Corporate Training By Zack Academy - Facilitating Remote and Online Meetings - Essential Success Skills Webinar

Why should you take the Facililtating Remote and Online Meetings - Essential Success Skills Webinar?

The Facilitating Remote and Online Meetings – Essential Success Skills Webinar provides a practical model and extensive toolkit for designing and facilitating online meetings. This course offers specific strategies you can use immediately to create a participatory environment where all attendees are providing ideas, remaining engaged, and contributing to the meeting’s success. Attendees will learn how to merge their existing facilitation skills with online technology to manage meetings effectively even when you cannot get people together in the same room.

This webinar will equip you with knowledge and tools for creating and facilitating online meetings to share information, evaluate options, or decide something. You will learn how to tackle some of these common challenges:

• Adapt face-to-face techniques with appropriate online techniques and technology.
• Keeping remote participants engaged
• Minimizing distractions and multi-tasking
• Collecting feedback from remote participants
• Managing people when you can’t see non-verbal cues
• Bringing the online meeting to closure and getting a clear decision

At the end of this course you will be able to:

• Design and implement a facilitation that is appropriate for the online environment
• Pick and use the online meeting support tools that are a best fit for the purpose of your meeting
• Manage the group discussion and teamwork to ensure forward momentum to arrive at a definitive closure
• Manage participation to keep everyone engaged and ‘on task’

Who should take the Facilitating Remote and Online Meetings - Essential Success Skills Webinar?

If you have a geographically dispersed audience but need greater collaboration and teamwork, this course is for you. If your job is facilitating groups but travel problems get in the way, this course is for you. If you already have a lot of online meetings but are not satisfied with their productivity, this course is for you.

The webinar will benefit:

• Facilitators who need to add online meeting facilitation to their tool kit
• Professionals who lead meetings in which all or a portion of the participants are offsite
• Trainers who need to get everyone ‘on the same page’
• Supervisors, managers, and project managers responsible for teamwork when the team can’t work at the same location

Course Topics Include:

• Introduction: Why meet online?
• Characteristics of an online meeting
• Challenges of facilitating online meetings
• Planning an online meeting
• Good management behaviors for online meetings
• Tools to make your facilitation more successful
• Generative Facilitation: Online facilitation techniques when you have to generate new material
• Evaluative Facilitation: Online facilitation techniques when you have to evaluate and compare options
• Decision Facilitation: Online facilitation techniques when you have to get a group to decide something
• How to get teamwork done via online methods
• How to get planning and organizing done via online methods
• Evaluating online meetings
• Best management practices tips

Course Includes:

• Interactive webinar training with an experienced instructor
• Detailed student manual to keep as a reference for when you're in the field
• Demonstrations of online facilitation techniques and tools
• Access to resources you can use after the course

Webinar Format:

This is a download of 3 recorded two-hour webinar sessions. The sessions were presented live in August 2014. The download includes the full content of the live sessions and the course material booket and supplemental materials in .pdf format.

Additional Information

For additional information, see these articles by instructor Michael Fraidenburg: Good Practices for Interactive Online Meetings, Tips for Successful Online Facilitation, Getting Meetings Off to a Good Start

Syllabus

• Introduction: Why meet online?
• Characteristics of an online meeting
• Challenges of facilitating online meetings
• Planning an online meeting
• Good management behaviors for online meetings
• Tools to make your facilitation more successful
• Generative Facilitation: Online facilitation techniques when you have to generate new material
• Evaluative Facilitation: Online facilitation techniques when you have to evaluate and compare options
• Decision Facilitation: Online facilitation techniques when you have to get a group to decide something
• How to get teamwork done via online methods
• How to get planning and organizing done via online methods
• Evaluating online meetings
• Best management practices tips