Episode 9: The three minute rule of group facilitation with Cherelle Witney

Listen to this episode from First Time Facilitator on Spotify. In this First Time Facilitator podcast episode, facilitator, entrepreneur and inventor Cherelle Witney shares how a diverse career spanning legal, health and tourism has helped her confidently deliver workshops to thousands of participants.

In this First Time Facilitator podcast episode, facilitator, entrepreneur and inventor Cherelle Witney shares how a diverse career spanning legal, health and tourism has helped her confidently deliver workshops to thousands of participants.

In this episode you’ll learn:

  • How to create a safe environment (hint: It’s all about being yourself)

  • Why you only have three minutes to create a trusting space with your group

  • Why it’s important to set ground rules for the workshop

  • Why you need a Mary Poppins bag full of stuff

  • The #1 nightmare of all facilitators (and how to manage it)

About our guest

Cherelle Witney is the Founder of LIFT Performance Solutions, Leadership trainer and coach.

She believes that being curious to learn and willing to welcome shared learning keeps us positively energised & connected throughout our work and our life.  Her aim is to be a facilitator that inspires her participants with diverse real experience & insights that makes learning practical and fun!

On the Belbin profile she’s a Specialist, Plant, Shaper which means she likes detail, to be up to date with facts, theories and practices. loves ideas, innovative thinking and “what if….” questions.

Over the last 18+ years, her career has included work as a senior manager & leader, internal trainer/facilitator and professional coach in a variety of private and public organisations with 7 years in public health and 6 years in law.

Her facilitation work uses a variety of tools from brainstorming to framing to open space and journey maps to assist strategic planning processes, creation of organisational learning & development plans, effective process improvement pathways and change engagement strategies in organisations of 12 to 1200 people.

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