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LN Mastery Day: Facilitation

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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

Chair of the Learning Network and F ounder IDT, Tom McDowall will welcome you to our venue and set the scene for the day ahead.

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©

Speaker

Colin Smith

Founding Partner The Cognitive Union

11:00

Break

Let’s have a good break. Take the time to talk about what you just heard with other attendees.

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.

Speaker
 
Riccardo Ginevri 
 

12:15

Break

Let’s have a good break. Take the time to talk about what you just heard with other attendees.

12:30

Stories that Stick

Stories help facilitators enrich the learning experience. Some times we can extract stories from our audience, but other times we need to tell our own stories to help bring insights to life. The challenge is, we don’t always have the stories we need in the moment we need them. And even worse, sometimes the stories we do tell fall flat.
 
So in this session, Jamie Dixon, the author of “The Story Habit” will share a few simple habits to help you amass a wealth of stories for your story pool, and bring the details to life so they stick firmly in the audiences minds.
 
Speaker
 
Jamie Dixon
 
Founder The Story Habit
 

13:30

Lunch

Time for a break and some lunch! There are many great pubs, cafes and fast food locations in the area.

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.

Speaker
 
Donna Ward Higgs 
 
Director Learning Partner Solutions Limited
 

15:30

Break

Let’s have a good break. Take the time to talk about what you just heard with other attendees.

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

https://lightbulbmoment.info/

16:45

Reflection and Wrap Up

Oyindamola will take the participants in a reflective session following the workshop.

17:00

Exit Venue & Post Event Social

Oyindamola the Learning Network event Director will close the event.

Thank You to our sponsor and industry partner...

LN Contact:
(Oyindamola) 079 07540900

 

Venue details

Date & Time:

11 September 2024 @ 09:00 - 17:00 BST

Cost:

Free

Categories:

The Chaffron Centre

Milton Keynes College: Chaffron Way Campus, Leadenhall,
Milton Keynes, MK6 5LP. United Kingdom

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