How to become a better facilitator
Read on to find out, as Martin shares his thoughts on the best way of developing facilitation skills…If you’d like to improve your facilitation skills, it’s a...
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Developing others' soft skills can be hard: why?
By Martin Thompson, MTa Founder For over 30 years I’ve been working in Organisational Development working with 1000s of trainers worldwide. During 1:1...
The Lego Challenge team-building exercise: harness the power of play
Who’d have thought that playing with Lego could teach communication, collaboration, and teamwork? If you’ve ever been involved in a corporate team building...
Bring Insights Discovery to life with MTa experiential activities
Part of our series on bringing theories to life with experiential learning. Read the rest here. With more than 9 million profiles generated and over 12,000...
How to engage people in learning
Performance improvement involves people thinking critically about the topic in hand, and through this thought and discussion, drawing and implementing...
Experiential Learning Case Study – Team and Leadership Activities
5P’s are one of Portugal’s leading providers of team building activities and events for group sizes of 10 to 300+. They requested a bespoke facilitator...
Shearing sheep and facilitating experiential learning are similar. Why?
I spent a couple of days working in a shearing shed recently, as a helper not a shearer I hasten to add. At first sight, the contrast between shearing sheep...
Planning: the key to effective facilitation or a recipe for disaster?
The lesson of the 5 P’s, ‘Poor Planning Provides Poor Performance’ often resounds around training rooms. It’s not surprising that the importance of effective...
How to encourage learning and development, lessons from parenthood!
As a parent I wanted my children to make ‘best use’ of their potential. I had over 30 more years of experience in this world than them: 30 years of learning to...
St Johns Deaf School Deaf Awareness Day
St John’s Deaf School is one of only two oral deaf schools in the UK. Pupils are taught by specialist teachers of hearing impaired children. There is great...
What is facilitation?
Ask someone to define facilitation though, whether they’re a facilitator or a client of facilitation, and you’ll be met with a wide range of answers. Some...