Publication
“Teach Forward! A Facilitator’s Guide to Our Digital Future”
Report by Christina J. Colclough for Public Services International (PSI). Published by PSI, Sept. 2023. Available here
About the report
This online report is designed to support trade unionists interested in delivering trainings about the digitalisation of work and workers.
Table of Contents
Six workshops with all the material you need to run them!
Each chapter in this report corresponds to one workshop. There are 6 workshops in total. We recommend that you organise 90-120 minute meetings or workshops with your members or colleagues. It is advisable to go through just one chapter per meeting.
The chapters each contain useful information for you as a facilitator. They each end with a section called “Facilitator Material” which includes a facilitator’s guide with tips for holding the workshop as well as possible responses to the group work, links to PowerPoint slides, group exercises for your participants, and for chapters 2-6 on tools and guides a video describing each tool.
In addition to the first chapter, which is all about the foundational knowledge we need to have to negotiate on the digitalisation of work, each subsequent chapter is devoted to one of the tools or guides we have developed in PSI's Our Digital Future project.
How to use this guide
As the facilitator, you can use the text in the chapters as speaking notes, or you can copy some or all of it as reading material prior to the meeting/workshop. Use the provided slide decks as are or copy those you want to use. You can beneficially share the slide decks with participants before each workshop.
In workshops 2-6, it is recommendable to ask the participants to open the tool and go through it with them. Lastly, you can share this guide with the participants who have been at all, or most, of the workshops. In this way they can teach forward too!
While this report is intended to be broadly accessible, we recommend that the facilitator has a sound knowledge of the risks and opportunities associated with the digitalisation work and workers. This doesn’t mean, however, that you should know the answer to every question that participants may have. If you get stuck and can’t answer a question, tell the participants you will get back to them.
Have fun!