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The Art of Facilitating Meetings with Sticky Notes

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Mine includes markers , sticky notes , index cards, and flip chart paper. Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. What’s in your facilitation toolkit? But wait, paper??? And, I’m not alone. Project Planning: Includes two methods, one for agile planning and the other for complex projects.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

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If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. Be a participant in other people’s training sessions.

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Methods for Facilitating Innovation in Nonprofits

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We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. A frequent question Peter is asked about how an organization can become more innovative. “What are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours? Bull’s Eye.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Digital Nonprofit: A Participatory Workshop

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Opening Exercise. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. We decided to use an understanding exercise, a SWOT analysis related to the topics. Learning More.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

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It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Incorporating Movement Into Icebreakers and Small Group Exercises. What I Was Inspired To Adapt.

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Playing the Social Media Game with 100 Bay Area Nonprofits

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One of the things that is essential to good instruction (or presentation) is knowing your audience. It's a shift from sage on the stage instruction to honoring the learners for what they know. I also created a stand up, sit down exercise. The wiki becomes an electronic flip chart and resource collector.

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Reflections on the Meyer Memorial Trust Workshop

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What I'm after are ways to tweak the design to improve learning and to improve instructional practice. The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. What worked? What didn't? Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations. The venue, the IRDC , was wonderful place.