User:Wikirandy/FacilitationPro Training

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Facilitation Pro Training

enter Topic info as a Question?
always use the links on the application to move back and forth, not the refresh button on your browser
number the topics with 10, 20, 30, to allow for reordering, etc.
change the Topic Mode to be the Group Chat Mode
Click on the Enter Box, and then that makes NO Link - i.e., creating inactive links
sneak way in: on the Facilitator's screen is to click on the flipchart... you can get in... (and change the topic mode as Group Chat (you can then see the group chatty icon - for orientation of the Facilitator)
Pencil - Editing
Flipchart - Working on the Flipchart
Creating the Question / Opportunity for Reprhasing
- Before we let our participants loose on the Question - ask it, answer it before the participants do (leave at least one (1) good answer in the question:
You may rephrase the question - Caveat: don't lead the participants down one path, because you're guiding...
- test the question
- modelling the answer - type of info you need, and the detail you require
An Agenda Topic = Flipchart
ALWAYS PRESS "SAVE & REFRESH" -
- the flipchart will update when you add an idea; add a comment or "save and refresh"

(default is the way the participants see it)

decide in ADVANCE how you want to Vote
Select the Method of Voting
- Custom - Express 100 Point Sliding Scale
as an organization - Intersol - could create some profiles, and make them available to everyone in Facilitate Express
then click on distribute ballots button

(screenshot by screenshot in books pp. 41 and 42 - ONCE YOU HAVE DISTRIBUTED THE BALLOTS, LOOK FOR 'SUCCESS'

MAKE SURE THE TOPIC IS CHANGED - FROM BRAINSTORM TO VOTE IN MINI CONTROL PANE.
- when ready, click "Save and Enter"
- do you want to keep the marked up ballots - most time, you will want you to consciously delete.
- AN EXCEPTION: PRE-TEST QUESTIONS - you may want to save pre-test questions.... and responses (votes)
(: As a Facilitator, Do Not Press Save & Submit -- instead CHANGE THE MODE (usually, the results graph mode)
- Click Tabulate Data - in most cases