So, you’ve started to grasp parts of what facilitation is about. Now the question stands: How do I become a facilitator? First off, there is no right of passage or a board of facilitators that will give you a badge and say: “You are now a facilitator!” Here’s part of my journey and what I believe helped me gain the…

For the past few months I was placed in a so called reverse mentorship. This was a person who was older & had more work experience than me and I was to be their mentor. And did I learn a lot! And so did she! I believe many see mentorships as…

Lately I’ve realised the need to clarify the differences between a project manager and a facilitator with clients and individuals who have come to see the potential of bringing in facilitators. Therefore I thought we could take a quick look at the two roles and also introduce a model to…

A bonus here, a raise there. Or maybe we should use fear instead? The classical carrot vs whip dilemma to either increase efficiency or lower the turnover rates. There are a lot research papers showing that employees are engaged somewhere from 17–35%. I find that a bit scary. Extrinsic motivators…

One of the core fundamentals for any facilitator is the ability to listen; an ability I would strongly argue is a core fundamental for anybody working with people. When was the last time somebody actually listened to what you had to say? Many studies show that we only pick up 25–50%…

These past months I’ve had the opportunity to explore creativity through concept development, facilitating ideation session and rapidly prototyping in a relatively safe environment. I’ve been studying at the Digital Business program at Hyper Island and if you’re not familiar with the school then I’ll give you a little short…

A new journey arises for me this fall and hopefully a new one on here. I’ve been scouring Medium for a while and found a lot of speculations, absolutes & reflections. Absolutes scare me as I believe in constant change, speculations tend to bore me and reflections makes me want…