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APRIL 8, 2020

See the small group exercises timing charts in this document ). If participants are working through an exercise or set of discussion questions, create a google document with your prompts and include space for taking notes. 1-2-4-All: This facilitation process comes from Liberating Structures. Reflection & Takeaways.

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Exercise Reflection Google Consultant 177

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JULY 25, 2017

Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer? I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Here’s what I learned.

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Participatory Facilitation Technique Asia 79

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JULY 31, 2013

I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire. This week was the third face-to-face meeting I’ve helped design and facilitate. Source: Spitfire Twitter Feed.

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Reflection Action Learning Change 97

.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Launch the Conversation Sometimes an outside facilitator can move the group forward more quickly. Discussions about best practices, strategic planning sessions, or board development exercises can launch conversations about how and when to evaluate the board’s performance. This exercise takes a little practice.

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Evaluation Government Director Facilitation 193

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! But disciplining yourself to reflect afterwards always gives the reward of improvement. Formative Evaluation.

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Evaluation Training Train Tips 131

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MARCH 11, 2024

There are role-playing exercises, and the final activity is a cultural fit session. Using Suzanne Bell’s example, it can be helpful to consider both the technical and psychosocial roles that will facilitate the work. Our interview process is rigorous. There are many different instruments to choose from.

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Team Build Interview Skills 221

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I decided to spend a little bit time reflecting on the diagram and pull out some tips for re-learning focus: 1.) Manage Your Attention, Not Just Your Time: Don’t just create a to do list, lay it out on daily and weekly schedule, breaking down key tasks of the project to chunks.

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Content Tips Help Exercise 139

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JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 119

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JULY 31, 2017

This post shares a useful exercise for your digital team to reflect on what not to do for your digital strategy! Strategy as We-Care: An Exercise – guest post by Miriam Brosseau, Director of Engagement, See3 Communications. Organizational self-care needs a strategy, as we all learned in “ The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit.”

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Exercise Strategy Storytelling Digital 68

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

Last week I was lucky enough to facilitate a mini-innovation lab for 60 community foundation program officers at the first meeting of ProNet during the Council on Foundations conference in Cleveland, Ohio that celebrated 100 years of community philanthropy.

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Foundation Design Community Work 104

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MAY 29, 2023

An expert facilitator will introduce the level of introspection needed to encourage empathy and insight. It’s an exercise that will provide the opportunity to explore lessons learned in training and reflect on how they impact real-life situations. Your committee should reflect the diversity that they are assigned to propagate.

Associations 221

Associations Reflection Leadership Policy 221

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

” I attended a fantastic workshop facilitated by Michelle Gislason , Senior Project Director, CompassPoint, called “ How to Fail Spectacularly (and What You Can Learn from It) ” Here’s a few key takeaways and resources. The exercise is based on failfare.

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Exercise NGO Facilitation Game 128

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APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. It is a well known fact that exercise helps you think better. (And My last deep dive into social media and health care was when I delivered this keynote for a health care organization so this was an opportunity to see how the field has progressed.

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Social Media Reflection Leadership Media 97

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

Learning Theory 139

Learning Theory Learning Brain Exercise 139

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APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 113

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MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Most of the training days took place in rural Rwanda on Lake Muhazi – which was a beautiful place. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 116

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JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. I used this a variety of ways: whiteboard interactive lecture and brainstorm; sticky note exercise; and student work space.

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Training Train Design Classroom 126

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MAY 17, 2011

Since the NTEN Academy is a peer exchange program, I did more than simply chunk content and encourage interaction through polls, the backchannel chat, and people talking on the phone line every 12 minutes. I set up opportunities for people to apply what they just heard through reflective questions.

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Design Effective Experiment Learning 109

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MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. This post is #2 in a series I’ll be publishing on virtual meeting facilitation. The first post was an overview of 9 virtual facilitation tips. Or the last photo in their phone.

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Virtual Facilitation Exercise Fun 132

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AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

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Facilitation Interaction Reflection Design 50

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MARCH 25, 2014

Each of us took on a different aspect of nonprofit technology design and incorporated some interactive exercises. As one of my great teachers said, ”You are not good at what you do unless you are always learning and reflecting on your practice.” ” In that spirit, a few thoughts.

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Training Train Reflection Resource 101

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APRIL 4, 2010

The space was large enough so we could have small group tables, space for food, and space to do full group and small group moving around exercises. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. I do a lot of small group and share pair exercises.

Social Media 95

Social Media Reflection Learning Social 95

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JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” Next Janet shared examples of empowering questions that help facilitate listening and coaching.

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Reflection Arts Exercise Facilitation 66

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MARCH 12, 2018

Last month I was lucky enough to run into Maia Duerr who participated in Wake’s Tech2EmpowerUSA at a workshop I was facilitating on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit. Maia Duerr recently published a book called “ Work that Matters: Create a Livelihood that Reflects Your Core Intention.”

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Review Work Exercise Reflection 93

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OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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Professional Network Learning Lebanon 102

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JUNE 22, 2017

1: Make Time Everyday for Reflection: Keep a Journal. The first step is self-awareness and that happens through tracking and observing yourself in work situations that trigger stress. One way to do this is to build in some reflection time into your day and maintain a journal. Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush.

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Professional Management Journal Reflection 116

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I also had the opportunity to facilitate a large group session about whether CEOs should use social media or not and attended a tweet up with David Meerman Scott. You can find my materials and slides on the workshop wiki - CSR and NGO workshops, but always like to do a reflective wrap up post. No wonder I am still tired!

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India NGO Social Media Reflection 97

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

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Activities Activism Active Integration 107

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DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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Tunisia Facilitation New Zealand Technique 127

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JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch. It is also important to target the right level of authority. Development.

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 113

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MAY 20, 2013

I couldn’t have asked for a more authentic, culturally appropriate start to a workshop. The spiritual nature of the welcoming ceremony set the tone for a day of reflective practice for participants. When learners enter the room, I ask them to reflect on their “burning question” or why did they want to take this workshop.

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New Zealand Arts Australia Open 97

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JANUARY 25, 2011

This got my attention because I was designing a Networked Nonprofit workshop for E-Mediat and will incorporate a network mapping exercise. Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. Share your map with other groups doing the exercise.

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Network Map Exercise Nonprofit 127

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

After a welcome by Kathleen Enright, President and CEO of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Diana Scearce, Monitor Institute was our facilitator. She also traced the history of nonprofit capacity building field and how the unit of analysis needs to change – from that of organizations to networks.

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Network Hawaii Exercise Stream 94

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MARCH 22, 2013

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week. I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers.

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Teach Instructional Design Learning Instruction 102

Candid

JANUARY 10, 2024

It’s about reimagining systems, facilitating change, and co-creating a better future. By contrast, positive emotions and experiences broaden our perspectives and build up our mental resources, facilitating increased innovation, social connection, and solutions. This exercise is powerful for two reasons.

Celebrate 98

Celebrate Movie Social Exercise 98

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JANUARY 30, 2010

It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. . Strategy is analytical, reflective, and thinking - not much action. David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here. Tactics is doing, moving, and acting.

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Social Media Training Train Media 95

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JANUARY 3, 2012

I want to sustain that focus throughout the year and apply to what I do — from content curation to blogging to facilitating trainings and developing curriculum. Be more of a focusing lens versus a fire hydrant. I will be designing and facilitating capacity building programs in the Middle East, Africa, and India.

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Reflection Technique Journal Teach 104