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Facilitation Lab Podcast

Douglas Ferguson

Welcome to the Facilitation Lab Podcast, where Douglas Ferguson, founder of facilitation academy Voltage Control, speaks with Voltage Control Certification Alumni and other facilitation experts about the remarkable impact they"re making. These discussions embrace a method-agnostic approach, so you can enjoy a wide range of topics and perspectives as we examine all the nuances of enabling meaningful group experiences. This series is dedicated to helping you navigate the realities of facilitating

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40:00

Matthew Reynolds: Crafting Your Equity Lens

Facilitation Lab Podcast ·

2021/11/16

“ I wanted the classroom to be based on the fact that first and foremost, bring everything you got. Bring all aspects of who you feel and think and believe yourself to be, because we're all constantly forming that idea, all trying to figure out who our authentic self is. So through that, I started to focus more on creating an actual pledge for each of my class periods. So instead of saying these are the rules, I had my students help create community in that particular class period and what that

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36:19

Bre Gentile: What To Do After You Listen

Facilitation Lab Podcast ·

2021/11/08

“One of the most common things that I'm hearing is, ‘thank you for sharing’. It drives me nuts because there's a big part of me that is just like, there's no ‘thank you’ needed. I didn't share that for your gratitude to be received. I shared that because it was on my mind. And so I think what I fear is happening is we're starting to have this conversation about let's listen. Let's just take time to listen. Without having been trained on what to do after you hear things. And I don't know if we're

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37:40

Brian Sullivan: Healing Broken Teams

Facilitation Lab Podcast ·

2021/11/01

“I think one of the things that is unfortunate about design thinking is it gets a little bit of a bad rap in that people don't see a practical application of it. And I think if you can strip away some of the aesthetics and strip away some of the language, but there are practical applications, I call it, we have to be practical and tactical because we can really drive a lot of change in our organization by doing that.” -Brian Sullivan In this episode of Control the Room, I had the pleasure of

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46:08

Gregory Galle: ‘Being’ In A Different Way

Facilitation Lab Podcast ·

2021/10/25

“We spend a lot of time figuring out how to dismantle people's ideas. How to poke holes in them. Critical thinking is supposed to be critical, right? Well, not always. Critical thinking sometimes is about how you combine things in new ways and create new things out of them. See what's possible. Not just how you deconstruct them and leave all the parts on the table.”-Gregory Galle In this episode of Control the Room, I had the pleasure of speaking with Gregory Galle about his 30 years of

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34:04

Petra Willie: Developing Strong Product People

Facilitation Lab Podcast ·

2021/10/18

“Every product leader needs to have their own definition of what makes a great product manager because there is not this one size fits all definition. We’re operating in so many different sizes and types of companies and organizations, so I strongly encourage the product teams to come up with their own definition.”-Petra Willie In this episode of Control the Room, I had the pleasure of speaking with Petra Willie about her extensive experience developing product people and how her experience as a

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36:41

Dana Publicover: Delivering an Exceptional Sales...

Facilitation Lab Podcast ·

2021/10/11

“I really believe that anyone who has a business is a salesperson. You've got this far and you may not follow that traditional path. You may not be the guy in the polo shirt who's going to make 100 phone calls that day. But I feel like there's something to be said for people who have built their business and want to keep selling it and they have the tools to sell it. You can have these conversations.”-Dana Publicover In this episode of Control the Room, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dana

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41:03

Evo Heyning: Facilitating a Protopian Metaverse

Facilitation Lab Podcast ·

2021/10/04

“To me the future of the public commons is the metaverse. And so, if you're hearing this word metaverse and you're thinking, ;What is that?; It is a digital universe. It has many planets and solar systems. The ecosystems of the metaverse might be like a crypto experience, or it might be a virtual world, or it might be augmented reality or smart glasses. These are all places where we come to collaborate, where we come to find each other, and where we come to figure it out. We need these places to

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30:36

Madelon Guinazzo: The Consent of Self Care

Facilitation Lab Podcast ·

2021/09/27

“The number one foundational principle as a facilitator is to create psychological safety, psychological security, emotional security in the room by informing people and letting them know what the expectations are upfront. So what is the agenda? What is the goal? What is expected of them? Because that helps people relax, when they know what I am supposed to be doing here? Because otherwise they're tiptoeing around hoping that they don't stub their toe on something.” -Madelon Guinazzo In this

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39:49

Todd Allmond: Factoring in The Mediators of Experience

Facilitation Lab Podcast ·

2021/09/20

“Three-quarters of enterprise customers and around 67% of consumers primarily buy and compete on experience. And we kind of know that intuitively. Think about it, we pay extra for certain brands that we feel connected to. And it's one of the interesting things I've been talking more about. There's a great quote, not mine... "The best experience anywhere becomes the minimum expectation everywhere."” -Todd Allmond In this episode of Control the Room, I had the pleasure of speaking with Todd Allmond

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40:49

Paula Rosecky: Cultivating Cross-cultural Belonging

Facilitation Lab Podcast ·

2021/09/13

“I think it's important to have silent time because each individual has something unique to contribute to the collective of the group. In order to not be influenced by what others are saying or contributing, it's important that they listen to their own thoughts or ideas or opinions or beliefs about whatever it is that is being shared, whatever we're trying to accomplish. So that you can have more variety, possibly more diversity, more genuine personal truth in what you're bringing to the table.”

