Greetings
Fellow Facilitators!
Welcome
to the first official R&D team memo.
We're
excited to be finally turning up the volume on the FacilitatorU.com
project and I want to thank you for stepping forward to support
this effort! From this point on, you can expect to receive
regular emails (roughly once a week) from this list so that
I can keep you posted on site and concept developments.
I want you to know that I enthusiastically encourage your
active input and insights in response to these memos, as they
will be invaluable, if not crucial, to making this site a
success.
Further, your active response will involve you in a unique
and collaborative creative process that you may be able to
apply to your own creative business efforts.
If you find that from time to time you can't contribue, that's
fine too. Either way, you'll enjoy being part of a community
of creative collaborators, building something new and great
in the virtual world, assisting yourselves and many others
all over the real world.
Now,
to the business at hand.
We've
recently refined our current strategy for the buildout of
this site to better serve the needs being voiced in a recent
survey we conducted around facilitator needs. Hence our current
thrust is on the development of short, consise, practical,
"just in time" Facilitator Guides and Training Guides.
Facilitator
Guides
The
Facilitator Guides will address special situations that facilitators
encounter in their day-to-day work. For example, the first
guide we're working on is called, "Getting Full Participation."
Future guides will involve, building trust, building team,
starting and ending groups, handling conflict, virtual facilitation,
etc...
Training Guides
The
"Training Guides" will be detailed workshop delivery
guides for short (60-90 min.) workshops on popular subjects
many of us are often called on to deliver. These topics might
include such things as: "Time/Life Management,"
"Change Management," "Customer Service,"
Workplace Communication Skills," Self-Care, Boundary-Setting,
etc.
It's possible that we'll offer free teleclasses for each of
these modules to introduce the subjects, get feedback, questions,
and reactions from the audience, and include recordings of
the best of these sessions with each package.
So
here's where we need help right now:
1.
First, what do you think of the facilitator and training guide
concept? What ideas do you have for additional titles?
2. In our work on the first guide, "Facilitating Full
Participation," I have some questions for you.
- How do you define "Full Participation?" For instance,
some people are more introverted that others yet they are
keen observers. Though they appear to "participate"
less, when they actively engage, their input is often more
potent. So how would you characterize "Participation"
in groups?
- Why is Full Participation important in your mind?
- How do you tell if you have it?
- How do you facilitate it?
- What Exercises do you use to involve everyone.
- Do you have any stories or examples to share on this subject?
I'll send those of you who contribute the full collection
of responses I receive.
Finally, I'd like ot share that we have around 120 people
on this R&D team and I hope to continue to see this grow.
If you have any colleagues that would be interested in actively
contributing to this effort, please invite them to join this
team on the home page at www.FacilitatorU.com.
Thanks very much for your support!
Warmest regards,
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