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Creating a Community for Virtual Facilitators: How Coffee Chats Helped Us Find Our People
Coffee Chats are an opportunity to practice virtual facilitation and connect with the facilitation community during the transition to online meetings. Almost by accident, it became an excellent tool for marketing our offers and workshopping new content.
Dancing with MURAL and Google Docs
Mural (and Miro) take time to feel comfortable with. We’re not saying don’t use it, we’re saying use it with intention. Start with your design and your participants in mind.
PODCAST: Genius Zone Podcast with Joran Oppelt, Geoffrey Nelson and Lauren Green (August 5, 2021)
During this podcast “Meetings, Movement, and Change”, Joran, Geoffrey and Lauren belly laugh their way through early hybrid meeting facilitation experiences, the trials of a Pandemic year and bringing movement into facilitation.
Virtual Facilitation in 18 Minutes: a Lizard Brain Workshop (VIDEO)
Facilitating online is different but it doesn't have to be worse. In this 18 minutes "campfire" session, we breakdown virtual facilitation essentials.
Designing Facilitation Agendas Using SessionLab (VIDEO REVIEW)
SessionLab takes the guesswork out of manipulating times and blocks of content to create an easy-to-follow agenda for facilitating virtually online or in person.
Facilitation Tools for Strategic Communications (WEBINAR)
During this 90 minute session held live on October 16, 2020, we practiced with virtual visual templates to support strategic communications.
A Visual Template for Remote Communications Planning (designed in Mural)
You don't have to be an expert in communications planning to remind your groups to take this key step in informing all who are impacted by the change.
How to Host a Zoom Meeting that Gets Creative Results (PODCAST)
With the Covid-19 pandemic still raging on, we give some essential tips for facilitating collaborative creativity on Zoom.
5 Steps to Stay Focused When Teaching Online
The following is an excerpt from a Harvard Business Publishing article by Rae Ringel, Brian Tarallo, and Lauren Green.
Purposeful Play: 5 Favorite Virtual Energizers
Energizers are the glue that keeps your agenda together, especially virtually. They will help you build connection, test the technology, and more.
5 Facilitation Skills for Hosting a Smooth Virtual Meeting
A big part of making your meetings virtual is re-learning things that you already know in a new setting or environment. Here are five quick skills that ANYONE can do.