Everybody’s a facilitator, whether you know it or not. Three ways to learn the most human skill going

More podcast episodes online or in your favorite app. Have you ever met someone who calls themselves a facilitator? It’s not the most common job, but they’re out there. For every facilitator you meet, you’ll meet a dozen people who don’t use the title but treat it a skill they pay attention to and develop over time. And for every one of these, you’ll find a hundred people who have no real idea of what facilitation is. When they have to run a meeting they fall back on boring, stultifying time-wasters like presentations, open discussions, and brainstorms.Any gathering of 3 or more people is being actively facilitated, whether the hosts realize it or not. Whenever you’ve felt bored or disengaged in a meeting and had to sit there, that meeting was poorly facilitated. For a lot of us, ‘work is just meetings,’ so this adds up to a huge, frustrating waste of time.Poor facilitation is everywhere and it’s terrible. No amount of happy crappy from an LLM chatbot or beautiful slides from a…