Roles of a Facilitator

What is one of the roles of a facilitator?

• To guide the discussion

• To dictate the discussion

• To be involved in making decision during the discussion

• All of the above

What other role does a facilitator have?

• To let the discussion flow without worrying about time

• To force everyone to speak up

• To keep track of the time allotted for discussion

• To just sit down, look pretty and and observe

To facilitate effectively, you must be ____________

• subjective

• objective

• opinionated

• dogmatic

A facilitator guides and controls the group so that _________

• There is effective participation

• Participants achieve a mutual understanding

• Participants take shared responsibility for the outcome

• All of the above

The key responsibility of a facilitator is to create a group process and an environment in which it can flourish, and so help the group reach a ___________________________

• successful decision, solution and conclusion

• failed decision, solution and conclusion

• inconclusive decision, solution and conclusion

• unconfirmed decison, solution and conslusion