When leading a small group online meeting (2-7 people), the ability to move forward well toward your meeting purpose can be dependent upon whether you can “see” one another. This “tip” gets more pushback than any others. And when you lead larger meetings or webinars, it is particularly helpful for those who are speaking to […]
Be Brave: Show your Video! Read More »
While I know that many of us have grown a bit weary with video and online meetings right now, depending upon your meeting purpose, they can still help us work together in similar ways to being in the same room. One of the aspects that helps the most with a productive online meeting is sharing
Can you see what I see? Read More »
When we are in person, we often have “ground rules, guiding principles or working agreements” that help us set expectations for participation. It’s important to set expectations for your online meetings too! Those who know me well have been in enough online meetings with me that they know I’m going to ask them to show
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When we facilitate an in-person meeting, most folks expect to have some kind of on-site support. Someone will help with registration, take notes, there might be an IT person to troubleshoot technology challenges and you may even have additional facilitators. When you facilitate an online meeting, sometimes folks make the mistake of trying to do
Garner support from your team Read More »
It seems obvious that we would need to identify our meeting purpose, but sometimes we can get into a place right now where the “shoulds” start to get us. We “should” meet, we “should” make sure folks are ok, we “should” keep being as productive as we were in the past. Why those voices may
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I had not originally planned to address this in my “online meeting series” but I’ve had lots of comments from friends and colleagues about how tired they have been after sitting through an endless number of online meetings. With everything changing rapidly with COVID-19 and folks wanting to stay connected and figure out some sort
Overcoming online meeting fatigue Read More »
One of my favorite things to do is facilitate a small or large group meeting. I know it may sound completely crazy to some, but I am totally energized by active discussions and participations, “aha” moments and seeing a group move to collective action and a plan forward. While these skills are also important in
Facilitating Online Meetings: How are they different? Read More »
For the last 7 weeks, we have talked a lot about your “yes”, “no”, “ideal week” and staying true to yourself. We have also seen a major upheaval in every day life in the past two weeks with COVID-19. Even if you are practicing these habits often, sometimes you are going to still make decisions
Don’t be so hard on yourself Read More »
How often do you say “yes” and stick to it- especially when that is a “yes” as an appointment to yourself? Or maybe you say “no” I do not have time and yet you try to figure out how to move everything around to make something work for someone else? We can schedule time and
Staying true to your “yes” and your “no” Read More »
In last week’s blog, we talked about saying “yes” with enthusiasm. If you are going to be able to say “yes” with enthusiasm, you have to practice saying “no” with confidence (or if you aren’t yet confident, keep practicing and you will become more confident!). How many times have you said “no” but then someone
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