As restrictions ease, teams and organisations are thinking about how to manage meetings when some participants may be at home and others may be office based: these are known as hybrid meetings. A hybrid meeting is where some participants join through one method and other participants join by another method....
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What is under the surface of virtual meetings?
Many of us have learned the nuts and bolts of virtual meetings quickly with the sudden shift to working from home. As well as practical tutorials and top tips people are now talking about the psychology of meeting at a distance. This blog asks some questions about what is happening...
Planning virtual meetings
Some weeks in to the coronavirus restrictions, people are connecting through virtual meetings. But are you planning meetings so they are effective, participative and achieve their goals? This matters most for complex meetings, perhaps a strategic discussion with external collaborators. But good planning matters for any meeting even it’s only...
What’s the difference between good and bad virtual meetings?
In the past few days many people have adjusted to running and attending more virtual meetings. Some are great, others less so. So what’s the difference? Here are some of the factors that make a difference. The invitation How not to: Copy and paste the link from the virtual platform...
Seven things I’ve learned about facilitating virtual meetings
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...
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,...
What is the power of facilitation?
I’m working with an international group putting together a book on the Power of Facilitation. I am co-authoring a chapter on collaboration. I’ve been facilitating groups for more than twenty years and for much of that time I’ve defined myself principally as a facilitator more than as a consultant, coach...
What is the power of facilitation?
I’m working with an international group putting together a book on the Power of Facilitation. I am co-authoring a chapter on collaboration. I’ve been facilitating groups for more than twenty years and for much of that time I’ve defined myself principally as a facilitator more than as a consultant, coach...
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