Imagine yourself facilitating a major event featuring leading thinkers in your industry. You can lead discussions and bring out the best ideas from competing viewpoints. This course is delivered primarily through spoken lecture. Because the skill you are learning is speaking related, it only makes sense that you learn through speaking. The skill you will learn in this class is not primarily theoretical or academic.
In this How to Be a Facilitator course you will learn the following:
- The difference between being a good speaker and a good facilitator
- When and how to interrupt
- How not to speak too much or too little
- How to put the spotlight on other people ideas, not your own.
- How to introduce other people properly
It is a skill that requires physical habits. That is why you will be asked to take part in numerous exercises where you record yourself speaking on video, and then watching yourself. Learning presentation skills is like learning how to ride a bicycle. You simply have to do it numerous times and work past the wobbling and falling off parts until you get it right.
This course contain numerous video lectures plus several bonus books for your training library.
How long this course takes is up to you. The longest part of the course involves you speaking on video, critiquing yourself, and doing it over until you like it. But if you get to the point where you love how you look and sound when you present it will be well worth the time spent. And having this skill will save you time for all future presentations in your life.
You can begin improving your facilitation skills right now. You may have an opportunity to speak out as soon as tomorrow, so why waste another day worried that your facilitation and presentation skills are not up to high standards.
Project Description
Mediate Your Own Discussion on Video
If you are going to be a mediator, or want to facilitate a certain discussion, to be good at it, you need to do the right things.
An Event Facilitator can mean any number of things. You are moderating a debate, conducting a panel review, etc. You don't get to be an event facilitator without a lot of work. Get started by creating your own project to share with others to see how you are doing. Get started now.
For this course, you will need to record yourself speaking using a cellphone, camera, or webcam
When you complete this project, you should be able to:
- Conduct a facilitation
- Appear impartial in front of a group
- Speak with confidence
- Introduce other speakers and participants
