begins
* Schedule time after the workshop to debrief
B. DURING THE WORKSHOP
* Remember to keep a professional demeanor at all times
* Keep communicating with each other throughout the workshop
* Support and validate one another
* During activities that don’t require constant attention, check-in with one another
* Include your co-facilitator even when you are leading an exercise or discussion, by asking, for example: “Do you have anything to add?”
* Use lots of eye contact
* Assert yourself if your co-facilitator is talking too much
* Remember that it is okay to make mistakes
* Take the initiative to step in if your co-facilitator misses an opportunity to address a myth
C. AFTER THE WORKSHOP
* If you can’t meet right after the workshop, schedule a time to debrief before you leave
* Listen carefully to one another’s self-evaluation before giving feedback
* Discuss what worked well
* Examine what did not work
* Brainstorm what could have been done differently
* Use written evaluations as a reference point to talk about the workshop, and assess your effectiveness as co-facilitators
* Name particular behaviors, for example: “When you kept interrupting me, I felt undermined and frustrated”, or “I got the impression that some participants were bored”, instead of “You always interrupt me” or “You were very controlling during the workshop.”
* Realize the importance and potential difficulty of debriefing a challenging workshop
* Make sure to share any clean-up or return of resource materials
* REMEMBER: YOU HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE
IMPORTANT TIPS FOR EFFECTIVE FACILITATION
A. BEFORE THE WORKSHOP
* Schedule ample time for planning
* Take some time to get to know each other
* Discuss each other’s style of planning and facilitating
* Avoid making assumptions about one another
* Take time to discuss your views about the workshop topic
* Especially examine areas of disagreement
* Discuss any concerns about potential challenges that participants may present
* Agree on common goals for workshop
* Review each other’s triggers
* Find out whether and when it is okay to interrupt
* Decide how to keep track of time
* Strategize about how to stick to the original outline and how to switch gears
* Plan ways to give signals to one another
* Divide facilitation of activities fairly
* Share responsibility equally in preparing and bringing workshop materials and resources
* Agree to arrive at the workshop site in time to set up and check-in before the workshop begins
* Schedule time after the workshop to debrief
B. DURING THE WORKSHOP
* Remember to keep a professional demeanor at all times
* Keep communicating with each other throughout the workshop
* Support and validate one another
* During activities that don’t require constant attention, check-in with one another
* Include your co-facilitator even when you are leading an exercise or discussion, by asking, for example: “Do you have anything to add?”
* Use lots of eye contact
* Assert yourself if your co-facilitator is talking too much
* Remember that it is okay to make mistakes
* Take the initiative to step in if your co-facilitator misses an opportunity to address a myth
C. AFTER THE WORKSHOP
* If you can’t meet right after the workshop, schedule a time to debrief before you leave
* Listen carefully to one another’s self-evaluation before giving feedback
* Discuss what worked well
* Examine what did not work
* Brainstorm what could have been done differently
* Use written evaluations as a reference point to talk about the workshop, and assess your effectiveness as co-facilitators
* Name particular behaviors, for example: “When you kept interrupting me, I felt undermined and frustrated”, or “I got the impression that some participants were bored”, instead of “You always interrupt me” or “You were very controlling during the workshop.”
* Realize the importance and potential difficulty of debriefing a challenging workshop
* Make sure to share any clean-up or return of resource materials
* REMEMBER: YOU HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE
IMPORTANT TIPS FOR EFFECTIVE FACILITATION
A. BEFORE THE WORKSHOP
* Schedule ample time for planning
* Take some time to get to know each other
* Discuss each other’s style of planning and facilitating
* Avoid making assumptions about one another
* Take time to discuss your views about the workshop topic
* Especially examine areas of disagreement
* Discuss any concerns about potential challenges that participants may present
* Agree on common goals for workshop
* Review each other’s triggers
* Find out whether and when it is okay to interrupt
* Decide how to keep track of time
* Strategize about how to stick to the original outline and how to switch gears
* Plan ways to give signals to one another
* Divide facilitation of activities fairly
* Share responsibility equally in preparing and bringing workshop materials and resources
* Agree to arrive at the workshop site in time to set up and check-in before the workshop begins
* Schedule time after the workshop to debrief
B. DURING THE WORKSHOP
* Remember to keep a professional demeanor at all times
* Keep communicating with each other throughout the workshop
* Support and validate one another
* During activities that don’t require constant attention, check-in with one another
* Include your co-facilitator even when you are leading an exercise or discussion, by asking, for example: “Do you have anything to add?”
