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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

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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. Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach?

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

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Just A Little Content To Get Started . There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. It could be 100% in that participants provide the content by connecting with others and sharing experience and knowledge. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Finding Inspiration and New Ideas for Facilitation Techniques

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Part of delivering instruction is being a good facilitation of people’s learning and there is no better way to learn how to improve your own technique than watching world class facilitators in action. I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned.

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How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training: NTC 2016 Session

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Whether you are facilitating a session with your board, staff, or hundreds of folks in a room, you’ll find ways to design instructional content that interests, engages, and inspires action. Why Extreme Content Delivery Does Not Equal Learning. Group Polling Techniques and Tools. Facilitation Methods and Techniques.

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Can Stories Be Data?

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I like to use a combined method. Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. The above shows the methods. Perhaps we are confusing qualitative data with gut decisions ? What do you think?

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Can Stories Be Data?

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I like to use a combined method. Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation , about participatory learning agendas. Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change.

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The Art of Facilitating Virtual Meetings with Sticky Notes

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I also wanted to experiment with translating some facilitation techniques I use for face-to-face meetings (like sticky note facilitation ) to virtual meetings. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. It is between the two methods. Design must comes first. Finally, you identify next steps and follow up.