Running Great Meetings and Workshops For Dummies

Chapter 9

Building Participants’ Knowledge and Practise

In This Chapter

Working with case studies

Using role play

Giving good feedback

Using video footage

This chapter mainly applies to workshops – and workshops in which you specifically want to accelerate and embed others’ learning. Role plays and case studies are two important tools that help you do that.

When you use either of these methodologies, you need to have fabulous facilitation skills, so you are at ease working with a larger cohort of people. That means feeling grounded and confident in your skill set.

The good news is that when you work with case studies and role plays, you extend and grow your expertise by leaps and bounds. This applies not only to your facilitation capability but also to the subject matter, too.

In fact, exactly the same applies to giving feedback as a result of a role play. You’ll quickly grow your self-awareness and ability as you learn from the scenario you use and role model the skill for participants to learn it. When you add video feedback in addition, you create rich and deep learning experiences ...