Facilitators

What Makes a Good Facilitator?

Competent facilitators have both personal characteristics and developed skills that make them good at what they do.  Many good facilitators make a difficult process seem very natural and intuitive. Facilitators conducting sense making exercises should have a sound knowledge of bias and the impact it has on sense making exercises. Listed below are some key characteristics of good facilitators.

• Good facilitators value people and their ideas
• Good facilitators think quickly and logically
• Good facilitators are excellent communicators