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Today’s guest, Jonas Rajanto’s life has changed over the last two weeks – he has been in demand, helping individuals and businesses pivot their offline offerings, online. Jonas is based in Finland and is affectionately known as “The Remote Meeting Guy”.  In this show we talk about energy required to facilitate online workshops and how […]

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*BONUS EPISODE* During these unprecedented Covid-19 times, I thought it would be helpful for listeners to lean into a conversation between their facilitation peers. With less than 24 hours notice, I invited Murray Guest and Steph Clarke onto a Zoom call, to have an open conversation on how we’re feeling, how we’re responding, and how […]

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In this episode I chat with Nicholas about how to strive to become the best version of yourself as a facilitator and how to make a difference in others lives. I think that’s one of our goals as facilitators: Create some type of transformation from when a participant enters our workshop. We want to spark […]

The post We all have a choice to get to the next level with Nicholas King (Episode 110) appeared first on First Time Facilitator.

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It’s been just over a year now since I stepped out as a solopreneur and I feel like I’m still trying to find that ultra niche topic for me to really double down on. I run workshops on so many things: leadership, team dynamics, negotiation, communication, Strengths – I’m still a generalist and everyday, I […]

The post Facilitating your passion pivot (and being brave to step into it) with Scott Armstrong (Episode 109) appeared first on First Time Facilitator.

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This is a surprise, pop-up show! I had so many of you asking questions about how to facilitate virtual meetings and webinars, so I’ve created a practical episode, on this very topic this week. It seems like there is more of a demand to do this well, particularly given world events like coronavirus, we’re seeing […]

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Charisma: An important topic that we haven’t explored enough on this show. How do you know when someone is charismatic?  What clues do you pick up? That’s a question I ask today’s guest, to get her thoughts on what it takes to be charismatic. And spoiler alert? The good news is, we can all get a little […]

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Leanne Hughes interviews #1 coaching thought leader and author, Michael Bungay-Stanier on the First Time Facilitator podcast.

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Here’s a question for you. Think about the last workshop you delivered. If you had to use a ratio, how much time did you spend speaking, explaining, emphasising vs the group speaking, sharing, contributing? That’s a great reflection question, isn’t it? I can’t claim it. It’s question that led today’s guest into becoming more curious […]

The post Legendary learning + the facilitation percentage game with Juan Daniel Sobrado (Episode 105) appeared first on First Time Facilitator.

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When do you stop calling yourself a First Time Facilitator? How do you know when you’ve graduated to just being a “Facilitator”? I’ve given a bit of consideration to this and put together my thoughts in this episode. I talk about some key things to stop, start (and continue) doing, for example: Stop apologising when […]

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With the inevitable changes happening all around us, teams need to build their capabilities so that they can successfully adopt new change projects and confidently adapt to their ever-changing environments.  Academic, change facilitator & tech startup founder, Lydia Moussa, combines knowledge and evidence from her PhD in change implementation research, with years of change facilitation […]

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