1Facilitation Mistakes
Great facilitators are a wonder to watch. They keep a meeting or training event lively and productive even as they effortlessly fend off efforts from participants to take over the meeting, derail the positive mood, or otherwise disrupt a successful event. You may have thought to yourself, "How do they do this? I am actually enjoying this meeting!"
Although this chapter does not promise to teach you how you can develop into a world-class professional facilitator, it does reveal 21 of the most common mistakes that most experienced facilitators and trainers would agree could sink any meeting or event no matter how well it is going.
These mistakes span the facilitation blooper landscape from using inappropriate humor to ignoring ...
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