Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Jade Duggan, Strategic Counselor & Cultural Design Guidance at Mindbody Leadership & Wellness Organization Structure Expert, about navigating facilitation through mindfulness, applying the skills of self-awareness in leadership towards organization infrastructure, & more.
Facilitator
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Douglas Ferguson chats with professional facilitator & workshop leader Cam Houser about his Instant Community-Building Workshop and his approach to facilitation design.
Control the Room Summit 2021: Mohamed Ali, Service Designer and Facilitator at Independant, discusses how self-interest can create engagement and participation for your audience.
Control the Room Summit 2021: Rachel Ben Hamou, Director of Talent Development at PeopleStorming, and Andre Ben Hamou, Co-Founder of PeopleStorming, explored how to develop processes and criteria (that they will genuinely use) that allow facilitators to evaluate exercises and activities at speed.
Control the Room Summit 2021: Elena Astilleros of Empoderment, discusses turning your meeting from “Sh** to hit.” She explores how facilitators might be creating the wrong kind of drama (without realizing it) when facilitating.
Control the Room Summit 2021: Joshua Davies, Founder and Lead Conversation Architect at Knowmium, speaks on how conversations operate and move in our facilitations. If we are to reach an understanding with others, we must have a path to empathy.
Control the Room Summit 2021: Kaleem Clarkson, Chief Operating Officer at Blend Me, Inc., and David Klasko, Actor, Comedian, and Founder of Artly Working, present on what the research says about the dangers of isolation, and how playing simple (and incredibly fun) games can create meaningful human connection in the virtual workplace.
Control the Room Summit 2021: J. Elise Keith, Founder and CEO of Lucid Meetings, speaks about facilitating in the present, near, and future. We can take a project from real-time excitement to near and far-time enthusiasm through creating records and remembrances of the occurrence.