Training vs Facilitation

I just completed delivering a workshop on Training vs Facilitation and I am always amazed by this exploration. However, because of my bias (which itself goes against the grain of facilitation!) a few of my participants mentioned that I was coming down hard on Trainers! And making all Trainers look bad! I realized they were right - because there are contexts where Training is more relevant than facilitation. Like technical training, product training, etc.

However I continue to think that even in these programmes, there is still a lot of room for facilitation - sometime ago I redesigned an entire Six Sigma programme containing 650 powerpoint slides into under 100 slides and mostly facilitated and the results were amazing!

Would love to hear from you what your views are!

Training vs Facilitation or "Facili-training"??

Process versus purpose

Hello everyone,

Here I go as a blogger.....hope to share all that is going on in my mind about things related to leadership, management and facilitation...stuff that I am involved in day in day out....about all that is nice and not so nice that I come across in my work as a facilitator....

This month in my sessions we've been speaking a lot about how too many of us focus on process before even identifying the purpose...so I thought I would dedicate this to an unsung hero I spotted on a narrow Bangalore road (actually all of them are!) who I think understands purpose better than many of us in the corporate world who are busy pushing the process...a self styled traffic cop who takes it upon himself to navigate traffic during the peak hours and a few kind souls give him some money while most go past benefitting from his STOP and GO but never stopping to acknowledge his work let alone rewarding him with some money... just check out the 2 contrasting pics above...