WorkshopBank | Nick Martin
Deep dives on workshop facilitation, team development, and the craft behind group sessions that actually change behaviour.
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How to Co-Facilitate Without Talking Over Each Other (opens the original)
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“Over to you.”Your co-facilitator looks down at their notes, turns a page, looks back up.“Thanks. So, um. Where were we?”The room watches. The energy you built in the last section drains away in thirty seconds, and takes the next ten minutes to get it back.<div class="image2
8 Facilitation Rules Worth Unlearning (Especially If You're Good At This) (opens the original)
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Somebody taught you a rule as a beginner facilitator. It worked and you ran it for years. The better you got at running it, the less reason you had to question it.The eight myths below were all solid advice once. If you’re doing them, several are costing you now. <div class="image2-ins
One Outcome Per Hour: How to Design Any Workshop in 45 Minutes (opens the original)
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You can spend three days on a two-hour workshop and still watch half of it miss.The slides get tweaked. The activities get shuffled. The timing gets argued over.Then the day comes and the room drifts anyway.I used to think the answer was more preparation. One more evening, a tighter deck and it would land. It never did.All that prep was pointed at nothing in particular. I was assembling good activities and hoping they’d add up to something.One Outcome Per Hour gives you the thing to aim at. <a c
Energisers Without the Cringe (And With a Point) (opens the original)
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You’ve watched an energiser die. Everyone up for a Mexican wave. Turn to your neighbour and pay them a compliment. Ten star jumps to shake off the afternoon. The room goes along with it, because people are polite, but they take what comes next less seriously as a result.Your participants are professionals. They didn’t give up a day of work to do star jumps. When an energiser is energy for its own sake, they feel it, and the goodwill you spend is hard to get back.An energiser has two jobs. Reset
Designing Workshops for Introverts (opens the original)
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You ask the room a question. Three hands go up. The same three as last time. You take their answers, the conversation moves on, and you tell yourself the room was engaged.Half of it wasn’t. Your format only rewarded the people willing to say it out loud, fast, in front of everyone.<div class="image2
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