Virtual facilitation skills
Course Description
Learn the skills needed to facilitative inclusive and participatory processes virtually.
We will be exploring how we can best take our “live” facilitation skills into a virtual environment to make our meetings and events as interactive as possible. We will consider tips and tools we use along the ‘arc’ of a virtual event, and discuss how we can make the virtual experience engaging, participatory and productive.
Course Level: Beginner to Intermediate
Program Delivery: Virtual or In-Person
Duration: 0.50 day
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What you will learn
- To help you learn about and consider ways to make online events participatory, engaging and productive:
- Identifying challenges to virtual participation
- Hints and tips for improving participation and engagement
- How to adapt your facilitation skills/processes for online spaces
- Trouble shooting and security
- Exposure to a few methods and tools (mentimeter, google, mural, etc.)
What the course will cover
- Roles of a facilitator
- Interpersonal communication and conversation styles in facilitation
- Managing group dynamics & understanding group decision-making processes
- How to design a facilitation process
- Facilitation tools and techniques and how to use them
- Design and prepare your virtual session
- Convening and on-boarding your participants
- Conducting the virtual meeting to maximise engagement, participation and productivity
- Closing the meeting with a review discussion of next steps
Speak to us, so we can design a course to meet your needs.
Course Options
What you will receive: A certificate of attendance upon course completion, a manual, and a list of useful resources.
Our methods are interactive and you will learn by applying concepts to real life case studies. See more about our methodology here.
Talk to us about how we can craft the ideal experience for your team: Email training@southernhemisphere.co.za
