facilitationskills

Meet Douglas Ferguson, the President of Voltage Control, a facilitation academy that helps leaders and teams develop the skills they need to facilitate transformative meetings, drive collaboration, and inspire innovation. He is also the host of the podcast 'Control the Room.' Early in his career, Douglas became a leader and realized that effective leadership involves understanding what team members need to be engaged, perform well, and enjoy their work. His passion for this mission led him to establish Voltage Control. He has helped transform leaders, innovators, and creatives from Nike, U.S. SOCOM, Google, the Air Force, Gap, Tesla, MSU, Church & Dwight, Apple, Adobe, Dropbox, Fidelity, Vrbo, Liberty Mutual, Humana, and SAIC. In this episode, you'll discover: 👉🏻 Douglas's background and his dedication to helping teams thrive. 👉🏻 How his personal journey led him to embrace facilitation, 👉🏻 The way Voltage Control combines various facilitation styles and approaches. 👉🏻 The increasing recognition among companies about the value of facilitators. 👉🏻 How complex the challenge of meetings is and how to help companies to build new habits

If you're a facilitator or aspiring to be one, you've come to the right place. Today, we have a special guest with us, Rachel Davis, who is a Workshop Experience Designer and an expert in guiding facilitators to develop their skills and competencies. Rachel's journey into facilitation and workshop design is nothing short of inspiring. After years of experience as a facilitator, she decided to pursue her passion full-time and became a Workshop Experience Designer. In this episode, Rachel shares with us some of the tricks, tools, and platforms she uses for herself and how she helps other facilitators to deepen their skills. We also dive into her passion project as a Community Curator of Butter. One of the fascinating things Rachel talks about is her love for card decks. She uses them for inspiration in designing her workshops and collecting ideas for her swipe files. If you're looking to take your facilitation skills to the next level, this episode is a must-listen. Rachel's expertise and insights will give you the inspiration and guidance in your role as a facilitator. So, tune in and join us on this exciting journey of facilitation and workshop experience design. Don't forget to leave your comments on your podcast app or on my linkedin profile **CONTACT - LA WORKSHOPPEUSE / Nathy Ravez** 🙏🏻 Share with me your thoughts about this episode or what you would like to hear in this podcast.Feeling inspired by the conversation in this episode? We can have our own and you could also be the next podcast guest if you wish to :) Email me at : [podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com](mailto:podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com) **Nathy Ravez** - La Workshoppeuse Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez) Book a 30 min free Call: [https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa](https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa) **LINK- Guest** Rachel Davis - Bento: [https://bento.me/rachdavis](https://bento.me/rachdavis) - LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachdavis/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachdavis/) - Website: [https://www.rachdavis.com/](https://www.rachdavis.com/) - Medium: [https://medium.com/rachdavis](https://medium.com/rachdavis) Next Miro Board Improv Event : [https://lu.ma/april-miro-improv](https://lu.ma/april-miro-improv)

**WRAP-UP** Isn't it the most beautiful job in the world to enable people to play? Talking about that: Don't we forget to play when we grow up, even though it is the most normal thing in the world when we are children? I go even further: it would be disturbing if a child could not play. So what happens to our creativity if we don't give it the space it needs? Today I welcome Manuel Grassler, a playful thinker, a playpreneur. His mission is bringing playful methodologies into the business environment and helping people solve complex problems with a playful manner. Manuel is a workshop facilitator and trainer for methods such as lego serious play, playmobil pro or card-based tools, among others. In this episode you will learn - What the difference is between game and play - How a facilitator can bring his participant to adopt a playful thinking - What the benefits are of such an experience for the participant? **CONTACT - LA WORKSHOPPEUSE / Nathy Ravez** 🙏🏻 Share with me your thoughts about this episode or what you would like to hear in this podcast.Feeling inspired by the conversation in this episode? We can have our own and you could also be the next podcast guest if you wish to :) Email me at : [podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com](mailto:podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com) **Nathy Ravez** - La Workshoppeuse Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez) Book a 30 min free Call: [https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa](https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa) **LINK- Guest** Manuel Grassler **Linkedin profile:**[https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgrassler/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgrassler/) **Webside:** [https://manuelgrassler.com](https://manuelgrassler.com/) ****LSP® Playing Cards Business Edition English :**** ********[https://manuelgrassler.com/product/lsp-playing-cards-business-edition/](https://manuelgrassler.com/product/lsp-playing-cards-business-edition/) **Reference Book**: James Carse „Finite and Infinite Games“ Simon Sinek “ The infinite Game”

In this new episode, I talk to the lovely Rebecca Courtney. She is a facilitation coach at AJ&Smart, whose CEO is no other than her brother Jonathan. She is currently working on a new facilitation course which will be launched in December and has an interesting background, having started her career in education as a teacher. I first met Rebecca online, as she facilitates the bi-weekly Master Workshopper programme community calls, and I also had the chance to meet her personally in Italy at the exclusive event organized by AJ&smart in Italy. In this episode, we talk about the following. 👉🏻 Her background as a teacher and how she stepped out of her comfort zone to take on a new challenge as a facilitation coach. 👉🏻 Her role as a facilitator for Workshopper Master community calls. 👉🏻 How she suddenly started to love the research work (which she didn't like that much in the past) for the preparation of the new facilitation course, which AJ&Smart will launch by the end of the year. 👉🏻 And how her first workshop went in front of 50 highly skilled facilitators and her learnings from that experience. *********************************** I hope you’ll enjoy this new episode 😃 👍🏻 To not miss the next episode, subscribe to the show via your podcast player. 🙏🏻 Share with me your thoughts about this episode Feeling inspired by the conversation in this episode? We can have our own and you could also be the next podcast guest if you wish to :) Email me at : [podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com](mailto:podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com) --- **LINK** **Nathy Ravez** - La Workshoppeuse Email: [podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com](mailto:podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com) Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez) Book a 30 min free Call: [https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa](https://doodle.com/bp/nathyravez/free-call-30-min) Coming soon : [www.laworkshoppeuse.com](http://www.laworkshoppeuse.com/) **Rebecca Courtney** - Facilitation Coach Linkedin profile:[https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-courtney-928347241/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-courtney-928347241/) **AJ&Smart**: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/aj&smart/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aj&smart/) [https://www.instagram.com/ajsmartdesign/](https://www.instagram.com/ajsmartdesign/) *********************************** I hope you’ll enjoy this new episode 😃 👍🏻 To not miss the next episode, subscribe to the show via your podcast player. 🙏🏻 Share with me your thoughts about this episode Feeling inspired by the conversation in this episode? We can have our own and you could also be the next podcast guest if you wish to :) Email me at : [podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com](mailto:podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com) --- **LINK** **Nathy Ravez** - La Workshoppeuse Email: [podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com](mailto:podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com) Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez) Book a 30 min free Call: [https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa](https://doodle.com/bp/nathyravez/free-call-30-min) Coming soon : [www.laworkshoppeuse.com](http://www.laworkshoppeuse.com/) Rebecca Courtney - Facilitation Coach Linkedin profile:[https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-courtney-928347241/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-courtney-928347241/) AJ&Smart: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/aj&smart/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aj&smart/) [https://www.instagram.com/ajsmartdesign/](https://www.instagram.com/ajsmartdesign/)