IS.7:4.4 - Fit the facilitation to the work and the people

Choose the facilitating contribution and its performer together. An internal facilitator can work close to the episode and remain available; an external facilitator can bring unfamiliar expertise or a position from which difficult assumptions can be challenged. A paired arrangement can join those contributions, but requires a usable division of work and time. An internal title does not confer trust or authority, and an external contract does not confer technical competence or independence.

Use FPF C.32.MWA.PP to compare the complete arrangements when those differences matter. Include actual access, credibility for the needed interaction, relevant expertise, discretion to adapt, response time and scarce capacity. FPF A.15.8.MS supplies explanation, tools and other methodological provision. Match less experienced facilitators with an obtainable experienced contribution for the difficult judgement; name what the less experienced performer may decide and when it must return. This is a work arrangement, not an obligation to create a permanent senior post.

Decide whether the facilitator should perform a contribution, work alongside the people learning to perform it, demonstrate it or observe their attempt and give feedback. Select from the present undertaking, risk and wanted capability. An AI may help compare materials or examine a proposed explanation; actual consent, confidentiality, competence, permissions and affected participants’ ability to correct that account remain relevant conditions. The source evidence for human facilitation does not establish autonomous AI facilitation’s effectiveness.