067 - How Strengths-Based Facilitation can Improve the Results of your Workshop with Murray Guest
Everyone has their strengths, but not everyone gets to work in a way that is congruent with them. Well, that is unless they attend one of Murray Guest’s workshops.
Murray is a strengths-based facilitator with a litany of qualifications and a lifetime of experience in helping teams work to their individual and collective strengths, facilitating lasting change in organisations of all shapes and sizes.
But strengths-based facilitation is a nuanced practice and isn’t what some people might believe it to be. I wanted to dive deeper into what this practice looks like and uncover the lessons we can all take from it to enhance our own work.
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Questions and Answers
[01:42] When did you first call yourself a facilitator?
[07:21] How can we manage our energy as facilitators to prevent our participants feeling discomfort?
[11:23] What does strengths-based facilitation mean?
[21:43] Would you design a workshop around the participants’ strengths?
[22:34] How do you use strength-finding tools to drive outcomes?
[26:41] How can we take some of the communication skills and practices we have learned in remote work back to our offices?
[33:27] Why are certain conversations harder in virtual spaces?
[39:03] What makes a workshop fail?
[42:29] What is your favourite exercise?
[49:13] Is there anything else you wanted to share?
[52:26] What is the one takeaway you want listeners to have?
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