Are you looking to improve on your facilitation skills?
Join us to enhance your facilitation skills! Learn how to build self-confidence, engage and control the room, use games and activities, master virtual facilitation, and more.
09:45
Welcome, Venue Notices, and Expectations
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10:00
From Ice-breakers to complex adaptive systems - Facilitating games and activities in learning
According to Seymour Epstein’s cognitive experiential self-theory (CEST), any learning is more effective when paired with experiential activities like participating in activities and games. In fact, there’s tons of learning theory purporting the benefits of experiential elements in any kind of learning – we learn more by doing, practicing, experiencing, and so on (and it’s fun too, right?).
In this session, we’ll take you on a whistle stop tour of the various games/activities/tools facilitators can leverage with this in mind. From Ice-breakers to complex adaptive systems… and you might even get to play with some LEGO© SERIOUS PLAY©
11:00
Break
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11:15
Fake it ‘til you make it- the art of projecting confidence
Join storytelling coach Riccardo Ginevri and discover how to use your voice and body language to convey the best thing a presenter can have – confidence.
He’ll cover what to do in person – whether in a meeting room, a coffee shop or on stage – as well as virtual presentation skills – how to set up your camera, lights and microphones, what to wear and what to have behind you. We’ll even dig into stage fright, why it happens and what you can do about it. This session is packed full of practical advice and useful tips.
12:15
Break
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12:30
Stories that Stick
13:30
Lunch
Time for a break and some lunch! There are many great pubs, cafes and fast food locations in the area.
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14:30
Leading the Room
In this practical and interactive session we will work together to explore the challenges of engaging and controlling the room. We will explore the common challenges faced and consider how behaviours communicate needs for our participants. Using this insight we will consider ways to plan, prepare and manage in the moment.
Learning outcomes:
*Create an effective group working agreement that supports you and your participants to have a productive session.
*Explore common challenges experienced in engaging and controlling the room.
*Consider the underlying human needs and how these may drive behaviours in the room.
*Share ideas, tools and techniques for managing the challenges of engaging and controlling the room.
15:30
Break
Let’s have a good break. Take the time to talk about what you just heard with other attendees.
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15:45
Virtual Facilitation
Since the global pandemic, everyone can deliver virtual training, right? Everyone can make it engaging, interactive, hit all the learning outcomes in the allocated time, drive the technology and not be flustered, right? We know a lot of people can, but we also know that a lot of people are muddling through and some support, development and working through those tricky topics will help your sessions be something people really enjoy, that you deliver with confidence and that really helps the organisation aims too.
Jo Cook has specialised in live online learning since 2013 and brings a breadth and depth of knowledge to this session, along with a sprinkle of fun, to make sure you get your virtual learning development needs sorted!
During the session we will tackle:
* Your challenges of virtual delivery and design –
*What it is that saps your confidence –
*Ways to get people involved in the session, with technique and process details
*Approaches attitude to virtual that help you, your colleagues and your participants
Speaker
Jo Cook
Virtual Classroom and Webinar Expert, Director Lightbulb Moment Limited
16:45
Reflection and Wrap Up
An opportunity to reflect on the day and set yourself some clear next steps.
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17:00
Exit Venue & Post Event Social
Oyindamola the Learning Network event Director will close the event.
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LN Contact:
(Oyindamola) 079 07540900