* Use lots of eye contact
* Assert yourself if your co-facilitator is talking too much
* Remember that it is okay to make mistakes
* Take the initiative to step in if your co-facilitator misses an opportunity to address a myth
C. AFTER THE WORKSHOP
* If you can’t meet right after the workshop, schedule a time to debrief before you leave
* Listen carefully to one another’s self-evaluation before giving feedback
* Discuss what worked well
* Examine what did not work
* Brainstorm what could have been done differently
* Use written evaluations as a reference point to talk about the workshop, and assess your effectiveness as co-facilitators
* Name particular behaviors, for example: “When you kept interrupting me, I felt undermined and frustrated”, or “I got the impression that some participants were bored”, instead of “You always interrupt me” or “You were very controlling during the workshop.”
* Realize the importance and potential difficulty of debriefing a challenging workshop
* Make sure to share any clean-up or return of resource materials
* REMEMBER: YOU HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE
IMPORTANT TIPS FOR EFFECTIVE FACILITATION
A. BEFORE THE WORKSHOP
* Schedule ample time for planning
* Take some time to get to know each other
* Discuss each other’s style of planning and facilitating
* Avoid making assumptions about one another
* Take time to discuss your views about the workshop topic
* Especially examine areas of disagreement
* Discuss any concerns about potential challenges that participants may present
* Agree on common goals for workshop
* Review each other’s triggers
* Find out whether and when it is okay to interrupt
* Decide how to keep track of time
* Strategize about how to stick to the original outline and how to switch gears
* Plan ways to give signals to one another
* Divide facilitation of activities fairly
* Share responsibility equally in preparing and bringing workshop materials and resources
* Agree to arrive at the workshop site in time to set up and check-in before the workshop begins
* Schedule time after the workshop to debrief
B. DURING THE WORKSHOP
* Remember to keep a professional demeanor at all times
* Keep communicating with each other throughout the workshop
* Support and validate one another
* During activities that don’t require constant attention, check-in with one another
* Include your co-facilitator even when you are leading an exercise or discussion, by asking, for example: “Do you have anything to add?”
* Use lots of eye contact
* Assert yourself if your co-facilitator is talking too much
* Remember that it is okay to make mistakes
* Take the initiative to step in if your co-facilitator misses an opportunity to address a myth
C. AFTER THE WORKSHOP
* If you can’t meet right after the workshop, schedule a time to debrief before you leave
* Listen carefully to one another’s self-evaluation before giving feedback
* Discuss what worked well
* Examine what did not work
* Brainstorm what could have been done differently
* Use written evaluations as a reference point to talk about the workshop, and assess your effectiveness as co-facilitators
* Name particular behaviors, for example: “When you kept interrupting me, I felt undermined and frustrated”, or “I got the impression that some participants were bored”, instead of “You always interrupt me” or “You were very controlling during the workshop.”
* Realize the importance and potential difficulty of debriefing a challenging workshop
* Make sure to share any clean-up or return of resource materials
* REMEMBER: YOU HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE
IMPORTANT TIPS FOR EFFECTIVE FACILITATION
A. BEFORE THE WORKSHOP
* Schedule ample time for planning
* Take some time to get to know each other
* Discuss each other’s style of planning and facilitating
* Avoid making assumptions about one another
* Take time to discuss your views about the workshop topic
* Especially examine areas of disagreement
* Discuss any concerns about potential challenges that participants may present
* Agree on common goals for workshop
* Review each other’s triggers
* Find out whether and when it is okay to interrupt
* Decide how to keep track of time
* Strategize about how to stick to the original outline and how to switch gears
* Plan ways to give signals to one another
* Divide facilitation of activities fairly
* Share responsibility equally in preparing and bringing workshop materials and resources
* Agree to arrive at the workshop site in time to set up and check-in before the workshop begins
* Schedule time after the workshop to debrief
B. DURING THE WORKSHOP
* Remember to keep a professional demeanor at all times
* Keep communicating with each other throughout the workshop
* Support and validate one another
* During activities that don’t require constant attention, check-in with one another
* Include your co-facilitator even when you are leading an exercise or discussion, by asking, for example: “Do you have anything to add?”
* Use lots of eye contact
* Assert yourself if your co-facilitator is talking too much
* Remember that it is okay to make mistakes
* Take the initiative to step in if your co-facilitator misses an opportunity to address a myth
C. AFTER THE WORKSHOP
* If you can’t meet right after the workshop, schedule a time to debrief before you leave
* Listen carefully to one another’s self-evaluation before giving feedback
* Discuss what worked well
* Examine what did not work
* Brainstorm what could have been done differently
* Use written evaluations as a reference point to talk about the workshop, and assess your effectiveness as co-facilitators
* Name particular behaviors, for example: “When you kept interrupting me, I felt undermined and frustrated”, or “I got the impression that some participants were bored”, instead of “You always interrupt me” or “You were very controlling during the workshop.”
* Realize the importance and potential difficulty of debriefing a challenging workshop
* Make sure to share any clean-up or return of resource materials
* REMEMBER: YOU HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE