Episode 105: Legendary learning + the facilitation percentage game with Juan Daniel Sobrado
Here’s a question for you. Think about the last workshop you delivered. If you had to use a ratio, how much time did you spend speaking, explaining, emphasising vs the group speaking, sharing, contributing?
That’s a great reflection question, isn’t it?
I can’t claim it. It’s question that led today’s guest into becoming more curious about how to create interactive, engaging workshop experiences.
His name is Juan Daniel Sobrado (otherwise known as Juanda) and he's based in Madrid, Spain. If you’re in the Flipchart, you might recognise his name - he’s such a wonderful contributor to the group, providing helpful and innovative responses to questions from other facilitators in the group.
Legendary Learning is a resource managed by Juan Daniel Sobrado, helping to share ideas and tips to design and carry out more effective, participatory and fun training courses.
In this episode I chat with Juanda about how we can deliver the x-factor during training sessions and presentations.
About today's guest: Juan Daniel Sobrado
Juanda started working as a bioengineer at Medtronic, one of the largest implantable medical device companies worldwide.
He was growing professionally and he knew the world of sales and marketing. Juanda liked it so much that he trained in ESIC about marketing applied to the medical industry. He began to manage the marketing and sales of neuronavigators, intraoperative imaging systems (CT and resonances that are installed in the operating room) and surgical robots. This is what Juan does during the day.
At night, he hosts the Learning Legandario podcast (Spanish) and creates wonderful resources for learning and development on his website of the same name.
When he started working years ago, he mistakenly associated training with presenting. For a long time. he trained on how to design better presentations, how to choose words to connect audience and how to perform memorably on stage.
It was in 2012 when he discovered new ways to train and deliver workshops and realised he had to improve. He realised that there was life beyond PowerPoint. He learned to design participatory courses, and how he could get more effective training by making participants learn while having fun. That was when he promised not to deliver any more boring training sessions again.
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