What are different styles of facilitation?

Facilitation styles are either direct (i.e., telling or selling) or indirect (i.e., coaching and encouraging while staying focused on the students). The role that a facilitator chooses directly dictates the style of facilitation used.

How do you facilitate group activity?

Tips for Facilitating Groups

1. Mentally and physically prepare yourself as the facilitator.
2. Create the right environment.
3. Ensure the expected outcome/s or objectives are clear.
4. Establish expectations.
5. Energise the group throughout the meeting.
6. Manage participation.
7. Adjust your facilitation style.

What are facilitation techniques?

Facilitation techniques involve getting people together to create new knowledge. As the facilitator, the Project Manager needs to encourage all ideas, resolve conflicts between contributors and achieve the goal of the exercise – be it a set of requirements or a Project Charter.

What is group process facilitation?

What is Group-Process Facilitation? Group-process facilitation, commonly called facilitation, is the design and management of structures and processes that help a group do its work more effectively, minimizing the problems people working together typically face.

What makes a good facilitator for a group?

A facilitator is a skilled questioner who can help equalize participation, elicit wisdom, and clarify the situation at hand. Facilitation is an art. A good facilitator is patient and levelheaded, has a strong memory, stamina, humor, skills, and the ability to track complex signals and care for the group.

What are the different types of facilitation styles?

Facilitation styles are either direct (i.e., telling or selling) or indirect (i.e., coaching and encouraging while staying focused on the students).

How to deal with group facilitation in an apprentice model?

This can be a particular issue in co-gender and cross- cultural facilitation teams. The best way to deal with group facilitation in an apprentice model is to be clear to the group at the beginning, while at the same time being very mindful of the potential splitting and undermining that can occur towards the new group facilitator.

When does activity facilitation occur in a group?

This style is based on research related to the Pygmalion effect: The students become what the teacher believes them to be. Activity facilitation occurs during a group activity. Greenaway (2004) states, “Sometimes the facilitator may simply be enabling a group to achieve a task in the time available” (paragraph 14).