Ganesh Dalvi's Facili Training session - 06 & 07 Jan 2024d

 ACILI TRAINING . SAT 06 JAN 2023 Plaza Hotel 

" What happens on the day of training is only 10 % . Diagnosis and design is 90 % which is pre training . " 

Digi Break if participants refuse to switch of their phones . 10 minutes added to the tea break . 

Contracting with the clients is crucial . Not contracting with the particiapnts on the day of training . 

Vinisha : How do you handle, when a participant takes the phone call during the time, goes out , and does not come back till the end of training ? It happens only with finance guys. 

" If the guys does that, I am not responsible for the performance improvement of this guy . 

Bhu Laxmi ; Let the HR know. It happens with the company consent . It's ok to let them go. Conduct an excellent session . Akin to Open Space Technology. 

Parvathy : 

( Except me and Bhairy and Ganesh, all are women )

As a facilitator we need to overcome ' trainer mindset ' . Insisting on time . Penalizing participants when they are late . 

Bhu Laxmi : there should be shift from fear based approach to engagement based approach . 

Horn as a prop : Facilitators use this to seek attention . In IAF they use ' raise hands ' . 

But it should be a part of the contract prior to the beginning of the session . Any prop that the trainer uses, it should be given respect. 

( Send 7 page adult learning pdf to Neha Sharma ) 

Bhu Laksmi ; Senior guy : Why do you want group permission ? Shu Lakshmi : We are all equals here. The facilitator and the learner. Get vetted by participants.  ( During a 3 day retreat ) 

Sun 07 Jan 2023 

Ice breaker . Yesterday session re capture activity . 15 minutes. You need to meet as many peeps as possible and share your main learnings and ' aha' moments with them . This one created ruzzle buzzle . Other have reminded us what we forgot . There was movement physically and an energizer . 

This actually is a  good re usable learning object. Elevator pitch like, speed dating like ice breaker. 

You can use this as a closure tool too. Towards the end. Or in the middle of a session too as a recap. 

Activity 2 : Picture cards . Randomly each of you pick up  3 cards each . Answer questions . 4

net search : tools and processes to use a convergence activty . 

( Review and Recap activity ) 

Q 1; What emerged for me yesterday ?  

Q 2 : What worked for me ?  

Q3 : What can I do today , to gain the maximum learning for myself ? 

4. What can I do today so that my co learners get the maximum learnings ? 

1. Spend a lot of time , 90% of it in diagnosis and client contracting. Also, spend 90% of the time, in designing the session and 10% in implementing it. 

examples : Pre lunch : the jig saw puzzle leading to various aspects of facilitation . Team work. A step by steps. Team work given to 3 tables were too , sequences. 

Example 2 : Quiz and tasks. 

Q2 : Being in the  moment . Attentive and active listening. 

Q3 : Same as above. Having mindfulenss and recording it. Activly. 

Q 4 : Tapping into your reserves of experiene and sharing with the spirit of passing on knowledge. 

10.30 am . One hour is over and the review of yesterday's learning activity is still going on . 

My table mates : Sonali, Neha Sharma , myself and Amruta  , HR generalist brought in by Bhu Lakshmi. 

Bhu Lakshmi and vinisha are absent today . 

3 main learning styles. Discussion . Visual , Auditory and Kinesthetic .

In facili training, we look at 2 more learning styles. 

(1) Social Learning . Ensure social learning . Connectivism . Ensure social learning at the round tables. Frame relevant questions. 

(2)  Structrural or intellectual learning. 

12.15 pm . Debrief of the card activity . First one hour, it's review only. up to 10.30 . Then, the card game started . It was great. Can I buy the cards from Ganesh ? 

Amruta ; Different traits of faciltiator . Good to have must have and nice to have. Desirable and undesirable activity . 

Padma Latha : Perspective sharing . Getting a consensus. 

Bhairi : Possible scenarios of application of competencies. 

Lavanya : It's ok to disagree . 

Neha ; How about trainers can interpret in a wrong way ? 

