Chapter 6: Facilitation Techniques

What’s Inside This Chapter

In this chapter, you’ll learn:

• How to base learning activities on the learners’ knowledge and skill level

• Techniques that encourage engagement and support facilitation

• Facilitation tips that can be used in any situation.

Being a facilitator means making sure all important points are brought out, giving everyone a chance to contribute and participate, and checking that everything is going well for the participants. In other words, being a facilitator means making learning happen. It also means that you don’t have to be the one doing all of the talking—as a matter of fact, the more you create opportunity for the participants to do the talking, the more they will make your points for you, and the more engaged they will be. There are multiple considerations that will guide you into facilitating at the appropriate level of engagement.