There is a Workshop for that! | The greatest Podcast about Facilitation

Meet Douglas Ferguson, the President of Voltage Control, a facilitation academy that helps leaders and teams develop the skills they need to facilitate transformative meetings, drive collaboration, and inspire innovation. He is also the host of the podcast 'Control the Room.' Early in his career, Douglas became a leader and realized that effective leadership involves understanding what team members need to be engaged, perform well, and enjoy their work. His passion for this mission led him to establish Voltage Control. He has helped transform leaders, innovators, and creatives from Nike, U.S. SOCOM, Google, the Air Force, Gap, Tesla, MSU, Church & Dwight, Apple, Adobe, Dropbox, Fidelity, Vrbo, Liberty Mutual, Humana, and SAIC. In this episode, you'll discover: 👉🏻 Douglas's background and his dedication to helping teams thrive. 👉🏻 How his personal journey led him to embrace facilitation, 👉🏻 The way Voltage Control combines various facilitation styles and approaches. 👉🏻 The increasing recognition among companies about the value of facilitators. 👉🏻 How complex the challenge of meetings is and how to help companies to build new habits

Join us in this captivating episode with Charles-Louis de Maere, a facilitator and visionary visual thinking trainer hailing from Belgium. As the founder of Exploration Labs SRL, he has collaborated with a diverse array of organizations. Throughout his journey, he has discovered the common thread that brings about true magic in any endeavor – the moment when human beings work at their best. By meeting Dr. Sivasailam Thiagarajan, the visionary behind "The Thiagi Group," Charles-Louis realized again the profound impact of facilitation. This realization has become the cornerstone of his work, not only in corporate settings but also in his heartfelt engagements with NGOs. In this episode, get great insights like: 👉🏻 His captivating journey, transitioning from IT to becoming a facilitator 👉🏻 Why facilitation is a canvas of creative methods, not just a rigid recipe. 👉🏻 Drawing inspiration from the beloved "Little Prince" to illustrate the might of visual facilitation. 👉🏻 His touching experiences with a women's NGO in the Philippines. 👉🏻 How to harness the power of pictures to convey profound meanings in workshops

I am very happy to welcome today, Patrycja Pielaszek, founder of WECOCO. Passionate about digital tools and cars, and with a positive and enthusiastic personality, she puts all these great abilities and passions into her work as a workshop facilitator. She helps leadership and teams to better collaborate and communicate with each other. Through facilitation and new methodologies, such as design sprint, liberating structures, or Lego serious play, she enables teams to become better teams. In this episode, we chat about: 👉🏻 Her background and how she came to facilittion 👉🏻 How companies can tackle the challenges in their teams 👉🏻 The 3 elements that needs to be adress in Organization 👉🏻 The preparation of the TED Talk about ****How to bring community-led culture to life**** 👉🏻 WECOCO: We Connect•We Collaborate•We Create Futures

Jörg Winterhoff, founder of Sprjnt, discusses the challenges faced by freelance facilitators and the importance of refining their value proposition. They introduce AI card matching as a way to create tailored AI solutions for companies and express excitement about attending Facilitators Connect, a retreat for facilitation entrepreneurs.

Join Jake Knapp, Daan Schmidt, Holger Nils-Pohl, and Anthony Roose at the exclusive 'Together, Alone Retreat' in Portugal. They will offer hands-on training on Design Sprint, Creating Clarity, and Storybrand Framework. Learn about strategy facilitation, visual tools, and communication skills to elevate your facilitation game.

Welcome to Anamaria Dorgo, our guest today. Anamaria began her career in learning and development and created her first community with her peers before Covid. A few years later, she became community manager of Butter, the remote platform for virtual interactive sessions. She is the queen of member engagement and knows how to create a space where they can grow together so that networking becomes a way of creating meaningful links and value with and for everyone. Last year, she combined her passions for L&D and community management by starting her own freelance business for meaningful projects close to her heart. But don't worry, she's still all about the communities she leads👏. In this episode, we discuss: 👉🏻 Anamaria's background and her path to community management. 👉🏻 What a community is and how to meet like-minded people and grow together. 👉🏻 How Anamaria combined all her learning to create Handel with Brain. 👉🏻 She shares with us why you should start your own business before you're ready. Welcome to this episode!

Today, Axelle Vanquaillie is my guest. She's a visual storyteller and founder of Drawify, a platform that helps you turn dull texts into memorable Illustrations. She is the author of the book "Start to draw", a hands-on guide discussing the positive aspects of drawing and visualizing your ideas in your work environment. She will be one of the main speakers/trainers at the Facilitators Connection Retreat, which will take place in the Netherlands in September 2023. Axelle's skills as a visual facilitator, also known as a Sketch Noter or Graphic Recorder, take her all over the world listening to the stories of important people and visually summarising them. So welcome to this episode, where we talk about . 👉🏻 Axelle's background and her journey into visual facilitation. 👉🏻 What difference does visualisation make in workshops? 👉🏻 How do you get started in visual facilitation? 👉🏻 Drawify, the platform where you can create your own visual communication without drawing yourself. 👉🏻 What you can expect in his workshop at the "Facilitators Connect" retreat in September.

Today I'm welcoming Laura Duchatelet, a Belgian workshop facilitator, who sent me a message a few weeks ago asking if we could meet in Bali, where I've been based for the last few months. We're involved in the same communities of workshop facilitators, connected on social networks, but we'd never spoken or met before. We spent 4 days together and took the opportunity to record a live episode, as Laura is involved in a number of very interesting projects. So welcome to this episode, where we talk about . 👉🏻 Her background and path to facilitation 👉🏻 The event she organised to teach women how to network better and make deeper connections. 👉🏻 Why travel makes us better facilitators. 👉🏻 The learning experience with AI, she prepares for teams to teach them about this new technology and the impact on future work. 👉🏻 Her mission for worknomads, a global employer for digital nomads.

Today I welcome Chris Bradshaw, Product Strategist Director at Infinum and Innovation Consultant, whose mission is to help people turning their ideas into innovations. To do this, he has developed an entire workshops blue sprint to help his clients ask themselves the right questions, identify the real challenges and needs of the market, in order to reduce the risks of a failure. So welcome to this episode, where we talk about 👉🏻 Chris's mission and journey into facilitation 👉🏻 How the SPRINT book by Jake Knapp was a revelation in his approach 👉🏻 Why Workshops foster the culture of innovation giving a step-by-step process guided by facilitators 👉🏻 Sneak Peak in the four steps Framework of goodness he is developing to help business grow

In the field of facilitation, there are some people I really admire. My guest today is one of them. Brittni Bowering is a highly skilled workshop facilitator, known in the facilitation world for being the face of AJ&Smart on social media for years. Don't miss our Talk about: 👉🏻 Her background and career transformation 👉🏻 What differentiates good workshops from great workshops 👉🏻 And we get a sneak peek at what she's up to as a speaker and facilitator at the Facilitators Connect retreat in the Netherlands in September.