Facilitation Articles

Making Learning Stick – design relevant and purposeful initiatives

After several decades working in adult and professional learning I’ve learned a few things my self. The following 12 tips can help you create meaningful and practical learning initiatives with messages that ‘stick’. Using these tips can truly create a transformational...
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What do we mean by courage: When have you been courageous as a facilitator?

You’ve got to get a challenging group loosened up. You’d planned an informal light-hearted ‘icebreaker’. Suddenly your confidence wanes, your centre dissolves, the uncertainty creates a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach. Do you go ahead with the activity or...
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The Power of Laughter in Facilitation: Seven Lessons

I was fortunate to hear Sophie Scott, director of the University College London’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience deliver a lecture on the neuroscience of laughter. Professor Scott, a self-acclaimed stand up scientist, presented an hilarious Seven Lessons of...
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The Roads to Transformation: Getting impact in the work place

As early as the mid 1800's Ebbinghouse and others demonstrated the fast pace of new learning loss. More recent studies along with anecdotal observations indicate that no matter how good your face to face learning initiative is in helping learning to 'stick', the...
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