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35:10

Tim Beattie: A Future Forward in DevOps

Facilitation Lab Podcast ·

2021/09/07

“To me, [DevOps is] a collaboration philosophy. It's an ideology that is all about breaking down silos and getting communication flows, working through an organization. Starting with dev and ops, that's where the name came from, but really extending beyond that. It flows through the whole organization, you taking that product mindset approach to everything, continuous discovery, continuous delivery, a foundation of culture.” -Tim Beattie In this episode of Control the Room, Tim Beattie and I dive

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30:55

Jeff Marple: Advocate For Your Customer

Facilitation Lab Podcast ·

2021/08/30

“We really pride ourselves as somebody that can go into a company and put on the team's jersey, so to speak, and act as the advocate for the person who hired us. In order to do that, you've got to know your environment. So we listen a lot. We take a lot of notes. We ask a lot of questions. And we very much try to keep an open mind. In this episode of Control the Room, Jeff Marple and I discuss how innovation can sometimes appear taboo in the legal operations industry, and the opportunity the legal

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40:58

Teresa Torres: Embrace the Messy

Facilitation Lab Podcast ·

2021/08/23

“That's what I nerd out on. I really love this idea of how...organizations create environments where they can push decision making down to the edges, so...they become a complex organism that's way better at engaging with the world and creating value in the world.” -Teresa Torres In this episode of Control the Room, Teresa Torres and I examine her diverse career journey centered in human-centered design, where she helps organizations embrace and optimize the complex dynamics of team

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49:16

David Sibbet: Think Visually

Facilitation Lab Podcast ·

2021/08/17

“ If you really listen to people and understand what's happening, if you illustrate an image that they're actually describing in their mind, [while] reflecting back maybe a sketch of what they were trying to say, people love it. People absolutely go crazy being listened to. ” -David Sibbet In this episode of Control the Room, David Sibbet and I break down his unique career path in consulting and facilitating visual meetings and how individuals can use visual elements to amplify their learning

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35:29

Van Lai-DuMone: Normalize Creativity in the Workplace

Facilitation Lab Podcast ·

2021/08/11

“When we follow our curiosity...and take small steps towards that curiosity, that's how we create possibilities for ourselves and for others.” -Van Lai-DuMone In this episode of the Control the Room Podcast, Van Lai-DuMone and I unpack the creative footprint that inspired her to dedicate her life’s work at worksmART to uncover creativity in every organization. Van shares her observations on the creativity disconnect she’s seen unfold in the corporate workforce and how teams can reignite collective

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46:03

Sarah L Collie: Facilitation as a Means, Not an End

Facilitation Lab Podcast ·

2021/08/02

“There's a spectrum of teaching styles, and there's maybe the more traditional historical style of command style and sage on stage, all the way to a self-discovery. It appears to me that facilitation is really in that middle space between the command style and the self-discovery. [Facilitation] is about unleashing the collective power of a group.” -Sarah L. Collie In this episode of Control the Room, Sarah Collie and I chat about the influence facilitation has played throughout her professional

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45:47

Jim Scott: Design First

Facilitation Lab Podcast ·

2021/07/27

“Design is an artifact, it's a thing, I believe it's also a process. I find that there's not a strong tie to people expressing and trying to describe the essence of the problem. To ask that question, ‘What is the essence of the problem we're trying to solve here?’ There's something deeper there and I think that's somewhat been lost.” -Jim Scott In this episode of Control the Room, Jim Scott and I examine the multi-layered career of design. We discuss the benefits of implementing the macro & micro

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33:49

Liya James: Create a Courageous Culture

Facilitation Lab Podcast ·

2021/07/20

“Once people have the experience [to step] outside and they're willing...to create, to model, to look at the world with a new perspective and they realize, ‘Oh my, the power is not the things. The power is my willingness and my openness to interact with these things and give it my imagination.’” -Liya James In this episode of Control the Room, Liya James and I discuss the value of environment shifts in organizations to unleash creation and the significance of a creative & courageous mindset in the

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43:25

Diana Joseph: The Critical Corporate/Startup...

Facilitation Lab Podcast ·

2021/07/12

“We have two really strong capacities [as human beings]. One is about discipline, finishing things and staying aligned. ...We'll call that the discipline muscle. The other muscle is the initiative muscle. That's where we're going out on a limb, we're taking a risk, we're being creative, we're curious about what might happen if.” -Diana Joseph Diana Joseph is the Founder of the Corporate Accelerator Forum, an organization that builds a space for key relationships, stories, & tools in corporate

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38:20

Spawrks: Break Your Learning Loop

Facilitation Lab Podcast ·

2021/07/06

“Learning by being with an expert and learning how they think and why they think is super important, but not necessarily an expert who's the best. ...The best ways that you can learn are from people who just learned it. Scaffolding your learning and putting yourself in environments where you're learning from someone who just learned something is the fastest way you can basically learn things in the modern world.” -Spawrks Spawrks is the Co-Host of Space Pencils, a community built to enrich

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