Ever had to facilitate a strategic or planning session, or important meeting, and wanted some fresh ideas on how to do it, and how to make that agenda come to life?

I recently had a fantastic opportunity to facilitate a three day annual planning meeting.  As part of my preparation, I discovered some interesting tools (and received some really useful advice), that I think listeners of the First Time Facilitator podcast could really benefit hearing about.

On that note, I was thinking of creating some kind of peer-support group for First Time Facilitators, maybe a closed Facebook group, where we can start sharing these tools & getting support from each other. If that’s something you’d be interested in, let me know – you can email me – [email protected], or add me on LinkedIn. I think it would be really great to start leveraging the activities we’re doing around the world, and supporting each other.

In this episode you’ll learn:

* An interesting, adventurous way to present an agenda and set expectations

* A tool you can use if the right level of detail isn’t being addressed in a meeting

* Some general facilitation advice I received from two experts

Resources mentioned in this episode:

* Gamestorming: A toolkit for innovators, rule-breakers and changemakers

* Hero’s Journey agenda (along with the video explanation)

* Altitude 

About your host

Leanne Hughes is the host of the First Time Facilitator podcast and is based in Brisbane, Australia. She works in the field of Organisational Development. She loves to shake up expectations and create unpredictable experiences and brings over 12 years’ of experience across a variety of industries including mining, tourism, and vocational education and training and believes anyone can develop the skills to deliver engaging group workshops.

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Episode transcript

View the First Time Facilitator podcast transcript of Episode 29.