Facilitating vs. Teaching vs. Lecturing

Most presenters spend a disproportionate amount of their time learning the content they’ll be communicating, instead of how they’ll be communicating it.

Want you to facilitation as a powerful wand

that in well-trained hands can achieve wonderful, healthy, positive outcomes;

and that in untrained hands can lead to

disaster and pain.

You, like us believe that facilitation is important, or you wouldn’t be here.

Have you ever taken a class because of the presenter instead of the subject?

Tell us about it.

What is the primary goal of your digital presentation?

What is your role during the digital presentation?

I learn best when…
What is your takeaway?

What do you know about learning?

What is learning?

How do infants learn?

When I say the word teaching, what comes to your mind?

Most presentations are designed with a focus on the subject matter expert as the teacher.

The goal is to share as much as possible in the designated time.

This is teacher- or expert-centric presentations.

The presenter designs the presentation with how to deliver the content. It is not designed with how the audience, the participant, the learner naturally learns it.

When I say lecturing, what comes to your mind?

Most classes and workshops use the traditional method of an expert telling an audience what they know.

Telling isn’t learning.

What comes to your mind when I say facilitating?

Facilitating is a style of engaging others toward a goal. We generally assume that goal is learning.

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• learning content and knowledge,
• learning about oneself and others, or
• unlearning

There are two key roles during facilitation. What do you think they are?

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• The Facilitator
• The Participants

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