As a professional facilitator for over twenty years, virtual facilitation has been a growing part of my work for the last ten. At a time when people are asking ‘how do we have effective virtual meetings’ I started to look back on some of the milestones in developing my own understanding...
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Running virtual meetings from home
So what if you find you need to run meetings from home? Here are some thoughts… Make sure you have the best equipment set up you can – ideally, cable internet connection rather than wifi, a webcam and a USB headset on your laptop. The last two are not expensive...
10 tips for successful virtual meetings
Health concerns are pushing virtual meetings up the agenda. Shifting the balance from face to face towards more virtual meetings also helps save money, time and carbon. Yet in practice people often find virtual meetings frustrating, disappointing and ineffective. Having designed and facilitated virtual meetings for more than ten years,...
A story about collaboration in the Health Service
It was one of those moments when I thought I’d got it completely wrong. We had been working on a major project about integrating health and social care – one of the great challenges facing the UK. We had been supporting a collaboration across health and local authorities for more...