The facilitator is a person who helps and guides in a process or activity, especially by encouraging people to find their own solutions to problems or tasks. He is also someone who makes it possible for something to happen. The person who performs this profession is an expert in group processes and dynamics with the ability to design and coordinate workshops, work sessions, methodologies, group technologies, consulting, among others. The facilitator's specialization, as the Latin word means, is: " make things work."
Nowadays, in some countries a facilitator is related as a teacher or teacher, but it is really androgogy (adult teaching- learning) that considers the andragogue as a facilitator, since he is able to identify the individual characteristics of each adult student What level of prior knowledge does he have, his experiences, etc., in order to focus actions so that everyone shares the same level in the acquisition and understanding of knowledge.
In the business or team work environment, the facilitator provides the implementation of the philosophies or techniques to be used, taking advantage of the different skills of the staff that make up the work team. He is in charge of planning, scheduling, executing and directing the meetings, being the spokesperson that clarifies any doubts presented, taking note of the contributions made, as well as motivating the working group and handling the different problems and inconveniences that arise in the members of the team.
