 Two weeks ago, I facilitated a 1,600-person workshop in Memphis, and today I'm about to facilitate a live facilitation training session. This is gonna be a remote session, and so far we have over 1,000 sign-ups, which means there's probably gonna be about 500 people who actually attend this evening's session. I'm gonna be teaching people a one-hour problem-solving workshop, and you're gonna get a chance to look behind the scenes on how I plan and prepare for something like this. Enjoy. Right stickies are once holding us back. Again, a not-alone exercise. Same rules, make sure that you watch your handwriting. My energy has changed a little right now. I'm a bit more focused, because it's kinda getting serious now, you know? I really need to cop on and get this done. I'm finishing off my slides. I have prepared everything. Here's what I made earlier, essentially. So I'm getting all my bits and pieces prepared, flowing through it in a linear format. Yeah, just kinda practicing it in my head. Yeah, so the only thing is to remove the values, to spend some time on the testimonials. Let's read credibility up. Perfect. The thicker the better, the bolder the better, the more contrasted the better. Otherwise, like, soon crashes down the quality. Bigger, that means all that makes a view, so much bigger. Bigger and better. Nothing. You just need to relax. You just need to hide yourself out. I don't want to age in a smart way. Okay, so basically, not only do I have to prepare for this live later for over 1,000 people at this stage, I also have to do my other day-to-day tasks. So right now, what I'm working on is trying to make a LinkedIn post. But you know what? I love it. Now, please go away. You just take, like, me first, and then take my hand, that's what I'm doing. Hey, everyone. I want to show you exactly why collaboration is broken, and I want to show you exactly where it breaks down. Salads. Food. If it's showing yellow, it's muted. Wait, why am I not doing it here? We're getting dressed, getting changed. Working, working, working. Yeah, we moved the thing. Fantastic. Put the camera from here. Yeah, we love it. Welcome, everyone. Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah. Uh-oh. There she is. Here comes the talent. Um... They're breaking it. Yeah. Why is it moved like that? Is it okay? I moved it because it was reflecting the window, and then nobody could see anything. You'll be able to have both in the same size. Every single time that we have a live stream, up until the very last second, we're still preparing, we're still setting up the tech, we're still running tests, and everyone is always freaking out, and that's exactly the emotions. That's exactly what you can feel now. Like, the tension is palpable. Look at... Look at Rebecca. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Look at the tension. Just I want to make it perfect for everyone. 19 minutes before the live stream. How are you feeling? I'm feeling good. I have, like, a nervous energy check, but it's more, like, excitement and, uh, salvation. I forgot to eat all day. Are you gonna be able to eat all that? Absolutely not. I probably, like, want this chicken and then go back and try practice while I'm doing it. I'm excited. We need to get up and go, like, Rebecca, remember you got a care screen. We did that with John last time, though. Yeah, I've just got my panties. I can never eat the four things, either. Um, yeah, you can come over sometimes. Is that a play? It is. Okay, my panties. This isn't from me, so all my notes are going to be there, too. Why is she smoking now? Dimmy! Come here. Change of plans. Rebecca. Four minutes beforehand. For the teaching part, it might be okay for them not to see my slides, and it might be better for them to see the whole screen. Yeah, okay. So, like, just, if there's anything I need to do on my slides to make that happen, stop their screen. No. So, it's not like when the sale goes, when you see the sale will come up, stop it. So, with this course, with all the books and all the information that's out there, you can develop and learn new skills. So, in our course, you're learning active listening skills. We teach you exactly what you need to know there to become a better, more successful facilitator. We teach you how to ask good questions, which is a huge skill for a facilitator to have, because you're constantly kind of drawing out the best in your participants, and you need to do that by asking good questions. Yeah, and also, you need to be really great at giving clear instructions, so that when you're explaining exercises to people that people aren't lost, they're on the same page. Also, in the course, we go really deep into how to deal with difficult participants, because this happens every single workshop you're in. There's always going to be someone in the group that's going to try to throw you off or is going to try, I suppose, like take the discussion off track. So, having these skills is definitely really important, too. But yeah, like starting out, just be interested in working with people and helping them get things done, essentially. If you have a teaching background, wow, you're basically there. Having a teaching background is amazing, because you're used to giving clear instructions, you're used to dealing with groups of difficult participants, difficult troublemakers. You have all the baseline skills already. If you're an educator, if you're already somebody like a coach, a trainer, people used to working with groups is great. Facilitation fundamentals and just, you know, leveling up your facilitation skills and becoming the best facilitator you possibly ever be. Thanks so much for listening. Peace out. Did I say peace out? Oh my God, I've never said... How are we feeling? How are you feeling? I'm feeling good. I'm just worried about the links, that's all. Did we get the links in? Should we call the bosses? We should call the bosses. That was so stressful. Oh my God! Was it okay? The vibes were amazing. People were loving it. Very, very positive. Okay, good. Start on dressing, Jonathan. Go on. Hey everyone. Day two, the aftermath of our live training session. And I'm going to show you the scene. This is what's left. So we ran the training session yesterday evening and what we normally do after a training session like this because they normally run late is we just turn everything off and leave the set in a mess. And then day two we just kind of tidy everything up and get everything organized again. But it's a big production here. As you can see a lot going on. We had such a great time with the live session last night. We all had so much fun. The energy was high. The group that we had were super engaged. So if you like kind of seeing this sort of thing, the behind the scenes footage of how we prepare and get ready for things like this then let us know in the comments. So let us know if you want to see more of this sort of stuff. Also if you want to participate in these sort of training sessions that we run then be sure to join the facilitator club community. The link to join is in the description below as you can hear my voice is gone by the end of completely gone. But yeah, there's still so much fun. Anyway, that's all from me. I will see you all soon. Bye.