Episode 067
July 1, 2020
067: How Strengths-Based Facilitation can Improve the Results of your Workshop with Murray Guest
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Intro
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.
Find out about
- What strengths-based facilitation is and how Murray practices it
- Why strengths-based workshops are at their best when they are flexible and responsive
- Why embedding learning is the only way to truly deliver lasting results
- How enforced remote work is helping and harming teams, and what we can do to shape a new normal that is healthy and productive for everyone
- Why challenges and care are interlinked, and are blunted without each other
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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?