Cards activity has to be industry specific .  Function specific . Like Leadership traits. Sales person specific. 

Padma Latha ; Facilitation is open ended. How do you bring it all together ? ( Convergence ) 

Card images . (1) What I would do ? (2) What would the team do ? (3) What would the management do ? (4) What other stake holders should do ? ( expectations ) 

Cards.  Senior Managers.  

( You have done leadership traits list in Police. You can convert into a card game ) 

12.45 pm . Debrief . Coming to a closure. Semi circle activity . 

Basic elements of designing an activity ?  (12.45 pm ) 

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(1) Social (2) Structured ( 3 ) VAK - Visual , Auditory & Kinesthetic . (4) Inclusive (5)  Participativr (6) Engaging 

12.15 pm . Debrief of the card activity . First one hour, it's review only. up to 10.30 . Then, the card game started . It was great. Can I buy the cards from Ganesh ? 

Amruta ; Different traits of faciltiator . Good to have must have and nice to have. Desirable and undesirable activity . 

Padma Latha : Perspective sharing . Getting a consensus. 

Bhairi : Possible scenarios of application of competencies. 

Lavanya : It's ok to disagree . 

Neha ; How about trainers can interpret in a wrong way ? 

Cards activity has to be industry specific .  Function specific . Like Leadership traits. Sales person specific. 

Padma Latha ; Facilitation is open ended. How do you bring it all together ? ( Convergence ) 

Card images . (1) What I would do ? (2) What would the team do ? (3) What would the management do ? (4) What other stake holders should do ? ( expectations ) 

Cards.  Senior Managers.  

Inclusiveness , participation and engagement starts from client contracting . 

In facili training, 

(1) Social Learning (2) Structured learning (3) VAK ( Visual , Auditory and Kinestic ) . (4) Inclusive (5) Participative ( 6) Engaging  (7) ORID or 4 F or ELTD method 

(8) Group wisdom harvesting   (9) Debriefing  ( 10) Cross Pollination  (11) Divergence (12) Convergence. 

GWH questions are mostly open ended questions  Debrief has leading questions . Important in facili training. 

ORID format . Debrief questions . Session wrap up questions . 

ORID certification is given by ICA ? What is 4 F frame work in training facilitation ? 

An exhange of ideas between individuals and between groups . 

Individual activies do not lead to cross pollination ,unless sharing is done. 

POST LUNCH . 

Snakes and Ladders leadership game . Leadership dos and don'ts . Snakes and ladders. 

Activity : 30 mins. Bad qualities. Impact. Corrective action . 

Debrief ( 3.20 pm ) :  Where all can we use it ? ( Ganesh ) . 

Audience : Many places. 

Ganesh : You can give them sankes and ladders empty  sheet. Come up with 15 desirable and undersirable traits of a leaders and paste on each snake and ladder . Discuss impact and corrective action . And benefit .

This is an activity that can go on for 2 hours .  

Leadership traits . Negatives . Positives. Impact . Corrective action . Discussion among the table mates. 

" Leadership " definition varies from company to company . Industry to industry . 

3.30 pm . ACTIVITY DESIGN , PRESENTATION 

Pick any prop . Based on the prop come up with a big activity . How would you deliver one particular activity . 

OPTICS methods . O = Outcome .  P = participants details . T = timeline for each activty . I = Infracture 

C = Cost . 

RECAP : 

Me : 12 ingradients of a facili training . Neha ; Social learning and structured learning . 

Sonali : Picture card activity of facilitator traits.  Designing of the activity in the post lunch session . 

Amruta : Bigger picture. How to design a training program . Mood O meter. Activity design . Digi break concept . Client contracting . Preparation . 

Srini Bhairi : Empowered with divergence and convergence concepts . ORID concept reinforced. Learning structure and social learning . Apply : Career coaching . Communication skills.  Parenting coaching. CFTP Converging, fulfilling , thoughtufl and precious. 

