Designing for Other Facilitators
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Designing learning (and especially workshops) that can be picked up and run by someone else isn't always easy. In this episode, we discuss some common mistakes and what we can do as designers to create a great session that meets the client brief, includes the facilitator and delivers a great learning experience.
\\n00:50 Why is designing for facilitators important?
\\n03:08 Planning versus Designing
\\n04:28 What can go wrong when we don\\u2019t think about the facilitator
\\n05:57 Sometimes trainers don\\u2019t like using other people\\u2019s design
\\n07:27 The recipe analogy
\\n08:07 Giving facilitators flexibility
\\n08:56 More reasons to design in detail
\\n11:41 What we need to do differently -- more detail
\\n12:03 What we need to do differently -- signposting
\\n12:56 What we need to do differently -- explaining the reasons
\\n13:38 What we need to do differently -- specialist skills
\\n14:28 What we need to do differently -- give alternatives where possible
\\n15:21 Take care with broken links when editing
\\n16:00 Helping facilitators with their expectations of the group
\\n16:36 Making things easier for the facilitator
\\n17:19 Benefits for the facilitator
\\n19:00 Are facilitators always good at design?
\\n21:01 The 80/20 rule in following session plans
\\n22:12 Summary tips for making the facilitator-designer relationship work
\\n24:19 Including all the info on models and tools
\\n25:33 Terry\\u2019s takeaways for designing for facilitators
\\n27:02 Involve the facilitators
\\n27:16 It\\u2019s going to take longer
\\n28:36 Terry\\u2019s mini-topic: Using models that have been around a long time
\\n29:56 Balancing the old and the new in practice
\\n33:58 Who we are and getting in touch
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