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A Facilitator Is Not the One Who Talks Most | Devcon

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0:00A: One is, um, each one needs to have a facilitator. A facilitator is not the person who speaks the most, but actually someone who like helps the conversation flow in a semi-coherent way. And some of us, like myself, are really good at just talking, maybe a little too much. Um, and some of us are, you know, more quiet and have a lot to say, but, you know, we don’t say it if we don’t want to. So some conversations you have 3 people talking 80% of the time, while the remaining 20 might have a whole lot of things to say. So the facilitator is making sure a lot of voices are heard, and you guys deciding whether you want to go really deep in one area or go a bit broad in a whole lot of different areas. So those are choices you make.

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