These seven virtual workshop facilitation tips help reduce meeting waste and increase the potential for virtual event learning.
Seven Virtual Workshop Facilitation Tips These seven virtual workshop facilitation tips help reduce meeting waste. More importantly, they increase the potential for virtual event learning. As in person, HOW one facilitates a virtual workshop is what makes the difference.
For almost forty years of my work career, I was not a fan of virtual workshops. Virtual content delivery did not seem to provide the potential for enough interaction and skill practice. People would simply fail to retain what was shown and told to them. Now, virtual workshop facilitation is much of what I do.
Still, I struggle with the ‘loss’ of my face-to-face workshops. However, I see promise in the trainer-led virtual classroom. That is, if the facilitator effectively manages course content and delivery. It is a good thing such promise exists.
I don’t see myself going back to the 100 days per year in ‘airports and airplanes’ world. I want to teach from home. However, there is no way I can compromise the quality of my work.
Thus, the question becomes ‘What needs to change in order to teach a virtual course as well as I can teach an in-person course?’