The Exceptional Facilitator

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken curiosity in creative expression and knowledge.” Albert Einstein.

How wonderful it is to participate in a learning experience with an enthusiastic, dynamic, energetic facilitator with great knowledge and ability to lead his audience and keep them focused during the course of the activity! Do you remember someone like that?

A facilitator who manages to stay in people's minds because of the methods used and the results achieved is, without a doubt, an exceptional facilitator.

What characterizes an exceptional facilitator?

I think a facilitator can be considered exceptional when he has achieved mastery in the management of the strategies and tools of facilitation, taking them beyond their knowledge and management, to turn them into instruments of empowerment of his learning partners.
He knows and manages these tools, and also knows the right moment to use them, so that the group maintains its focus and can evaluate the steps to follow during the learning process.

The exceptional facilitator has clarity about the objectives to be achieved at the end of the educational activity and the knowledge of the best practices to achieve them.

He has a deep mastery of the area in which he works or about which he communicates information. He also applies strategies and knowledge that allow him to generate immediate results in the group and create a lasting impact over time.
He can identify the learning styles and representation systems of the learning partners, designing activities that cater to each of them, creating a diverse yet inclusive learning environment.

He is an active listener that generates clarity and understanding in the group by asking powerful questions.

It could be said that he stands out more for his ability to formulate questions than for his skill in answering them.

These powerful questions facilitate spaces for reflection and dialogue, which allow us to get to the heart of the issues at hand. They also lead to learning and facilitate conflict resolution.

A world-class facilitator is credible and inspires trust. This is achieved by becoming a reference in his area of knowledge and learning to manage his body language, posture and voice in such a way that projects confidence when speaking and moving around the room.

He generates a learning environment that provides security to the participant, who feels free to deploy his creativity and offer different and unexpected solutions to the problems posed.

Becoming an extraordinary facilitator is not a goal reserved for only a few. On the contrary, we can all become powerful facilitators.

To achieve this, a permanent commitment to training and updating is necessary. It is also necessary to know and develop the necessary tools, in order to know when to apply them in the group.

Remember, you too can be an exceptional facilitator!