Effective Online Meetings

Benefits

Employers are looking for leaders who can get people to work together, even if these people are dispersed far from one another.  Creating successful online meetings is a leadership skill that is climbing in importance.  But, hosting a successful online meeting is more difficult than is a face-to-face meeting.  As a skilled online meeting leader, you can help your organization strengthen team building and create productive meetings despite the distance that separates people in the online ‘meeting room’.  A good online meeting is not an accident.  It is a conscious process of design and facilitation using Internet tools.  The goal for this course is to help participants design and run online meetings that achieve more and be recognized for this leadership skill.

What This Workshop is About

We cover how to design online meetings to overcome the special challenges they present.  Using good planning skills and tying these to technology applications forms the core teaching points.  We look at how to host online meetings to share information, generate ideas, evaluate options, and decide something.  And we examine the special challenges of online meetings and how to deal with these.  Participants learn how to merge their existing meeting management skills with online technology to run effective meetings even when you cannot get people together in the same room.  This course covers how to,

• Design and implement a facilitation that is appropriate for the online environment and the objectives of the meeting.

• Pick and use online tools that are the best fit for the purpose of your meeting.

• Manage participation to keep everyone engaged and on task.

• Manage group discussion and teamwork to ensure forward momentum and make sure there is a concrete work product.

• Manage problem behaviors.

Who This Course is For

What is unique in this course?

This is a webinar-based course that equips you with knowledge and tools for creating and facilitating successful online meetings.  You will learn how to:  Adapt face-to-face meeting management techniques with appropriate online techniques and technology |•| Keep remote participants engaged |•| Minimize distractions and multi-tasking and other problems |•| Collect feedback from remote participants |•| Manage people when you can’t see non-verbal cues and |•| Bring the online meeting to closure to get a clear decision.

What You Can Expect in All Our Workshops

Teaching Model

We use a Tell → Show → Do → Teach-Back Model

• Tell: We present what we know about the skills being taught.

• Show: We demonstrate how the skills are applied through lecture, exercises, facilitated discussion, etc.

• Do: We have participants practice the skills using team assignments, role plays, mock activities, etc.

• Teach-Back: We wrap up topics with peer-to-peer and instructor advice on how to apply the new skills in the real-world.

How We Present This Material

We come to you and present at your work site or offer remote teaching using Internet sharing tools when appropriate.  We use discussion, exercises, lecture, and mock exercises to combine our experience with your staff’s experience and create a dynamic, fun, and highly interactive training.

Transform Your Staff

Learning is not complete until there is application.  We ask participants to discuss how they can maintain the momentum in their organization after we, as trainers, leave.  We also share our ideas on how to form ‘Master Mind’ groups and other supports so participants have a community of knowledgeable peers who can help one another successfully apply the skills after the course.  We also make ourselves available after the event for short consultations for brainstorming solutions, problem solving, etc. for free.

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