Episode 31: It’s time to stop recreating content: How to be a more productive facilitator with Sally Foley-Lewis

Listen to this episode from First Time Facilitator on Spotify. When you're asked to deliver another workshop, do you find you're having to recreate content, or dig around different folders, trying to find that one slide or activity that worked really well all those years ago? This happens to me.

When you're asked to deliver another workshop, do you find you’re having to recreate content, or dig around different folders, trying to find that one slide or activity that worked really well all those years ago? This happens to me. It drives me crazy. I wish I had a better way, or system to store these resources.

If you listen in our guest today, Sally Foley-Lewis has a solution for you.

Sally is obsessed with productive leadership, helping dedicated professionals (like you), achieve more, reduce your stress and take back two hours per day! 

Listen in to her when I ask about her tips on how she embeds learning on her workshop.

In this episode you’ll learn:

  • Valuable and time-saving hacks for first-time facilitators

  • Coping mechanism on dealing with feedback

  • The three big elements of productivity: personal productivity, professional productivity and people productivity.

  • Essential questions you need to to ask yourself before standing in front of your audience.

  • Skills needed as a first-time facilitator.

About our guest

Sally Foley-Lewis is a dynamic and interactive presenter, MC, and much sought after facilitator and executive coach. Blending 20+ years of working with a diverse range of people and industries, in Germany, the UAE, Asia, and even outback Australia, with exceptional qualifications; a wicked sense of humour and an ability to make people feel at ease, she’s your first choice for mastering skills and achieving results. Obsessed with productive leadership, Sally helps you achieve more, reduce stress and take back two hours per day!

She has written three books, her latest is The Productive Leader and she gives presentations and runs workshops to help people become Productive Leaders. Sally's clients rave about her because she leaves the audience equipped to take immediate positive action.

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Quotes of the show:

  • “The goods are good; don't devalue good. It's good and that's a positive word.”

  • “I think for facilitators, it's being okay to play, be flexible and adaptive and to continue trying to work things out because your audience wants to get it".

  • “The more content you shove in; the more shallow you're going to be. I think that's that balancing act that makes it very hard for facilitators sometimes.”

Transcript

View the transcript of my conversation with Sally Foley-Lewis.

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