From the course: Business Analysis: Essential Facilitation and Workshop Skills

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Defining facilitation

Defining facilitation

From the course: Business Analysis: Essential Facilitation and Workshop Skills

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Defining facilitation

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- As we get started, I just want to make sure we're on the same page with what I'm talking about with facilitation. Yeah, I know it sounds scary, a five syllable word here, but this is what we would call an industry term. You're going to hear this term when doing any kind of business analysis work. But that's what makes it a standard term. We all speak the same language and I'm going to do that throughout this course so you get used to this standard language. So back to facilitation. This word comes from the root word facile, which means easy, so facilitation is all about making things easy, as you have enough things to watch out for in your business analysis adventures! The trick is though to make things easy for others. Yup, others, your participants, your stakeholders, those you are trying to have actually do the work. Your goal is to make their lives easier so that they actually come together and create great…

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