In this First Time Facilitator podcast episode, facilitator, entrepreneur and inventor Cherelle Witney shares how a diverse career spanning legal, health and tourism has helped her confidently deliver workshops to thousands of participants.

In this episode you’ll learn:

How to create a safe environment (hint: It’s all about being yourself)

Why you only have three minutes to create a trusting space with your group

Why it’s important to set ground rules for the workshop

Why you need a Mary Poppins bag full of stuff

The #1 nightmare of all facilitators (and how to manage it)

About our guest

Cherelle Witney is the Founder of LIFT Performance Solutions, Leadership trainer and coach.

She believes that being curious to learn and willing to welcome shared learning keeps us positively energised & connected throughout our work and our life.  Her aim is to be a facilitator that inspires her participants with diverse real experience & insights that makes learning practical and fun!

On the Belbin profile she’s a Specialist, Plant, Shaper which means she likes detail, to be up to date with facts, theories and practices. loves ideas, innovative thinking and “what if….” questions.

Over the last 18+ years, her career has included work as a senior manager & leader, internal trainer/facilitator and professional coach in a variety of private and public organisations with 7 years in public health and 6 years in law.

Her facilitation work uses a variety of tools from brainstorming to framing to open space and journey maps to assist strategic planning processes, creation of organisational learning & development plans, effective process improvement pathways and change engagement strategies in organisations of 12 to 1200 people.

Resources

Cherelle’s company Lift Performance Solutions

* Belbin profiles

Tricky Treats

Books:

The Other “F” Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work

Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams: How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

The Zen Of Groups

Ordinary Meetings DON’T Interest Me!: What is Facilitation? (Creative Group Leadership Book 1)

Transcript

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