Who is this training for?
For leaders and managers, professionals, and members of virtual/hybrid teams who want to improve their competence in the area of conducting online meetings.
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What you will learn in the virtual workshop:
- you will understand the basic elements that distinguish online meetings from office meetings,
- you will learn how to prepare for virtual meetings and how to conduct them to achieve your goals,
- you will learn specific tools and tested platforms used to conduct online meetings,
- you will gain the competencies that allow you to comfortably conduct different types of online meetings.
Advantages of the virtual training
- guarantee of interactive participation in training with the use of online engaging tools
- half-day workshops allow flexible organization of the workday
- relationships building with remote colleagues through joint participation in training
- participation in the workshop from anywhere, all you need is access to a computer
Virtual workshop program
Module 1
Foundations of effective online meetings
- Why are online meetings not always effective?
- Research regarding the effectiveness of online meetings
- Preparing online meetings – most important elements
- Conducting the meeting – relational and technical aspects
- Some truths about focusing attention in the online world – how to maintain attention?
- Facilitating a meeting: how to begin, how to manage the group, what facilitation style to adopt?
- Tools that help to facilitate an online meeting – review
- Virtual boards – how to work with them to build participants’ involvement?
Module 2
Online meetings – a broader perspective
- Chosen meeting forms – most common challenges
- Ways to prepare and structure a given meeting form to make it more effective and prevent the challenges
- Dealing with challenges – what to do in difficult situations in meetings
- Stakeholders – how to have them on board? How to make various participants more engaged?
- How to align different points of view in a meeting? Synchronous and asynchronous ways
- Agility in meetings – how to apply agile thinking mode in meetings
- Closing a meeting – how to do it so that every participant knows what and why to do
- Do we really need all of these meetings? Introduction to asynchronous communication
Project flow
Diagnosis and prework
- in-take interview with the project sponsor
- diagnosis of participants’ needs (online questionnaire and calls)
- prework for participants (material to watch, read or listen to)
Virtual workshops
- training divided into 2 workshops, 3,5 hours each
- interactive working methods: discussions, chat, virtual board, questionnaires, videos, case studies, breakout rooms, external tools (Mentimeter, Miro, Funretro)
- participants: up to 12 people
Summary and follow up
- training materials for participants
- access to the ETTA knowledge base
- follow up call with the project sponsor