Lavanya Shankar : Moodomerter is an aha moment . So many new terminologies that I learned. Ambassadorial sharing . Cross polination of ideas . Divergence and confergence. Picture cards. Closure tools were intactive and useful. 

Padma Latha ; Delighted to be here . With what sensibility and consciousness should be design the activity . Right activity design impacts the individuals and organizations . Facilitators were non judgmental, neutral. We were doing to fiture it out. 

Clark Quinn session . Online. "Fri 12 Jan 2024 . Talking transfer. Learning transfer to the work place. 

Participants : Many   

Sat 20 Jan 2024 . Pepe Numme Session , Ideologue method.  11 am to 1.30 noon. 

23 break out rooms of 3. Q : Why is this session imp for me ? 

My partners. both from Pune. Ashish Gauvar and BL Joshi . purpose of joining ; To know more about faciltation skills and methodology . 

23 break out rooms. Time limit ; 3 minutes. 

When you talk to just one participant in the room, you will FEEL SAFE to share . Hence dividing participants into groups of 2 or 3 is important . It is comfortable to shy people and introverts. It should be structured with a question. 

" In organizations, people don't necessarily agree on strategy, and problems and solutions. But in groups, people agree based on peer pressure. This leads to group think. Healthy conflict is ignored. " 

After divergence and emergence, you sepatate the idea generation and idea selection . 

PN was hired in 2002 for a creativity session . Printing machine company , does printing for news papers. 

/ * Mr PN does not read chat. Not a typing person. Only depends on direct, voice and video interactions. 

Did not conduct a Poll when he could have. " choose the best idea for the outdated printing machine . * / 

Break through idea is basically a cross pollination . Also ' Synthesis ' in Bloom's Taxonomy . 

(1) Cold ideas (2) Warm ideas and (3) Break through ideas. 

Make the cold ideas warm, with the dialogue. 

Slide . Challenges in group ideation and decision making and solution generation. Have you experienced these problems in your facilitation sessions ? 

Slide 6 : Break through decision making. 

12.18 . ACTIVITY 1 ( INDIVIDUAL ) 

List 3 or 5 Indian products and services for International tourism . On paper. I wrote , (1) Medical tourism (2) Higher Education and universities (3) Heritage monuments and sight seeing. Let's listen from others . 

Chat saved with ' India ' file name. 

4 minutes exercise. 

Lof of peeps are interested on telling their ideas but not intersted to LISTEN ! This needs to be forced. 

12.25 . 

BREAK OUT ROOM NO 2 . 

You have to ask ' why is your idea , a good idea ? ' Get the idea behind the idea . 

12.45 noon. Break out room 2 activity is over.  Me, Puja Thakur and Himani Vasudevl. 

Best group size is 3 . IF it's 2, the group dynamics don't work. If it's more than 4 or 5 , there are silent people who tune out of the group discussin . PN   It's more introvert friendly. The other 2 put pressure on the silent person to share their ideas. 

12.46 . 

BREAK OUT ROOM NO 3. With groups of 3. 

1.00 noon . 

Break out room no 3 is oveer. Me with Ryan Baretto and Sara Kachwalla . 

I discusse my 2 pet ideas . Medical tourism . Educational Tourism . India should be culturally more diverse . Beaf and pork. 

Ryan asked me ' what is world class ' ? Is it only in international rankings ? Products of reputed colleges are not good enough. I answered . 

Sanjay Kanakia , send linked in req . Sara

/ * Session ended at 1.35 pm . It's 35 minutes longer. But session content covered. It's a week end. It's a good practice to hang on for 15 minutes after FORMALLY the workshop is over . Ganesh too did that after his facili training at Hotel Plaza. On both days . " I will stay on for 15 minutes more. " . It's open space tech method . People who want to leave, can. Ok. People wh want to hang on, will hang on and clarify their doubts that he did not want to ask in the public or doubts which are outside the purview of the workshop theme ! " * / 

People can be informal and honest in small groups because they feel it's private conversation . In big groups, people take POSITIONS because they represent their functions or group or team. 

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