Your lesson and example on Facilitation

Read chapter 4 of THE SOLUTION PATH (TSP) on Facilitation in its entirety. Then choose your top lesson on this chapter and post it here: each lesson must have a title, the lesson, and an example (from the TSP book, your personal or professional life, or fictitious but fully credible).

To reiterate from before, here is some examples that works:

example 1

Title: Brainstorming and Prioritizing

Lesson: When your group brainstorm and prioritize; new ideas are generated from everyone and then narrowed down to an agreed-upon idea from the group, creating a rich dialogue.

Example: A group is created among a classroom of college students to solve an equation. As there are five students in this group, they decide to brainstorm and begin throwing out ideas to solve it. Getting new information from everyone in the group, they narrow down to a solution prioritizing the essential concepts the group has chosen themselves. Creating an environment of new perspectives and ideas, the students can now agree on one idea to solve the equation as a solid group.

example 2

Title: Positive thinking and solutions

Lesson: When you think positively, you develop solutions for your problems

Example: Delores, the owner of Mailing House, lost a major client. She chose to think positively about her challenge and focused on creating new solutions with her team. They developed and implemented a winning solution and turned the situation around: they acquired several new clients.

example 3

Title: Listening Actively

Lesson: When you listen fully to what the speakers are saying, they feel encourage and safe to share their truthful feelings.

Example: Angel is a salesperson working for a tooling company, he goes to a manufacturing shop where Jose the programmer has trouble running a machine. Angel has a face to face conversation with Jose and other workers where he shows great care for what they are saying. Jose and his coworkers feel encourage that Angel listens to their issues with the machine without judgment. Angel understood their situation after he sincerely listened to their problems and he was able to provide them with the correct tools to efficiently run the machine. Thanks to Angels great listening skills he was able to make his customers happy who will continue to buy from him.

Note that your example must be different than the one I offered here or you will lose all the points on this discussion.

Important! Your lessons MUST be:

• Simple points rather than multiple/complex point themes that need lots of time to be explained (like facilitator, facilitation, personality type etc)
• Clear with all terms defined

It is even better if your lessons are:

• Actionable (if X or when X, then Y)
• Stated in the affirmative (what you do rather what you dont do)

Make sure that your lesson works here!

Several terms in this chapter are complex and cannot be used effectively such as facilitator, facilitation, active listening etc. You would need lots and lots of time to explain these terms to someone who is not taking our class. And that is not a good communication practice. So break these large concepts in smaller chunks or define terms so you can use them. For example you can use: listening fully without any judgments for active listening. Make sure your lessons include terms that are fully defined and do not need a long lecture so others can follow them.

Your example must be directly related to the lesson. Examples can come from the book, your personal/professional life, or can be fictitious. Make sure not to introduce any new terms in your lesson.