Workshop Facilitation: How To Get Started (And Transform Your Career)

[@AJSmart]

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[@clarityofthought]

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[@peterhausen750]

Hi guys, thanks a lot for your inspiration! What I am looking for is kind of a "workshop construction kit". I am working for more than 20 years in the Software Industry and recognized more and more over the years that it is not about having the knowledge or the best ideas to make progress so I changed more and more towards workshop-style metings rather tahn these endless discussions. As the effort is way too high to prepare each of these workshop individually I am looking for something like: "these are the typical 20 situations where 90% of all projects/initiatives get stuck" and here are the 40 approaches to tackle them (A and B flavor for each situation ;-)) - so the job only would be to identify the right category of situation, grap into your kit and go rigth into the execise.... Ideas and hints to follow-up really appreciated! Thank you

[@AJSmart]

​@@peterhausen750 Hey Peter! Thanks for your comment. Our Workshopper Master program might be just what you're looking for. You can find out more about it in our free webinar - go.ajsmart.com/start - (we discuss the program towards the end of the webinar). You can also reach out directly to one of our Student Success Coaches, Sean ([e-mail]) and he will be happy to walk you through the program. Hope this is helpful. Have a great day 🙌

[@mishmashbyElmanAli]

hey Amr, got your channel recommended from a colleague who is a design thinker at my company. His name is Lukas Liebich, i love his trainings, workshops. This is my second time watching the same video... I am not a KZbinr but doing a small videos on my channel as well, mostly in my native... but your video ... i was glued to screen ... signed up, followed your channel and downloaded book to study more. This "facilitation" business or i should say mindset well aligns with my future career aspirations and goals. I want my coaching aspect to enhance, creativeness to improve, teaching/training skills to be active always and leadership skills to become solid. As you said dear, i am seeing and imagining facilitation skills as applicable to a wide variety or areas from daily meetings/ teambuildings to "possible" side business. thanks for your great work and keep it up !!!

[@AJSmart]

@@mishmashbyElmanAli Hey thanks so much for your comment! Lukas is great! he's one of the most engaged and valuable members of our Workshopper community! I'm glad to hear that you're passionate about facilitation and that you can see it as a possible career path. Also very glad to hear that you like our content!! If you want to learn more about facilitation and workshopping you can watch our 1-hour free training here -> go.ajsmart.com/start By the end of that training, you'll be able to book a call with one of our Student Success Coaches and explore further the possibility of facilitation as a career. Hope you keep enjoying our content! Have a great day!!

[@Calumrussell88]

I see Amr, I click. What a legend!

[@AJSmart]

Thanks Calum! Amr will be so happy when he sees this comment!

[@asystematec]

Haha love you man! ❤️

[@GoldoMania.]

buddy, your charisma is out of this world! you will be my friend forever😀

[@elijahmbang2728]

Amr, the guy who gave me the path am following to my Ux career, thanks brotherly can thank you enough. With God's help I have being progressing really fast. Started few month ago. Amr is a legend 💙💙😇

[@abdurrahmanhalis]

Amr is the king of valuable content. A nice follow-up might be sth like: which kind of workshop is suitable for which scenario?

[@AJSmart]

Thanks for that comment abdurrahman açıkgöz! The king is happy to read it 😉. That's a great suggestion. Will keep that in mind. Cheers!

[@eberechigodwin3763]

Thanks so much for this information, its great and really worth while.it it's amazing

[@nairinasrallah7318]

Wow! Awesome work everyone! This is a perfect guide for faciliators 😄

[@AJSmart]

Thanks Nairi! We hope it helps a lot of people starting out! Cheers

[@sbodrillo]

From the Italian word 'facile', which means easy. Hence, 'to make something easier' 🙂

[@blandineeakking]

You guys are the best, you changed my life with the masterclass, super power tool

[@AJSmart]

Thank you soooo much for that comment 🙌! That's amazing to hear. That's exactly why we do what we do! Good luck and keep us posted.

[@imdaveperkins]

Yeah, this is super helpful. There was me thinking I had to figure this all out by myself!

[@AJSmart]

Thanks for the comment David! You don't have to figure this all out by yourself! That's what Amr is here for. Cheers!

[@youravggamer15]

Thank you Amr for the in-depth video about facilitation a workshop, really learned a lot from you and the team at AJ&Smart. Questions that I have: 1. What sort of activities would you do with your team for existing projects? 2. Do you have any videos talking about different type of activities that you can do as a team for existing/small projects. I know you guys have videos about design sprint but I am unsure if that would applicable to smaller projects.

[@AJSmart]

Hey youravggamer15! Thanks for your question! As you mentioned, for bigger projects we normally do an Iteration Sprint that comes after the first design sprint. During the iteration sprint we actioned the feedback and the insights that we've gained after the first design sprints. For shorter problems we usually run an LDJ (Lightning Decision Jam). That's a 1-hour general problem solving workshop. If you want to lean more about the LDJ we have a KZbin video showing you how to run it. ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWqwp4x6lqZkeM0 ). You can also download the guide for how to run it here -> ajsmart.com/ldj And if we want to solve a small problem like coming up with video content for youtube. We just run a short "Note and Vote" sessions. During this session, the participants get a specific amount of time to write down as many ideas as possible on sticky-notes. Then the sticky notes are put up on a wall and every participant gets an amount of voting dots. Then every one votes and the ideas with the most votes are the ones that get actioned. In the next few days, will be releasing a video about the "note and vote" including the script of what you should say during the exercise. We hope this was helpful. Cheers

[@KiranVarri]

Fabulous one... Tyty👍💫💫💫🤩

[@elifozdemir3409]

Thank you! This was super helpful. Just finished reading the guidebook, you even shared your Spotify list!?

