Hi Nancy,

Below is is the assessment of my facilitator skills

In terms of facilitating an offline workshop in my line of work I have not yet had the opportunity to be a facilitator of a workshop. However I have organised workshops and managed projects which have been successful. My strengths are that I have good planning, organisational implementation and communication skills. I can improve in the areas of solving conflict and mediation.

Online Facilitator skills

How I assessed myself with this section is I used the Facilitator tasks and routines to evaluate myself.

In will like to start with what I need to improve on:

• Reading between the lines is a skill that I will have to acquire.
• Use of facilitation techniques to animate discussions, draw out silent participants
• Dealing with online conflict
• Manage inflows
• time management (time allotted for discussions, side issues that may come up that are not the main objectives of the discussion)
• May have to work on some motivation skills
  

Strengths

• Facilitation task outlined eg building trust, welcoming new members, dealing with request for information
• Searching and sharing external information resources.
• Summarising info
• Encouraging members
• Performing support task

Evaluation is continous so I may make adjustments to this but this is what I have so far. My offline skills can help with my online however I have realised that online has a life of its own. Iwill not assume that what works offline will automatically work online.

Lisa