First Time Facilitator
Leanne Hughes from the First Time Facilitator blog reveals all of her group facilitation, training and workshop tips and tricks so you can be ahead of the curve the next time you step out in front of a group.Discover how you can tweak elements of your facilitation style, or incorporate new techniques to engage your audience and leave with lasting impact (and 5-star feedback). Icebreakers, leadership, group interaction, preparation, games, conflict, props, flip-charts, delivery, voice, body language, confidence, discussions and everything that works (and doesn’t work) to help you better understand how to deliver and connect with your audience, every single time.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 278
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Hold your workshop outcomes lightly with Kirsty Lewis (Episode 58)
Our guest today is really passionate about how learning is designed and delivered. She believes that good things happen when you bring likeminded individuals together from the wo…
12 Rules for Facilitation: Part 1 (Episode 57)
When you reflect on the workshops and conferences you deliver, each of us has a different style and a different way of bringing yourself to the party. These are my 12 Rules for F…
The small truths of facilitation (and taking care of yourself, systematically) with Tim Pence (Episode 56)
As I’ve explored in earlier episodes, when you’re up delivering and facilitating workshops, you’re not only using a lot of mental load, but it’s very much a physical job, too. T…
Facilitating once in a lifetime workshop experiences with Steve Sims (Episode 55)
Today’s guest runs the coolest workshops I’ve ever heard of, no joke. And how does he embed learning at the end of these workshops? By making people practice the skills they’ve l…
Team-Building: How to create appealing (and less eye-rolling) experiences with Andy Balzat (Episode 54)
Team building. Love it? Hate it? Don’t really bother? It’s an interesting concept. I actually LOVE teambuilding and taking any opportunity I can, especially during work hours, to…
Team Coaching: How to help teams have the conversations they need to have with Steph Clarke (Episode 53)
In a perfect world, we would be working alongside newly formed teams, newly promoted managers and helping to set the scene, create a team vision, purpose and values and define wa…
Creative facilitation (and why doing gives you the greatest learning) with Dr Cathryn Lloyd (Episode 52)
Dr Cathryn Lloyd is a facilitator, educator, researcher, arts practitioner, and creative development coach. She describes herself as a ‘bricoleur’ in the way she brings together …
PowerPoint tips every facilitator needs to know with Thomas Krafft (Episode 51)
Our guest today knows that in every poor presentation, there is a brilliant presentation waiting to be unleashed. A wizard of PowerPoint design and presentation physicality, Thom…
What I’ve learnt during 50 episodes of the First Time Facilitator podcast (Episode 50)
In this episode, I sit down in the guests's seat, and reflect on 50 episodes of the First Time Facilitator podcast. Sean Lavin guides a great conversation on what I've learnt fro…
Great facilitators notice patterns in the room with Oscar Trimboli (Episode 49)
There’s really common theme when I ask facilitators what skills they think are necessary for facilitation. The answer? It’s about the ability to listen. Not only to the words, b…
Don’t sell the plane, sell the holiday: How to demonstrate your credibility to others with Petra Zink (Episode 48)
Her alarm is set for 3.45am every week day. Meet Petra Zink, a Coach, Speaker and Consultant on all things Career & the Future of Work. In this episode, we talk about building yo…
Reflect, refocus, reset: Simple tools to make 2019 your best year ever (Episode 47)
This episode is coming to you on 31 December 2018, the last day of yet another year. I know it’s cliche setting new year’s resolutions and I don’t really do those, but I do find …
Learning is not a stand-alone event with Kerry Brocks (Episode 46)
Happy Christmas eve to all of you, and I hope you are taking the time to relax with family and friend’s and also recharging for a big 2019. Today’s guest is Kerry Brocks, and she…
One question you need to ask before you take the stage with Julian Treasure (Episode 45)
In today’s episode, I talk to Julian Treasure. Julian is a sought-after and top-rated international sound and communication expert. He is a gripping speaker with 5 TED talks onli…
Creating rewarding workshop experiences: How to apply the SCARF model into your facilitation work (Episode 44)
I recently co-facilitated a leadership course for mid-level leaders and as part of that, explained the SCARF mode. This is a brain based model created by David Rock in 2008; a s…
No artistry required: Rediscovering paper, pencils and markers with Matteo Becchi (Episode 43)
If you’ve ever wondered how to make communication in meetings easier, and what x-factor tools can help you bring a conference together and really support your skills in facilitat…
Edutainment: How to combine knowledge, wit and interaction in your presentations with Dave Jackson (Episode 42)
In this episode, I chat to 2018 Podcast Hall of Fame inductee, Dave Jackson. He’s been podcasting since April 2005, and has been the host of nearly a dozen different podcasts ov…
Unleash your inner intrapreneur: How facilitators can liberate innovation and creativity in organisations with Dr Irena Yashin-Shaw (Episode 41)
Today’s guest is on a mission to liberate innovation, creativity and leadership within organisations. On this episode, you’ll hear how Dr Irena Yashin-Shaw transitioned from a hi…
A conversation with a CEO (Chief Education Officer) – Martin Probst (Episode 40)
The challenge with facilitating or running any type of training program, is ensuring that the lessons stick with participants. This week, I chat to Martin Probst from PROfound le…
Discover your facilitator zone of genius (and monetise your facilitation skills) with Sarah McVanel (Episode 39)
Sarah McVanel is a recognition expert, author, an experienced and dynamic speaker and coach. She helps leaders leverage the exponential power of recognition to retain top talent …