Episode 39: Discover your facilitator zone of genius (and monetise your facilitation skills) with Sarah McVanel
Sarah McVanel is a recognition expert, author, an experienced and dynamic speaker and coach. She helps leaders leverage the exponential power of recognition to retain top talent and sustain healthy bottom-lines. She helps organisations by curating healthy workplace cultures through her FROG methodology (Forever Recognize Others' Greatness), as well as through speaking, training, coaching and mentoring others.
Her philosophy is that once we rediscover that understanding of our own greatness, we can use it to recognize that greatness all around us and improve ourselves, our workplace and the organization’s bottom line.Sarah also helps intrapreneurs to shake off the golden handcuffs, like she did, and launch successful six to seven figure businesses they love.
In this episode you’ll learn:
Tips on how to magnify your own greatness as a facilitator
Her thoughts on being a generalist vs being an expert in one field
How to monetise your skills as a facilitator and steps to develop your side hustle
How external consultants can help internal presenters when used in organisations
The impact of recognition in an organisation (and how the FROG model helps)
About our guest
Sarah McVanel is a recognition expert based in Ontario, Canada. She holds a Master’s Degree in Family Therapy and research, as well as an Honours BA in Psychology. She has excelled in the field of organisational development, training, and communications for over 15 years. She offers the business evidence to back up how recognizing greatness in ourselves and others is key to sustained business success through improved morale, increased top talent retention, and generating a positive corporate culture.
Her book "Forever Recognize Others Greatness: Solution Focused Strategies to Satisfied Staff, High Performing Teams and Healthy Bottom Lines" and other practical tools leave audiences with the process and insights needed to take action and make a positive difference.
Sarah McVanel has inspired, challenged, and focused her audiences, leaving them with a powerful new understanding of their work, their colleagues and their lives!
A gift for First Time Facilitator listeners
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Quotes of the show:
“If you have one core area of expertise then you don't have to be up on the literature in a hundred different places.”
“Your amazingness as a facilitator; that goes with you, no matter your area of expertise.”
“No organisation has enough bank (even Google) to have people around who are not fulfilling an important function.”
“There's no one straight way to becoming a facilitator - I think we can be proud of that because that's how we bring our genius and our authentic greatness to whatever group were working with. It’s a combination of all of our unique experiences.”
Episode transcript
View the episode transcript of my conversation with Sarah McVanel.