The Ultimate Guide to Become a Great Facilitator

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Becoming a great facilitator is one of the key factors of your idea/project's success. Effective facilitation not only provides you methods and skills to plan and implement a dialogue activity (event, workshop, training, conference, online meeting, etc.) but also assists you in inspiring others around you, building your tribe and getting powerful partners and networks.     
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Learn how to build an effective facilitation process to make visible the attitudes, interests and needs of youth, to strengthen your participation on all political levels, and to impact the political decision-making.  
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Explore how to clarify your vision and mission, to which conditions you should pay attention and how to get in contact with relevant people. Study numerous methods for getting started, methods for exchanging opinions, experiences and ideas and methods for reflecting and moving forward. Understand what we consider to be useful in terms of caring for results and follow-ups.
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Additional, the playlist 'The Ultimate Guide to Become a Great Facilitator' is a great opportunity to learn about the EU Youth Dialogue, which is the dialogue with young people and youth organisations involving policy and decision-makers, as well as experts, researchers and other relevant civil society actors. The dialogue aims to support continuous joint reflection and consultation on the priorities, implementation and follow-up of European cooperation in the field of youth. Furthermore, the playlist supports you to create an activity and run a youth dialogue on the topic of your interest (for instance, Mental health, Sustainability, Participation, Non-formal learning and Inclusion).
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@The playlist 'The Ultimate Guide to Become a Great Facilitator' has been inspired and created on the basis of the 'Toolbox: Dialogue activities to implement the Youth Goals together' (Natalie Lehner and Martin Kitzberger, youth-goals.eu, © 2020 Youth Goals Lab). 

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Your goals vs. Youth Goals: You are not alone!

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45 minuten

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Time to Plan

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1 uur

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Facilitation 101

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30 minuten

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Methods for youth dialogue

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1 uur 30 minuten

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Making sense of the results and follow up

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30 minuten

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Capturing results of your activity will help clarify your own thinking and also provides a record that can be used in the future. It offers your participants information and recollection of the common work. And people who did not participate can inform themselves about your activity. Recording on the go will help everyone to keep track. It is important to calculate sufficient resources for the recording. Your results and their recording should always correspond to the aim you want to achieve with your activity. Therefore, when choosing your methods, you should already think about whether you need a certain type of recording.
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The results of your dialogue activity may be of diverse nature and consist of concrete tangible results as well as of intangible results like skills and experiences that project organisers and participants have acquired. 
Remember that results can be recorded in different ways – consider interactive methods for documenting results: You can use flipcharts and markers, but also collages, photos, videos, etc. Intangible results are often more difficult to measure.
The use of polls, questionnaires, observations or self-assessment mechanisms may help to record this type of  result.
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Tangible results may include.
Approaches or models to solve a problem
Practical tools or products
Reports
Studies
Good practice guides
Case studies
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Intangible results may include:
New knowledge and experience
Increasing skills or achievements
Increasing awareness and understanding
Fostering civic engagement
Setting impulses
Generate multipliers
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Make your results accessible, to…
show appreciation. Many people have invested time and energy in your result.
enhance continuous workflow. This allows the participants to remember important information.
encourage participants to share with others what they have gained from taking part in the dialogue activity.
engage stakeholders, key actors and target groups.
influence policy and practice.
share solutions and know how.
enable others to benefit from your work and your experiences.
raise awareness and external recognition of the work.
raise impact.
create new opportunities to extend the project- and develop new partnerships for the future.
inspire others by showing what is possible.
raise the profile of your organisation.
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Hulpmiddelen

Youth Goals Toolbox - Dialogue activities

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The holder of this badge has been working on his/her skills on how to capture the results of an activity, record them and use them for adaptation of the future steps.
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This badge is part of the Youth Goals and the EU Youth Dialogue, which are a part of the EU Youth Strategy 2019–2027, which sets the direction of common youth policy throughout the EU. 
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The holder of this badge has worked independently at awareness/understanding/action at the importance of the skills on how to analyze the results of an youth dialogue, what method to use to record the results and use them for adaptation of the future steps.
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How the holder of this badge worked on these skills can be seen in the evidence in this badge. International youth workers have assessed the completed tasks.

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Earlier we discussed that the results of your dialogue activity may be of diverse nature and consist of concrete tangible results as well as of intangible results. Let's look at the following exercise and classify results we are given as tangible or intangible.  
Exercise 1. Classifying Results as Tangible or Intangible.
Imagine, you have started your own project and want to get new partners and important stakeholders to expand your idea in the next year. Your audience has asked you to prepare a result sheet, and you are having trouble classifying the results properly. Sort through the list below and note the results that are tangible and those that are intangible:
Infograph with outcomes of the project;
Copyrights for the methodolody you invented;
The guideline of the methodology you invented'  
Trust and commitment generated by the team dynamics;
Case studies and success stories of the project participants;
Knowledge and experience in the field of the projects;
The final project report;
Skills and understanding of the problem you are dealing with. 
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Share your answers.   

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Bewijs bevestigd door: één activiteitenorganisator

How can you measure the intangible results? 

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