Facilitating an Effective Online Meeting
More information >Goal
Increasing effectiveness when facilitating online meetings to encourage engagement by participants and achievement of set objectives.
Learning objectives
- Improve facilitation skills by mastering strategies for planning, hosting, and managing productive virtual meetings.
- Overcome challenges by addressing technical issues, engagement barriers, and group dynamics effectively.
- Boost collaboration by using tools and techniques to foster active participation and productive discussions.
Organization
Real-time virtual classroom where each participant connects to the session via a web link. Computer, webcam and headphones with a microphone are required for the session.
content
Introduction and background
Our practices are changing…
Online meetings
- The figures speak for themselves
- Setting up for success
- Pre-Meeting Steps
- Tips when welcoming participants
- Polishing your online presence
- Challenges and strategies
- Exercise in sub-groups
- Technical challenges
- People challenges
- Facilitation challenges
- Participant engagement
- Encouraging participation
- Collaboration tools
- 3 rules of engagement for participants
- Communication techniques
- Active listening
- Wrap up using the five checks of closure
- Essential highlights
- Summary and closing
Action plan
The evaluation is completed online after the training session