Marko Rillo

Hi Marko,
To be honest, I never do the full two hours, but to give you an idea about how the time can be allocated.

Construction:
Instructions 1 minute + building 3 minutes + debrief 2 minutes + deconstructing models 1 minute = 8 minutes

Metaphor:
Instructions 2 minutes, building 10 minutes, explaining 10 minutes, debrief 2 minutes +…[Read more]

Come sempre il confronto ci aiuta a trovare soluzioni originali. Sono d’accordo con quanto scrive Massimo Mercuri. Pur non trovando l’idea di un albo, intesa come ordine, utile, l’idea di un album, inteso come quelli dei college americani che vediamo spesso nei film e nelle serie, è un’ottima idea. In fondo la cosa più vicina a questo album è pr…[Read more]

Hi Eli,

thanks for your comments, they are all so very valuable. I’ll make sure to take into account your suggestions for my next workshop.

Thanks again Eli…

Hi Gabriel,

Thanks for posting your experiences. Everyone should read your story.

I’m surprised that you recommend an hour skill-building. I’m sure I was told in training that it should be 2 hours!

Handling the talkative ones is just part of the job of being a facilitator. Doing the skills building right won’t get your participants obeying…[Read more]

Thanks very much Mark. I have seen the 1000 participant post, but not yours. 3 minutes, vision for a country – brilliant!

The conference I’m designing might begin by asking people to identify the challenges their industry faces. Capturing answers on gridcards (my version of post its…[Read more]

Prima di tutto credo che bisogna essere prima facilitatori, poi imparare il metodo, per avere risultati di impatto per il cliente.
Un facilitatore professionale no si mette a vendere un metodo solo per dire che lo fa. In quel caso si certifica.

Peró …. e qualcuno lo deve dire un “peró” … forse c’é un valore a mantenere un album.

Penso al…[Read more]

Hi Luc

Just a quick comment from me. People don’t want LSP.

They also don’t want a meeting, workshop or awayday.

They want an outcome.

Focus discussion on understanding the outcome they desire, then once thats clear establish what tools, methods or processes are suitable for helping them get the outcome they desire.

I find people seem to value…[Read more]

Essere certificati non è necessario, ma solo consigliato. Un facilitatore certificato ha un’etica e una professionalità che emergono alla lunga. Essere certificati non implica che si è buoni facilitatori tout-court. Non credo serva un ordine né tanto meno un’autorità garante. Credo che debba essere il “mercato” (inteso come competizione tra migl…[Read more]

Essere certificati non è necessario, ma solo consigliato. Un facilitatore certificato ha un’etica e una professionalità che emerge alla lunga. Essere certificati non implica che si è buoni facilitatori tout-court. Non credo serva un ordine né tanto meno un’autorità garante. Credo che debba essere il “mercato” (inteso come competizione tra migl…[Read more]

Balint, I think we all understand the challenge; we have all met people who are shortsighted and don’t want to invest. Believe me, Eastern Europe does not have a monopoly on shortsightedness. Wall Street in New York has proven time and again that it cannot see beyond the end of its next 3-month nose. So these are the people whose careers are going…[Read more]

Luc, I find terms like C-level quite confusing; still here’s a list of CAPRESE LSP references, where senior management have been involved (I’ll leave it to you to decide whether VP R&D EMEA in Honeywell ACS who reports to an Executive VP is senior or junior to VP R&D Aerolia who reports directly to a…[Read more]

I cold heartedly agree with Eli, don’t “fall into the numbers trap”. The way I work around this is by bringing up all the workshops I have conducted in the past, with or without LSP. LSP is a tool, and a great one… but the secret is the facilitator. Also depending on the type of clients you are dealing with, I learned so far that some will catch…[Read more]