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The world is waking up to the power of facilitation. Whether hosting a workshop, hosting more engaged meetings, or leading productive teams - this podcast is for everyone who works with groups and thrives to bring the best out of them. Join us weekly as Dr. Hadnes invites facilitators, trainers, and coaches to share their insights and stories from the facilitation frontlines. These candid long-form conversations aim to demystify facilitation, making it accessible to everyone interested in mastering the art of group collaboration. Gain valuable tips and insights from leading experts, and discover the magic ingredients behind successful workshops. Plus, enjoy a complimentary 1-page summary of each episode to quickly integrate key learnings into your practice. Visit workshops.work/podcast for more.

workshops work Dr Myriam Hadnes

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The world is waking up to the power of facilitation. Whether hosting a workshop, hosting more engaged meetings, or leading productive teams - this podcast is for everyone who works with groups and thrives to bring the best out of them. Join us weekly as Dr. Hadnes invites facilitators, trainers, and coaches to share their insights and stories from the facilitation frontlines. These candid long-form conversations aim to demystify facilitation, making it accessible to everyone interested in mastering the art of group collaboration. Gain valuable tips and insights from leading experts, and discover the magic ingredients behind successful workshops. Plus, enjoy a complimentary 1-page summary of each episode to quickly integrate key learnings into your practice. Visit workshops.work/podcast for more.

    262 - Navigating the Facilitation Landscape with Community Perspectives

    262 - Navigating the Facilitation Landscape with Community Perspectives

    Earlier this year, SessionLab published the second edition of their State of Facilitation report, surveying the ever-evolving landscape of our profession. 93 countries, 372 hours spent answering the survey and a generous 975 respondents later, and the NeverDoneBefore community joins together with the SessionLab community to put the 2024 report findings under a facilitation magnifying glass in our very first fishbowl conversation!
    Together, we dissect three juicy and provocative, yet important questions: Do accreditations, or a lack of, harm or expand our profession? Do facilitators hide behind their tools? And how valuable is community in our world? Episode 262 is a special one, join us!
    Find out about:
    Key findings from the State of Facilitation 2024 reportThe presence, weight and validity of accreditations in facilitation - can we learn on the job or do we require a professional certification?The role that tools play when facilitating small vs. large groups and how they can help us to navigate conflictWhether digitally-assisted facilitation is transforming the face of the profession – for the better or worseAn exploration into how facilitators continue to learnDon’t miss the next episode: subscribe to the show with your favourite podcast player.
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    • 1 hr 11 min
    261 - The Unseen Dynamics of Effective Facilitation with Tanja Murphy-Ilibasic

    261 - The Unseen Dynamics of Effective Facilitation with Tanja Murphy-Ilibasic

    From her debut in episode 53, to episode 261 many years later, my guest this week Tanja Murphy-Ilibasic makes her return to the podcast this week! Tanja is a corporate coach, facilitator and communications specialist - and a master at manifesting potential.
    But potential, the capacity for future success, is only possible with the right conditions at play and the energy to propel it forward. We unravel the dynamics of effective facilitation, the necessary conditions and questions we must ask, to design workshops that will outlive the confines of the workshop walls. After all, it is our duty to give the group the wings to make their potential possible – otherwise, we fail not only the group, but our entire profession.
    Join us for learnings from workshop failures, the art of the gradually-invisible facilitator, the nuances of equal voice, and the importance of withholding our opinion.
    Find out about:
    How to find the right approach for the best outcome and collaborationNavigating the client conversations needed for success; from budget availability, to motivations and post-workshop supportWhy you shouldn’t go into a collaboration with assumptions or predefined expectationsHow to physically manoeuvre a space so that the group is given agencyWhy facilitators should rarely disclose their own opinion to avoid being a guiding voice that would anchor the groupHow to acknowledge equal voice in a group, giving recognition to quick and slow thinkersDon’t miss the next episode: subscribe to the show with your favourite podcast player.
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    • 1 hr 5 min
    260 - Exploring the Art of Invisible Facilitation with Charles-Louis de Maere

    260 - Exploring the Art of Invisible Facilitation with Charles-Louis de Maere

    The act of naming something gives it presence, it makes it visible. So how then, do we navigate something as infinite and nameworthy as facilitation, when invisibility is so often its modus operandi?
    Scrum-master, agile-coach and chief explorer of Exploration Labs, Charles-Louis de Maere joins me this week for a juicy, macro-to-micro exploration into facilitation as we toy with this question. We discuss the power of surrender: why stepping back, ditching the instructions, and detaching ourselves from the rigidity of the process, can help us to co-create a playground that prioritises the outcome.
    We cover a lot of terrain in this episode! From the deeper purpose of the facilitator, to practical try-it-yourself exercises, facilitating in different cultures, and why we can sometimes be magicians in disguise…
    Find out about:
    Why the art of invisible facilitation abandons agendas in favour of co-designing towards a shared outcomeWhy the strongest tool in our toolbox is the question, and why vague questionsThe power of playing with ambiguityA lack of instructions can facilitate trust in a group through the discomfort that emergesFinding the right level of appropriateness for exchanges in different culturesHow to navigate the wants and needs of the group, with the expectations of the hiring clientDon’t miss the next episode: subscribe to the show with your favourite podcast player.
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    • 1 hr 15 min
    259 - Leading with a Rainbow Lens: Enhancing Inclusive Leadership Practices with Dr Steve Yacovelli

