Yawn Facilitator Gifts

"I told him stamp collecting is a dangerous hobby. His jaw got locked in a yawn."

"Shall we start with an icebreaker?"

Inclusive speech

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

'Here's another one that'll make you blow your stack.'

The Importance of Planning Thoroughly in Advance

A man cheers

'All those in doubt, raise your eyebrows.'

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

"Now that we're into spring, we want to warn you that spring fever can be contagious..."

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

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

The first week of the brainstorming session went slowly.

"The meeting was canceled after an outbreak of contagious yawning!"

"Despite years of management training john still found it difficult to give negative feedback."

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.'

'Insomniacs anonymous.'

'The customers' suggestions make a lot of sense. I say, let's hire the customers and fire the staff!'

Start the session by doing something unusual.

'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!'

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

The facilitator from hell.

'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?'

"Timmy, thank you for your science report..."Yawning is Contagious.'"

Today's seminar is going to be so much fun...

The First Powerpoint

Man in church sees sign: Thank you for not yawning.

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

"Yawning is contagious. If he starts, zap him with the laser pointer immediately!"

Yawn

'It's got people contributing but it's a pain smoothing out all those notes.'