Establish Your Personality

I am putting together a workshop about Fun in Facilitation and one of the things that I realized made my work fun is leading with my personality.

I think today a lot of work and worry goes into content, how to present it, how much to present, etc, and not too much goes into format and style.

So I say start off with your own personality shining and the group will follow you more readily.

After all the group knows it will have to listen to you or work with you for a couple of hours, so why not invest some time in showing them who you are, how you work and that they are in for a fun/interesting/stimulating time.

I always put a short science demonstration up front to establish the tone. This could be something like rope handcuffs or a swirling tubes or anything short and sweet. This establishes my tone, wakes them up and allows them to see my style. I make sure it leads to an interesting point about the topic and on with the day.

So that's my 2 cents today. Not all will agree with me and that's okay, just think about it.