Chapter 4. The Art of Facilitation

What’s Inside This Chapter

Here, you’ll see how to:

  • Develop your role as a facilitator

  • Incorporate facilitation skills into your presentation

  • Determine whether to ask questions

  • Ask the right kinds of questions to get your audience to participate

  • Conduct a question-and-answer session

  • Make the transition from one subject to another

  • Use the most effective facilitation techniques to enhance your presentation

  • Decide when and how to use humor in your presentation

If you’ve ever participated in any group workshop experience, you are probably familiar with the term facilitation. Sometimes presenters speak about “facilitating ...

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