Fun Facilitator Gifts

If-you're-happy-and-you-know-it hour.

"Thanks again. You've got a great house and a fun care provider."

"Shall we start with an icebreaker?"

Gracie goes to get cookies for Santa, but Papi has eaten them all.

'This might be the common ground we've been looking for.'

Inclusive speech

Shadow Puppet Bunny Threatened By Shadow Hawk

'Complete sentences?? Jeez, how verbose can you get?'

Networking

The Importance of Planning Thoroughly in Advance

'All those in doubt, raise your eyebrows.'

"This is the communications workshop, right? Let’s get started, I’m prepared!"

"This isn't the big city anymore, Jim. I'm the facilitator now."

'I thought people were quite receptive to the change seminar.'

The first week of the brainstorming session went slowly.

'Come on, Walter, you're wasting out time! Stop using complete sentences!'

"You're wondering why I've called you here."

'Actually, they're pretty nice, once they settle down.'

How to engage an audience

'I'm feeling a sense of conclusion here, so let's draw things to a close.'

'He has a very open mind. Everything goes in one ear and out the other.'

Start the session by doing something unusual.

'Is that why our games of hide and seek are over so quickly?'

'This training session is all about challenging assumptions. For example you see someone looking depressed, dishevelled, unkempt it's easy to jump to conclusions. But they may not be a social worker, they may be a client!'

'If you ask me, toys are getting far too realistic!'

As the Chief Corporate Adrenal Gland of the company, Fred's recommendations were rarely a surprise.

The meeting will start a little late, intelligence is lost in the building somewhere.

"We can't even agree what to argue about any more!"

The facilitator from hell.

'And now, Gentlemen, that we have our thinking caps on, let us continue.'

'Ladies and gentlemen, today we're going to get down to nuts and bolts.'

'Benson will you stop trying to dominate the meeting.'

'We're running late and I have much to cover. Can you hold your eight-part question for later?'

Community College. History's a lot more fun if you think of it as gossip.

"Let's welcome our new member, Bob!" "You, too!" "'You, too'? Idiot!"