I’m loving my work at the moment! My calendar’s been packed with online training sessions with bunches of brilliant people – mainly coaches, facilitators and trainers. They join the first call apprehensive at the thought of a longish online session: the best that they hope for is boredom. They finish the workshops delighted at the …
The Basic Ingredients Of Effective Online Meetings Read More »
Engaging online meetings don’t happen by accident. They’re created. It’s a bit like cooking. At a basic level, it’s about combining good-quality ingredients, in the right amounts, to create a decent dish – avoiding burnt, stodgy, tasteless or otherwise inedible offerings. But in the hands of an expert chef, extraordinary flights of flavour become possible. …
Three Secret Ingredients For Restaurant-Quality Online Meetings Read More »
I’m delivering loads of live-online training about online meetings at the moment. There’s Remote Meetings Mastery (with Lisette Sutherland) and Remote Agile Facilitator for Adventures with Agile, plus a train-the-trainer for ICAgile. Plus, I’m gearing up for the year’s biggest online event for Clean Language enthusiasts, Metaphorum 2019. And there’s one question that keeps being …
Should You Record Online Meetings And/Or Training? Read More »
Facilitators love sticky-notes! Colourful, accessible, flexible… and temporary. They allow groups to capture and manipulate their thoughts in an accessible, interactive way. So when facilitators start to work online – assuming that they’re able to see and hear everyone clearly, and have video breakout rooms to play with – it’s sticky notes (aka Post-Its) that …
The 3 Questions You Must Ask Before Choosing An Online Sticky-Note Tool Read More »
Meetings tend to proliferate as organisations grow, but in-the-room ones are limited by… rooms. As our meetings go remote, and that physical constraint is removed, it seems the number of meetings can quickly get out of control. That’s just maths, apparently. (Read more on this in my recent blog post.) As the time available for …
Are Your Meetings Metastasising? Here’s The Cure Read More »
