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Episode 98: "That which you can plan is too small for you to live": 2019 reflections + 2020 planning with Leanne Hughes

We’re closing in to the end of not only a year, but a decade as well. I wanted to take some time out on today’s episode to reflect on the year, and ask some questions to help you reflect, as well as focus in on creating a delightful 2020.

Listen to this episode from First Time Facilitator on Spotify. We're closing in to the end of not only a year, but a decade as well. I wanted to take some time out on today's episode to reflect on the year, and ask some questions to help you reflect, as well as focus in on creating a delightful 2020.

We’re closing in to the end of not only a year, but a decade as well. I wanted to take some time out on today’s episode to reflect on the year, and ask some questions to help you reflect, as well as focus in on creating a delightful 2020. 

In this episode, I share some planning tips for 2020, as well as talk through specifics reflecting and planning in these three key areas:

  1. Facilitation

  2. Career + business lessons

  3. Life lessons (relationships, physical + mental health, finance)

Resources mentioned in this show

About the host: Leanne Hughes

Leanne Hughes is an international facilitator, speaker and coach who loves creating unpredictable workshop experiences, that predictably work.

She combines her experience in Marketing, with her education in Human Resources and Psychology, to help leaders create engaging everyday experiences - that are so contagious they scale across teams, functions and regions.

Leanne has facilitated leadership, onboarding and team-development workshops across Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mongolia and Singapore and believes in a strengths-centred approach to learning and development.  She has over 13 years’ of experience across a range of industries including mining, government and tourism sectors.

She’s the host of the First Time Facilitator podcast and was a finalist in the 2018 Australian Learning Impact awards for Learning Professional of the Year.

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Episode 29: Adventurous agendas and other tools you can use in your next meeting

Ever had to facilitate a strategic or planning session, or important meeting, and wanted some fresh ideas on how to do it, and how to make that agenda come to life?I recently had a fantastic opportunity to facilitate a three day annual planning meeting.

Listen to this episode from First Time Facilitator on Spotify. Ever had to facilitate a strategic or planning session, or important meeting, and wanted some fresh ideas on how to do it, and how to make that agenda come to life? I recently had a fantastic opportunity to facilitate a three day annual planning meeting.

Ever had to facilitate a strategic or planning session, or important meeting, and wanted some fresh ideas on how to do it, and how to make that agenda come to life?I recently had a fantastic opportunity to facilitate a three day annual planning meeting.  As part of my preparation, I discovered some interesting tools (and received some really useful advice), that I think listeners of the First Time Facilitator podcast could really benefit hearing about.On that note, I was thinking of creating some kind of peer-support group for First Time Facilitators, maybe a closed Facebook group, where we can start sharing these tools & getting support from each other. If that’s something you’d be interested in, let me know - you can email me - hello@firsttimefacilitator.com, or add me on LinkedIn. I think it would be really great to start leveraging the activities we’re doing around the world, and supporting each other.

In this episode you'll learn:

  • An interesting, adventurous way to present an agenda and set expectations

  • A tool you can use if the right level of detail isn't being addressed in a meeting

  • Some general facilitation advice I received from two experts

Resources mentioned in this episode:

About your host

Leanne Hughes is the host of the First Time Facilitator podcast and is based in Brisbane, Australia. She works in the field of Organisational Development. She loves to shake up expectations and create unpredictable experiences and brings over 12 years’ of experience across a variety of industries including mining, tourism, and vocational education and training and believes anyone can develop the skills to deliver engaging group workshops.

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