Designing learning (and especially workshops) that can be picked up and run by someone else isn't always easy. In this episode, we discuss some common mistakes and what we can do as designers to create a great session that meets the client brief, includes the facilitator and delivers a great learning experience.

00:50 Why is designing for facilitators important?

03:08 Planning versus Designing

04:28 What can go wrong when we don’t think about the facilitator

05:57 Sometimes trainers don’t like using other people’s design

07:27 The recipe analogy

08:07 Giving facilitators flexibility

08:56 More reasons to design in detail

11:41 What we need to do differently -- more detail

12:03 What we need to do differently -- signposting

12:56 What we need to do differently -- explaining the reasons

13:38 What we need to do differently -- specialist skills

14:28 What we need to do differently -- give alternatives where possible

15:21 Take care with broken links when editing

16:00 Helping facilitators with their expectations of the group

16:36 Making things easier for the facilitator

17:19 Benefits for the facilitator

19:00 Are facilitators always good at design?

21:01 The 80/20 rule in following session plans

22:12 Summary tips for making the facilitator-designer relationship work

24:19 Including all the info on models and tools

25:33 Terry’s takeaways for designing for facilitators

27:02 Involve the facilitators

27:16 It’s going to take longer

28:36 Terry’s mini-topic: Using models that have been around a long time

29:56 Balancing the old and the new in practice

33:58 Who we are and getting in touch

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