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Question: Should I Meet My Audience Before A Presentation?
A subscriber asks: Is it okay to mingle with and meet my audience or training group in advance of my session starting? If so, how…
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Question: Should I Meet My Audience Before A Presentation?
A subscriber asks: Is it okay to mingle with and meet my audience or training group in advance of my session starting? If so, how…
Webinar – Live Demo of Interactive Exercises for Online Settings
Join playmeo’s next FREE webinar to experience a series of interactive exercises that are ideal for building engagement, connections and team skills, ideal for all…
I Was Wrong: Four Leadership Lessons I’ve Learned
In this week’s Facilitator Tips episode, I discuss four things I learned long ago as a less experienced group facilitator that I now understand or…
Simple Fun Games for 1, 2 or 3 People
Looking for a bunch of simple, fun and interactive games for one, two or three people? Are you a teacher (or a parent) who suddenly…
Top Four Interactive Exercises for Online Meetings & Virtual Conferences
Are you looking for interactive exercises to add to your next online meeting or conference, especially when face-to-face meetings are difficult or not possible at…
What If People Are Forced To Attend My Program?
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode explores what options you have available to you as a program leader when people are forced to attend. In an…
Five Strategies To Help You When You Draw A Blank
Here is what my planning process for facilitating a group often looks like: I do an initial planning session, feeling great. I know my content,…
Five Ways To Boost Your Energy
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode shares five simple strategies you can use right now to boost and nourish endless reserves of energy to keep you fresh…
Teambuilding in a Ballet School: A Case Study
The following article is a wonderful case study of what is possible when you combine play, fun and group games & activities in an unexpected…
How To Attract Willing Volunteers
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode shares a number of simple, yet effective strategies to help you motivate willing volunteers to show up in your group. Maybe…
How To Deal With A Reluctant Audience
How to Deal with a Reluctant Audience A reluctant audience is possibly one of the greatest fears of group facilitators. Groups can be reluctant or…
Are You Being Too Safe?
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode follows on from our previous episode (about keeping people safe) to ask a challenging question, are you being too safe?…
Simple Energiser Ideas for Lectures
If you understand why it’s so important to break up your lectures and are looking for lots of new ideas, the latest episode of the…
Keeping People Safe
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode explores the notion of how to keep people safe. I dare say that all group facilitators would argue that this…
Student-Driven Learning That Works
To usher in the new year, I’m excited to share a short (3 minute) video with you that features a unique school in Australia that…
Festive Greetings
As we near the end of another year, we want to wish all of our subscribers and users a wonderful & festive time this holiday…
How To Be Creative Leading Group Games
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode explores what it means to be creative leading group games & activities in your role as facilitator. Sometimes being creative is…
If You Meet Resistance, Stop Pushing
The advice seemed so obvious, I was caught off-guard by its simplicity. I was part of a conference workshop in which everyone in the room…
How To Manage Late People
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode explores the age-old issue of how to manage late people to your meetings and programs. People arriving late often cause…
Risky Play
When does play cross a threshold and become too risky? Do you encounter this question in your programs? Should young people be exposed to it?…
How To Manage Your Nerves As A Leader
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode explores a subject that impacts almost all leaders and group facilitators – how do you manage your nerves and doubts when…
A Curiosity Deficit?
I’m picking up on recent correspondence from my good friends Will and Chad from We! In their email, they raised a phenomenon called ‘curiosity deficit’…
How To Ask Good Debriefing Questions
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode is the fourth & final tutorial focused on developing your processing, reflection or debriefing skills. This episode explores the question…
People Who Care To Do Work That Matters
I have come to realise that one of the most powerful attributes that attracts me to others is not their looks, their income, their job…
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