How to Facilitate Virtually

A New Competency for the New Economy

More and more organizations are turning to TeleCalls, Virtual Classes, Web Conferencing, live Virtual Meetings and Video Conferencing to achieve their goals. The compelling reasons behind this push are:

• Easy Attendance: Wherever you are, if there is a telephone/computer, you can attend a TeleClass or Webinar.
• Save Time & Money. The cost of airfare, hotels, restaurant meals, travel time and incidentals are eliminated.
• Hassle-Free: No commuting hassles...no rush hour traffic to deal with...no parking problems. A one-hour meeting is just 1 hour. No commuting or parking time (or costs!).
• Better Quality of Life. You can work from home (or somewhere more exotic!), and conduct your business meetings in cyberspace.
• Broad and Diverse Participation. Aligned with the new global economy, geography is not a barrier to meeting attendance of partners, suppliers, consumers and employees from anywhere in the world.

What's not to like?

Quite a lot, actually. Virtual meetings are not suitable for all meeting purposes or groups, and there are many downsides to working in the virtual medium. Learn more about pros/cons....

Take our upcoming class, The Virtual Facilitator to build your virtual meeting facilitation and virtual class instruction competencies. At the end of your time with us, you will be able to strategically determine when a virtual meeting is right for the work, how to ensure each is productive, plus gain proven strategies, helpful tips and many techniques to lead focused, interactive meetings and effective virtual classes.