Facilitating Effective Reviews

A facilitation skills workshop presented by 

Roger Greenaway, Reviewing Skills Training

Amongst the challenges for effective reviewing are:

• Choosing reviewing techniques that keep everyone fully involved in learning.

• Quickly finding what is worth reviewing in greater depth and detail.

• Building a climate for learning from each other and from work experience.

During the workshop you will:

• Learn how to use the active reviewing cycle

• Practise a variety of stimulating and effective reviewing methods

• Design a reviewing session for a project, team or service review in your place of work.

On finishing the workshop you will be able to:

• Use a selection of reviewing tools for maximising learning in group settings.

• Use appropriate sequencing when facilitating reviews.

• Use techniques that develop all learning styles.

Session 1: Active Reviewing

The Benefits of Reviewing and the Benefits of Active Reviewing.

Attending to success: Brief Encounters (sharing success); Activity Map (sharing values)

Attending to the environment (physical and human): Observation Project (awareness raising)

Attending to process: real time feedback using Sliding Cards or Goal Keepers

Attending to outcomes: Objective Lines (moving forwards by looking backwards)

Session 2: The Active Reviewing Cycle

This cycle provides a bridge between experiential learning theory and practical reviewing skills. After a short interactive presentation, you will be invited to travel round the cycle using a variety of reviewing tools such as Sequenced Questions, Pictures, Maps, Charts, Rounds or Replays.

Review of session using Questions for Success

Session 3: Playing the Joker: exploring alternative models

Every way of seeing is also a way of not seeing. The Joker reminds us of other perspectives.

Intuitive Reviewing: The Missing Person (for team development)

Reviewing for Development: a template for achieving developmental goals.

Designing a reviewing session for a project, team or service review in your place of work.

Session 4: The Future: different ways of getting there

Seeing is Believing: Dream Drawing

Moving Bodies, Moving Minds: Horseshoe

Scaling up Force Field Analysis and experiencing it using Future Walking

Turntable Discussion: Optimists versus Pessimists or Poems versus Plans

Making Learning Stick or Making Learning Sticky? (planning and networking)