[@AJSmart]

Thanks, Elif Özdemir! Glad to hear you find the facilitation guidebook helpful! Yeah, the Spotify playlist is for everyone to enjoy! Are you planning on facilitating a workshop soon? Cheers

[@elifozdemir3409]

@@AJSmart Yes! Improving my facilitation skills is most definitely part of my UX career trajectory. I have a couple of ideas to start very small already in a circle. Until I get to realize them, I will be gratefully following your awesome work! 😊

[@AJSmart]

@@elifozdemir3409 That's great! Keep facilitating workshops, that's one of the best ways to improve those skills. Good luck with your projects and let us know how it goes 😀

[@sunjeevesingh]

Great vid Amr. As a freelance consultant, who is a typical avatat and how do you genetate leads?

[@MaryCreativeCo]

Thank you for such an amazing video! :)

[@AJSmart]

Thanks Mary! That's really nice to hear. Glad it was helpful! Cheers

[@kishorimonukumari2979]

Hi I have a question in my mind when I started learning, how did I deep understanding user experience, where to start and how to start what type of questions I ask my users, and how to communicate with them.

[@carlolegolie643]

How do you facilitate a hole agenda like in a school setting? Where every point needs discussed. What strategie would you recommend.

[@AJSmart]

Hey Carlo! This question is a bit difficult to answer without more context. 🤷‍♂️

[@carlolegolie643]

@@AJSmart As a teacher we have alot of meetings! Where we have to tackle multiple points on agenda. For example an agenda would look like this: discipline; weekly planning; functions; period rosters; drafting policies; ens. That basically a list of what needs to be discussed at a teachers general meeting that needs to be held once or twice a term. This meetings can drag on for hours and than at the end no one has achieved anything, because everyone just wants it done and dusted. This brings me back to my question: How can you facilitate such meetings with multiple points and not let it get dragged out. So solutions can be found and everyone can participate quicker. Thank you for the great content the team is putting out. I use alot of your strategies in the classroom and I must say it has made me a better teacher for it.

[@ananthakrishnan9186]

Which is it more similar to? A scrum master or an event(meeting in this case) organiser?

[@AJSmart]

Hey Anantha Krishnan! that’s a great question. In the case of the video, we’re talking about the role of the facilitator in a broad way, regardless of the type of workshop or recipe that’s being facilitated. So it could be indeed an event or meeting organiser. The idea is that the facilitator is able to bring a group of people together and help them solve their problems through a structured workshop. A scrum master should have facilitation skills too because she/he is responsible for facilitating key sessions and team events to ensure constant progress within the project. But since a scrum is a specific framework for developing and delivering products, the scrum master’s job encompasses a whole lot of other responsibilities specific to the scrum. Hope this was helpful. Cheers.

[@ananthakrishnan9186]

@@AJSmart It makes a lot more sense now. thanks for the update!!

[@manishkumar-hx3rg]

Hi amr I'm manish, I like and learn from ur videos a lot I want to ask one thing if u pls answer , I spend a long time working as an sculptor in india like 21 years and I also work on photoshop, illustrator , coraldraw and started learning these days figma , vectary, sketch after watching ur videos and some more peoples like who are giving absolute knowledge , so my question is can I go for UI design platform as a career for myself pls assist me if possible this would give my life a new direction . Thanks.....

[@AJSmart]

Hi manish! thanks for sharing. Making a career change can be challenging and it's a very personal decision. We have a video on how to get started in UX design. Most of the advice in that video is also applicable to UI design. With it you can follow some steps that might help you decide if going for a career in UI is the right thing for you. If after watching the video or even implementing some of the advice you still have some questions about it, don't hesitate to ask again. Check out the video here kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmHEdKKnjbB5hbc And here is a playlist with different videos about UX and UI design that might help you as well kzbin.info/aero/PLxk9zj3EDi0UkDkO2ObGAk7HVdb7ctgrS Hope this was helpful. Good luck!

[@ajmjtl]

I confirmed my email but there's no link to download the guide! I think the facilitation workshop that discussed this endeavor missed one critical detail! ;)

[@RyandeMetz]

Hey there Jim! Oh no 😮 Could you send us an email to [e-mail] and I'll get you sorted out!

[@AJSmart]

Hey Jim! Sorry to hear that. If you still haven't received the facilitation guidebook then contact us as mentioned by our colleague Ryan. Hope you enjoy it! Cheers

[@cliptsix]

Hi any way how to contact you ?

[@sahildeshmukh1462]

Sir which is the best course to get into UI UX design as I am done with my bachelor's degree in marketing and wishing to get into UI UX design.

[@AJSmart]

Thanks for your question Sahil Deshmukh. We have a video on "How to get started in UX design". You can watch it here -> kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmHEdKKnjbB5hbc In that video we share 6 steps that will help you go from a complete beginner to a trained up UX designer. There we also share the key (free) online courses to take, the tools to master, the communities to join, the lessons we’ve learned, and the books you should read in order to become a UX Design expert. Hope this is helpful. Good Luck!

[@DorelleBrock]

So this falls inline with being a scrum master

[@AJSmart]

Can help there too yes!

[@lowzhiqi8671]

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[@MarcoBazzani-MB]

facilitation guidebook doesn't work I don't get the email with the download link

[@AJSmart]

Oh no, if this didn't work email us on [e-mail] and we'll get your sorted

[@kamipadden2780]

Can you please add subtitles? As a deaf person, I can't understand what you are saying without subtitles. I hope you will make your videos more accessible in the near future :(

[@AJSmart]

Thanks for the suggestion Kami Padden. We're working at the moment on adding the subtitles for this video. As soon as that's done, we'll let you know. Thanks again.

[@hanaahmed9000]

Thank you for your content Please can you put translate to Arabic??