    259 - Leading with a Rainbow Lens: Enhancing Inclusive Leadership Practices with Dr Steve Yacovelli

    This week we take a look through the iridescent, rainbow lens of leadership, with Dr Steve Yacovelli, aka ‘The Gay Leadership Dude™’, to ask the question: what does it mean to be a truly inclusive leader?
    Well beyond the DEI acronym and its all too often tick-box allyship mentality, we explore the essence of inclusive leadership and what every impactful leader can learn from the six competencies that naturally show up in the LGBTQ+ community: being authentic, leading with courage, having empathy, effective communication, building relationships, and influencing organisational culture.
    We talk all things pronouns, bringing your full self to work, managing your unconscious bias, and finally, we pull at the seams of diversity, to reveal a single beautiful truth: every single human on this planet is diverse!
    Find out about:
    Learnings from Steve’s 25 years in the leadership, development, change management, and diversity and inclusion consulting spaceWhat it means to lead with a Pride Leadership mindsetWhy inclusive leadership must go beyond the superficial celebration of the DEI acronym to foster belonging for allThe five dimensions of diversity and what it means for leadershipWhy a feedback-rich culture is critical to creating belonging in the workplaceWhy learning in a group of 3 can have greater success than learning in pairsDon’t miss the next episode: subscribe to the show with your favourite podcast player.
    And download the free 1-page summary, so you can always have the key points of this episode to hand.
    Put the episode's best takeaways into practice with Skillding. Visit skillding.com/workshop to begin your journey from learning to doing. Track your progress as you hone your new skills. Start now!
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    • 1 hr 8 min
    258 - Community-based Education Supporting Community-based Enterprise with Colonel Walter Holmes

    258 - Community-based Education Supporting Community-based Enterprise with Colonel Walter Holmes

    Can I get your attention? Because this week, I have none other than Colonel Walt Holmes with me on the show, Air Force Commander, author, and master facilitator of community-based education.
    Walt has been helping individuals to progress through the ranks of military units – and of life – since the 1999s, designing the systems for success in both soldiers and students. His 5 levels of achievement offers a unique gamified approach to change: encouraging meaningful metric-based accountability, collaboration and autonomy in his squadron of students. His belief: if we can impact someone’s behaviour, we can change their attitude.
    Walt’s passion is undeniable - it radiates through the airwaves of our conversation and I’m positive you will feel it too! Tune in to learn all about community, attitude, behaviour and the cogs of organisational change.


    Find out about:
    Learnings from Walt’s military career as a cultural change facilitatorWhat it takes to change an entire organisation through the introduction of structure, autonomy and collaborationWhy the success to community-based education lies in a marriage of individual outcomes and metricsThe inner-workings of community models: why people taking ownership creates a system that is self-enforcingWhat Walt’s book ‘Lead From The Middle, Lead From Behind’ can teach us about leading groups in disarray

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    • 1 hr 10 min
    257 - Exploring the Ethical Lines between Facilitation and Consulting with Benjamin Taylor

    257 - Exploring the Ethical Lines between Facilitation and Consulting with Benjamin Taylor

    Dominant, supportive. Immediate value, gradual value. Explicit, implicit. Scarcity, abundance. Consultant, Facilitator.
    It might be tempting to view the roles of a consultant, and that of a facilitator, through these opposing dichotomies, but nothing is ever really that black and white. And as Benjamin Taylor and I speak about this week, there’s a great deal to be learnt from the intersection of the two!
    This episode takes a look at facilitation through the meta-lens; from afar, we inspect it as a movement and dig up some uncomfortable clichéd truths, and up-close, we unravel the intricacies of manipulation, shallow vs deep facilitation, and the most daring tool of all in our toolkit.
    Find out about:
    Where facilitation shows up in consulting and the interplay between the two disciplinesWhat Benjamin has learnt from decades spent as a consultant in the public sectorThe distinction between shallow and deep facilitation and why it is critical for an effective outcomeWhy the key to impactful facilitation lies in fostering an environment of connection, collaboration and empowering each participant’s strengthsWhy consultants must resist the urge to prove instant value; instead taking a more measured, facilitative approach to collaborationDon’t miss the next episode: subscribe to the show with your favourite podcast player.
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    • 58 min

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Every single episode is filled with incredible nuggets that I find myself applying immediately, both practically in my day-to-day work as well as sharing with all my colleagues. Not only will the insights from the interviews make you a better facilitator, but also a more empathetic leader! I recommend this podcast to everyone I know.

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