For the original list, see You know you're a group facilitator if.
You know you’re a group facilitator if …
- no one understands what you do for a living.
- you want to write it on the wall.
- group members admire your wide selection of different sized, shaped and colored post-its.
- your phone's photo gallery of family snaps and selfies is interspersed with flip charts, white boards, lists, and mind maps.
- your 3-year old says “no no no daddy/mommy, stop facilitating me!”
- you can argue the merits of blu-tack over white-tack.
- you choose the boring supportive flats rather than the heels or boots that really match your outfit.
- you know how to remove permanent marker mistakenly used on a client’s whiteboard.
- you amaze the room by taking session notes on what look like white garbage bags that stick to the wall by static electricity.
- you maintain an inventory of different colored sticky dots so you won’t run out of any colors.
- you ask people, like at the grocery store, if they want feedback.
- you have a flipchart stand in your living room.
- The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is your favorite book. (Don’t Panic!)
- you arrive early so you have sufficient time to move around the tables and chairs.
- someone comes up to you and asks, “Have you considered using small groups and an ice-breaker,” and politely you say, “Thank you; I’ll consider that.”
- you are in a really awful meeting and have to sit on your hands to avoid taking over.
- you walk into a room that has been set up for you and the chairs and tables are classroom style – and you don’t groan because you anticipated this.
- you know how to set up just about every type of flip chart known to man.
- tears fill your eyes and you feel so understood when a new client says, “I know it is just a one-day session, but this is so important we expect we will need you for at least three days of preparation.”
- you're thinking that there should be a better process for collaboratively arriving at a “top ten” list.
Omg, you nailed my lifr...AND, since you know me, you knew that. I think of you every time I hand out the IAS statement of values and ethics. Miss seeing you in person! Big hug.
ReplyDeletedarn, I can't seem to write unless its with a marker. Sorry about the typos. ^life. ^IAFI
ReplyDeleteTypos excused. And it's nice to see that the the top scoring results in the "serious" list all came from the Statement of Values and Ethics. I hope we'll reconnect before long.
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