Facilitation Lab Podcast
171 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago -Welcome to the Facilitation Lab Podcast, where Douglas Ferguson, founder of facilitation academy Voltage Control, speaks with Voltage Control Certification Alumni and other facilitation experts about the remarkable impact they’re making. These discussions embrace a method-agnostic approach, so you can enjoy a wide range of topics and perspectives as we examine all the nuances of enabling meaningful group experiences.
This series is dedicated to helping you navigate the realities of facilitating collaboration, ensuring every session you lead becomes truly transformative. If you’d like to join a live session sometime, you can join our Facilitation Lab Community. It’s an ideal space to apply what you learn in the podcast in real time with peers. Sign up today at voltagecontrol.com/facilitation-lab.
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Alexandra Jamieson: Why it’s Okay to go to Bed Angry
September 22, 2020 14:00 - 40 minutes - 23.3 MB“We are both in this radical honesty together where...we have a structure that's going to hold us as we evolve and change together and as individuals...I witnessed that many people don't feel safe to evolve and change and be themselves. So if you can't change with the people around you, I don't know that you are allowing yourself to change.” Alexandra Jamieson Today, I’m excited to speak with Alexandra Jamieson of Super Size Me fame. For two decades, Alexandra has worked professionally as ...
Why it’s Okay to go to Bed Angry
September 22, 2020 14:00 - 40 minutes - 23.3 MB“We are both in this radical honesty together where...we have a structure that's going to hold us as we evolve and change together and as individuals...I witnessed that many people don't feel safe to evolve and change and be themselves. So if you can't change with the people around you, I don't know that you are allowing yourself to change.” Alexandra Jamieson Today, I’m excited to speak with Alexandra Jamieson of Super Size Me fame. For two decades, Alexandra has worked professionally as ...
What Distinguishes a A Great Facilitator with Michael Wilkinson
September 15, 2020 07:00 - 52 minutes - 29.9 MB“Whoever said, do what you love, the money will come, they got that right. Lots of work, mind you, in between. As we like to say, your passions determine your purpose. But it's your decisions that determine your destiny.” - Michael Wilkinson I’m pleased to have Michael Wilkinson here with me today for Episode 9 of the Control the Room Podcast. Michael is the CEO and Managing Director of Leadership Strategies, the largest provider of professional facilitation in the country. Michael, who ...
Michael Wilkinson: What Distinguishes a A Great Facilitator
September 15, 2020 07:00 - 52 minutes - 29.9 MB“Whoever said, do what you love, the money will come, they got that right. Lots of work, mind you, in between. As we like to say, your passions determine your purpose. But it's your decisions that determine your destiny.” - Michael Wilkinson I’m pleased to have Michael Wilkinson here with me today for Episode 9 of the Control the Room Podcast. Michael is the CEO and Managing Director of Leadership Strategies, the largest provider of professional facilitation in the country. Michael, who ...
Alison Coward: How to Fulfill Your Purpose as a Facilitator
September 08, 2020 16:00 - 39 minutes - 22.6 MB"What I found is that the workshop format is perfect for a creative team." -Alison Coward Today my guest is Alison Coward, founder of Bracket, a consulting agency that helps teams in the creative and digital industries to work better together. Alison helps organizations build highly collaborative cultures and high-performing teams. She is a strategist, workshop facilitator, coach, trainer, keynote speaker, and author of "A Pocket Guide to Effective Workshops." She works across corp...
How to Fulfill Your Purpose as a Facilitator
September 08, 2020 16:00 - 39 minutes - 22.6 MB"What I found is that the workshop format is perfect for a creative team." -Alison Coward Today my guest is Alison Coward, founder of Bracket, a consulting agency that helps teams in the creative and digital industries to work better together. Alison helps organizations build highly collaborative cultures and high-performing teams. She is a strategist, workshop facilitator, coach, trainer, keynote speaker, and author of "A Pocket Guide to Effective Workshops." She works across corp...
Lynda Baker: Concepts of Facilitation
August 25, 2020 07:00 - 44 minutes - 25.7 MB"I just started to see really smart, prolific, skilled people who shared my values." -Lynda Baker I'm excited to have Lynda Baker, IAF Certified Professional Facilitator Master, meeting leader coach, and founder and president of Meeting Solutions Online on today’s episode of Control the Room. As a certified professional facilitator, she creates collaborative client relationships, plans appropriate group processes, creates and sustains a participatory environment, and guides groups to app...
Concepts of Facilitation with Lynda Baker
August 25, 2020 07:00 - 44 minutes - 25.7 MB"I just started to see really smart, prolific, skilled people who shared my values." -Lynda Baker I'm excited to have Lynda Baker, IAF Certified Professional Facilitator Master, meeting leader coach, and founder and president of Meeting Solutions Online on today’s episode of Control the Room. As a certified professional facilitator, she creates collaborative client relationships, plans appropriate group processes, creates and sustains a participatory environment, and guides groups to app...
Energize the Life of Your Job with Karen Holst
August 12, 2020 14:00 - 41 minutes - 24 MB"I had this moment of really enjoying the launching of ideas within existing structures " -Karen Holst I'm excited to have Karen Holst with me today. She is an entrepreneur turned intrapreneur and helps companies drive product innovation as a product strategy leader. Karen has deep expertise in human-centered design strategies, creative problem-solving, and product innovation. She worked on Ex-IDEO led innovation at Autodesk, for the CA Dept. of Education and is the co-founder of MyEdu. ...
