Facilitating with AI model for group facilitators

Facilitating with AI: A model for group facilitators

This "Facilitating with AI" model presents a framework by dividing both Facilitators and Participants into categories that highlight different levels of AI integration. Here's a text-based layout of this 6-quadrant model.
AI for Facilitators Training Program Workshop

AI Facilitation Training Workshop for Program Designers and Facilitators

AI for Facilitators takes a hands-on approach to integrating AI into facilitation and workshop design. From enhancing real-time engagement to simplifying the creation of interactive workshop content, this program helps facilitators make the most of AI's capabilities. Participants will learn how to leverage AI to structure workshops, enhance collaboration, and streamline facilitation tasks.
Design Thinking AI Training

Design Thinking AI Training

Our Design Thinking AI Training delivers a practical approach to using AI in innovation. Participants leave with hands-on experience, tools, and the confidence to integrate AI into their workflows, turning challenges into opportunities for breakthrough solutions.
70-20-10 model learning and development

70-20-10 Model for Learning and Development

The 70-20-10 model for learning and development is a widely adopted framework that helps organizations structure professional development by emphasizing different forms of learning. It proposes that effective learning comes from three primary sources: experiential (70%), social (20%), and formal (10%). The model is valuable for building innovation skills, creativity, transformation, and resilience, as it blends real-world application, feedback from others, and structured education. In this guide we will share examples of applying the 70-20-10 model for learning and development in areas we like to focus on: innovation, creativity, problem solving, collaboration, facilitation, storytelling, etc. 
NotebookLM from Google AI Research Assistant Audio Episode Creator

AI Research Assistant Google NotebookLM: Create an Audio Episode from Notes

Google's NotebookLM isn't just another note-taking app. Think of it as your own personal research assistant on steroids. You simply upload your documents – articles, research papers, even your own notes – and NotebookLM gets to work, becoming an expert on the topic at hand. It can even create an audio episode about what you upload.
Leveraging Conferences for Professional Development Learning Leadership Skills

Leveraging Conferences for Professional Development of Leadership Skills

Conferences and workshops are more than just events to attend; they are powerful opportunities for professional growth and development. By taking an active role in these settings—whether by organizing a conference, leading a workshop, or facilitating a group session—you can enhance your leadership skills, improve your public speaking abilities, and foster creativity.

Gamestorming

Gamestorming is a powerful approach to facilitating workshops that emphasizes creativity, engagement, and collaboration through structured play activities. These activities, often referred to as "games," are designed to break down barriers, stimulate innovative thinking, and generate new ideas. This guide will explore the principles of Gamestorming, its benefits, and provide an overview of some key activities that can be incorporated into your workshops.

Guide to Experiential, Participant-Focused Facilitation or Training Methods

Learn about various facilitation and training methods focused on fostering interaction and engagement through experiences. Facilitation and training methods that focus on experiential learning and participant engagement are essential for fostering innovation, creativity, and collaboration within organizations. Design Thinking is a foundational approach we use that influences how these programs are designed and facilitated, emphasizing empathy, ideation, and iterative problem-solving. This is a guide to various methods that align with this participant-focused style.
Change Leadership and Change Management

Change Leadership and Change Management

When we lead our culture of innovation or innovative mindset leadership workshops, we try to help the group zero in on a focus area to ideate on that is valid and important to them. This is an area that is a problem (or opportunity) and can have an impact if it is affected. Change leadership and change management are very common purposes for our programs these days. One specific focus that often gets selected is about encouraging change and adaptability. Learn about popular frameworks in this guide.
CultureCon Conference Organization Culture

CultureCon Conference for Organizational Culture and Connection

CultureCon is one of my favorite conferences to attend each year because they excel at fostering these connections, yielding lasting results for me and many other participants I met. At the last CultureCon, I witnessed the magic of 30-minute breaks between sessions. It's almost like the sessions exist to make these breaks possible. The real value might not be so much in the sessions themselves but the conversations and connections that happen in between. Real collaborations form as a result.