Greetings from Barcelona☀️where I am sending every ounce of positive energy to the people of Ukraine for a swift and peaceful resolution to the conflict.
Over the weekend I came across this insightful article by Sapiens’ author Yuval Noah Harari. He raises the question that I know a lot of us ask: “Is change possible?”.
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If you are joining for the first time, welcome to our deep dive into facilitation, learning, and how to live a creative life.
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🤔How do you know if you are a successful virtual facilitator?
Has this ever happened to you?
You deliver an online session and hit “end meeting”. And just like that, your group disappears into thin air 💭. You are alone at your desk left wondering, “What did I do well? What can I do better”. These are questions I ask myself after each session I lead.
It’s easy not to know.
You don’t always get feedback. And excellence in facilitation is hard to measure. Partly because facilitation draws on so many interconnected skills. There are very few analytics, benchmarks, and KPIs for facilitation. Even fewer for virtual facilitation.
But there are ways to know if you are on the right track.
And when you have an understanding of how to assess yourself, you feel more confident in what you are doing well and what you can do better.
💭How do you know if you are successful?
That’s our Quest for this week🔎
👉4 Ways to Know If You Are a Successful Facilitator
👉How to Accelerate Learning Using Self Assessment
👉The Donner-Kruger Effect
📢First an important announcement
👉There is just one week to go before registration closes for the Breakthrough Facilitation course and for you to sharpen your virtual facilitation skills. For more details and to register check out the updated course page 👉 here.
📅Join me for a free live demo of the course tomorrow Tuesday, March 1 @5pm CET and get your questions answered (you’ll also receive a bonus resource Facilitation Pro Tips Sheet). Register 👉 here. (P.S. Can’t make it? Sign up and you’ll get the replay.)
🎯4 Ways You’ll Know When You’ve Become a Successful Virtual Facilitator
An atomic essay I published on Twitter a few weeks ago with 4 benchmarks of successful online facilitation.
Most indicators of successful facilitation focus on your capacities as a facilitator like active listening and asking questions.
But focusing on traits alone is only part of the story. Successful facilitation also depends on your ability to design an experience, prepare your session, and connect your group.
What benchmarks do you use? Join the conversation on Twitter and on LinkedIn.
 Gwyn Wansbrough 🚢 January 30th 2022 2 Retweets 26 Likes |
🕸️How To Accelerate Learning Using Self-assessment – Meet MySnapshot
Full transparency here: I am an affiliate of MySnapshot which gives you £50 off and that gives me a financial benefit. It’s the only affiliate link I have because I believe so much in the impact it makes. Read on…
One of the reasons that it is difficult to learn and master a skill like facilitation is that what performance looks like at different stages of mastery isn’t clearly laid out.
That’s why I was excited to meet Charlotte Crowther, founder of MySnapshot. (And Quest reader hi Charlotte👋:) I worked with Charlotte to create a MySnapshot tool for Breakthrough Facilitation.
- She helped me design a model for learning virtual facilitation
- We broke down each skill into tiny building blocks.
- From there she designed a self-assessment tool for students in the course.
👉It gave me a framework for designing the course curriculum. I could focus the content on what learners needed to know to improve their virtual facilitation skills. I wasted less time.
👉It gave course participants a personalized roadmap for learning. It gave them information on how to best focus their learning during and after the course. The effect was motivating and empowering.
👉It gave everyone data-rich with insights on how to do better. Students know how to continue developing skills. I know how to improve the course.
Here’s what one BF alumni said when she got her final progress report:
“I didn’t know what I didn’t know when I started. With MySnapshot, I realized how far I have come in just one month.”
If you are interested in self-assessment and lifelong learning, sign up for Charlotte’s free weekly newsletter Meta Learning. Or contact her at charlotte@mysnapshot.co. If you want to really dive into student self-assessment, read this article.
✍️Sketchnote of the Week
 Jorge | visual ideas February 5th 2022 22 Retweets 180 Likes |
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