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Facilitation in Action

Finding Your Authentic Training Style
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Facilitation in Action offers expert guidance from four seasoned ATD facilitators—Carrie Addington, Jared Douglas, Nikki O'Keeffe, and Darryl Wyles—who share practical tips, lessons, and stories based on real-world experience in diverse industries such as government, healthcare, marketing, and beauty. The book helps facilitators develop an authentic training style and a facilitation mindset focused on understanding and meeting learners' needs before, during, and after sessions. It covers adapting facilitation methods across various modalities, handling unexpected changes with agility, and emphasising empathy, inclusion, feedback, and performance throughout the learning journey. Each chapter features reflective prompts, encouraging both new and experienced facilitators to enhance their skills and impact.
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This book is ideal for new and experienced facilitators, corporate trainers, and learning and development professionals seeking to improve their training delivery and adapt to various learning environments. It also suits those interested in enhancing inclusivity, learner engagement, and practical facilitation techniques across multiple industries.

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Learn how to develop a facilitation mindset that identifies what learners need to be successful before, during, and after training. Explore how to adapt your facilitation across various modalities and how to be prepared when you must pivot in the moment, and dive into the importance of empathy, inclusion, feedback, and performance to facilitation.

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Improve the impact of your facilitation with insights from four master ATD facilitators who open your eyes to the range of facilitation methods and techniques, helping you find your authentic training style.

Authors Carrie Addington, Jared Douglas, Nikki O'Keeffe, and Darryl Wyles share tips, lessons, and stories rooted in hands-on application from experiences leading ATD's education programmes and delivering training in industries from government and healthcare to marketing and beauty.

Learn how to develop a facilitation mindset that identifies what learners need to be successful before, during, and after training. Explore how to adapt your facilitation across various modalities and how to be prepared when you must pivot in the moment. Dive into the importance of empathy, inclusion, feedback, and performance to facilitation.

Facilitation in Action takes both new and established facilitators on a journey of honing training delivery skills and demonstrating agility for the benefit of the learners, the organisation, and themselves. The chapters are structured around actual questions the authors have received over the years from learners in ATD Education's train-the-trainer sessions. Each chapter concludes with invitations and moments of reflection for the reader as they consider their own development as a facilitator.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781953946362

Publisher: American Society for Training & Development

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 October 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: ATD Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 228

About the Author

Carrie Addington is senior manager of learning experience and facilitator development at ATD, where she leads the strategy for the facilitation and learning experience of ATD education courses. She is a master facilitator and strengths-based people development coach with a passion for delivering practical learning experiences with a spirited energy. As an education consultant and facilitator for more than 12 years, Carrie has worked with a variety of business segments including retail, beauty, education, and nonprofits, and has worked with C-level executives, directors, managers, and high potentials.

is program manager of facilitator development at ATD. As a certified ATD Master Trainer, ATD Master Instructional Designer, and APTD credential holder, she understands the value of solid training plans and strong facilitation. Having served many years as a facilitator for ATD's face-to-face, online, and asynchronous learning in addition to her facilitation, she now supports ATD's global facilitator network with performance support to ensure each delivery for ATD participants is impactful.

is a facilitator for ATD with more than 20 years of experience in talent development. He has played major roles in transforming learning programs as a leader for large and small organizations in government and the financial services industry. Darryl enjoys the challenge of building organizational end-to-end training solutions from the ground up and is passionate about providing a fun and interactive learning environment in his workshops.

is an internal ATD facilitator. He uses a learner-centric approach to create an engaging, inclusive environment in his sessions. As a consultant, Jared has worked with organizations across various industries, including advertising, transportation, finance, technology, and consumer goods to help clients develop and execute in-person, digital, and blended learning initiatives.

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