Karen Holst: Energize the Life of Your Job
August 12, 2020 14:00 - 41 minutes - 24 MB"I had this moment of really enjoying the launching of ideas within existing structures " -Karen Holst I'm excited to have Karen Holst with me today. She is an entrepreneur turned intrapreneur and helps companies drive product innovation as a product strategy leader. Karen has deep expertise in human-centered design strategies, creative problem-solving, and product innovation. She worked on Ex-IDEO led innovation at Autodesk, for the CA Dept. of Education and is the co-founder of MyEdu. ...
Harold Hardaway: How to have a "Full Circle" Moment
July 28, 2020 07:00 - 35 minutes - 20.4 MB“No one wants a boring facilitator, right? It's about being effective. It's about getting their goals accomplished. But if someone's going to be in a room with you for four to eight hours, to an extent it would be nice if you can entertain.” -Harold Hardaway I'm excited to have Harold Hardaway with me on the Control the Room podcast today. Harold is the co-founder and CEO of Cardigan, a branding and internal communications company that "Inspires Brands that Inspire Employees." Cardigan...
How to have a "Full Circle" Moment with Harold Hardaway
July 28, 2020 07:00 - 35 minutes - 20.4 MB“No one wants a boring facilitator, right? It's about being effective. It's about getting their goals accomplished. But if someone's going to be in a room with you for four to eight hours, to an extent it would be nice if you can entertain.” -Harold Hardaway I'm excited to have Harold Hardaway with me on the Control the Room podcast today. Harold is the co-founder and CEO of Cardigan, a branding and internal communications company that "Inspires Brands that Inspire Employees." Cardigan...
Sleep Patterns and their Effect on Decision-Making With Ceili Cascarano
July 21, 2020 07:00 - 34 minutes - 20 MB"I think it's about finding, as an individual, what recovery methods work for you and how you are able to carve that out in your own unique schedule." -Ceili Cascarano Sleep seems to be a perpetually tricky routine to land, and it’s one of the most important pillars of our overall health–it affects everything from our immune systems to our cognitive function. Listen in as I, your host Douglas Ferguson, discuss this and more with Ceili Cascarano on Episode 4 of the Control the Room Podcas...
Ceili Cascarano: Sleep Patterns and their Effect on Decision-Making
July 21, 2020 07:00 - 34 minutes - 20 MB"I think it's about finding, as an individual, what recovery methods work for you and how you are able to carve that out in your own unique schedule." -Ceili Cascarano Sleep seems to be a perpetually tricky routine to land, and it’s one of the most important pillars of our overall health–it affects everything from our immune systems to our cognitive function. Listen in as I, your host Douglas Ferguson, discuss this and more with Ceili Cascarano on Episode 4 of the Control the Room Podcas...
Jake Knapp: Applying Design Sprint to the Pandemic and Racism
July 07, 2020 16:00 - 49 minutes - 28.3 MB"People have been aware of racism for a long time, but I think we have all had our awareness radically heightened and our eyes open in these last few weeks." Jake Knapp I'm Douglas Ferguson, and I'm on a mission to help people everywhere have better meetings. There's clear evidence that poorly run meetings not only waste time, but they also squander a lot of money. A recent report by Doodle found that $541 billion is lost globally every year on common meeting mistakes–and that's just th...
Applying Design Sprint to the Pandemic and Racism with Jake Knapp
July 07, 2020 16:00 - 49 minutes - 28.3 MB"People have been aware of racism for a long time, but I think we have all had our awareness radically heightened and our eyes open in these last few weeks." Jake Knapp I'm Douglas Ferguson, and I'm on a mission to help people everywhere have better meetings. There's clear evidence that poorly run meetings not only waste time, but they also squander a lot of money. A recent report by Doodle found that $541 billion is lost globally every year on common meeting mistakes–and that's just th...
Conversation Design and Compartmentalism with John Fitch
June 16, 2020 07:00 - 47 minutes - 27.2 MB"I've read a lot into behavioral psychology, and one thing that is appreciated across the board regardless of the therapist or psychologist is that you change the environment, you change the behavior." John Fitch I'm Douglas Ferguson, and I'm on a mission to help people everywhere have better meetings. There's clear evidence that poorly run meetings not only waste time, but they also squander a lot of money. A recent report by Doodle found that $541 billion is lost globally every year o...
John Fitch: Conversation Design and Compartmentalism
June 16, 2020 07:00 - 47 minutes - 27.2 MB"I've read a lot into behavioral psychology, and one thing that is appreciated across the board regardless of the therapist or psychologist is that you change the environment, you change the behavior." John Fitch I'm Douglas Ferguson, and I'm on a mission to help people everywhere have better meetings. There's clear evidence that poorly run meetings not only waste time, but they also squander a lot of money. A recent report by Doodle found that $541 billion is lost globally every year o...
Daniel Stillman: Design Thinking in a Virtual World
May 12, 2020 07:00 - 47 minutes - 27.5 MBHave you ever wondered what it means to be a professional conversation designer? Listen as your host Douglas Ferguson and his guest Daniel Stillman, the founder of the Conversation Factory and a master facilitator, discuss what it means to be a conversation designer and much more in this episode of the Control Room Podcast. Daniel shares how he got started as a conversation designer and why he believes that everything is an active conversation. He speaks about what he would change about me...
Design Thinking in a Virtual World with Daniel Stillman
May 12, 2020 07:00 - 47 minutes - 27.5 MBHave you ever wondered what it means to be a professional conversation designer? Listen as your host Douglas Ferguson and his guest Daniel Stillman, the founder of the Conversation Factory and a master facilitator, discuss what it means to be a conversation designer and much more in this episode of the Control Room Podcast. Daniel shares how he got started as a conversation designer and why he believes that everything is an active conversation. He speaks about what he would change about me...