Virtual facilitation skills
Online versus face-to-face, increasing impact with a flexible style, mixing assignments and methods, basic technical competencies (MS Teams, Zoom) and presentation techniques, including green screen.
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Online and hybrid facilitation
Online meetings can be exhausting, especially when technology and distractions take over. In this in-company training Online and hybrid facilitation you learn new facilitation techniques for online and hybrid meetings. The training consists of 4 half-days for 6 to 12 participants, in Dutch or English.
Do you recognise this?
It is half past three and you are wrapping up your third online session of the day. You have talked a lot, but the participants kept their cameras off and mostly reacted in the chat.
You know that a good session is more than showing slides. Yet it costs you more energy than a room full of people, and you feel that the connection never really happens.
Today we communicate via a multitude of channels and technology allows us to collaborate, regardless of place and time. Facilitation and training techniques that only work face-to-face are losing their impact. Perhaps you recognise this:
- you feel exhausted after an online meeting;
- your day is full of back-to-back meetings without real output;
- technology gets in your way;
- you get distracted easily or your participants drop out.
Why is online facilitation so exhausting?
What happens naturally in a room, like a look, a silence or a gesture, disappears behind a screen. You have to consciously invite, pay attention and adjust, while also keeping an eye on the technology.
That takes a lot of focus. Participants drop out, you are the only one talking and the session delivers less than you had hoped. After a few days like that you feel drained.
It does not have to stay that way. Online and hybrid facilitation is a profession in its own right, and you can learn it.
How do you turn an online session into real contact?
You first learn how online differs from face-to-face, and then how you consciously shape attention, interaction and participation.
Our coaches know this playing field from their own groups. In 4 half-days you work on virtual facilitation skills, attention and interaction, preparation and planning, and facilitating virtual teams. In each half-day we first provide the framework and then you apply it to cases from your own work.
This way you grow step by step towards what you can do after the training below.
What you can do after the training
After the training you can:
- listen better between the lines, with sharper listening skills;
- connect stronger and collaborate better, even remotely;
- create the right setting in a group to get started with interactive methods;
- maintain attention and focus and limit time loss;
- increase your impact during online and hybrid meetings.
How we approach it
In each half-day we first provide the general framework. Then you put the principles and techniques into practice, with examples and cases from your own work situation.
Attention, connection, interaction and participation
Combining the strengths of your participants, giving online feedback, giving online facilitation a real feel and optimally using break-out rooms, whiteboards, quizzes and reactions.
Preparation and planning
Choosing appropriate methods and techniques based on desired outcomes, process versus content, inviting conversation, strengthening group rapport and conversation techniques, probing techniques and summarising techniques.
Facilitating virtual teams
The characteristics of effective virtual teams, building trust within virtual teams and team facilitation techniques: online is also real.
Afterwards you keep practising
Every training is extended in the THOC Leerruimte. Your material remains available and you get an AI Coach who knows the lesson.
We work in an experience-oriented way: you constantly work with the theory in practical exercises that teach you to apply your skills in real situations.
Who gives this training
Any of our coaches can give this training. Tell us how your meetings are going now, and we will put together a programme together. Do you also want to learn to facilitate in person? Then view Facilitation.
Frequently asked questions
For anyone who leads online or hybrid meetings, workshops or training sessions and wants more interaction and focus in them. We work with examples and cases from your own work situation.
The training consists of 4 half-days: virtual facilitation skills, attention and interaction, preparation and planning, and facilitating virtual teams. We tailor the duration to your request.
With six to twelve participants per group. This way there is room to try out methods and get feedback from each other.
In Dutch or English. Let us know which language your team prefers, and we will take that into account in our proposal.
Every training is tailored, so we work with a quote after we have heard your request. Do you want to combine it with other skills? Then view our tailored training.
Practical details
- Format: In-company training
- Languages: English, Dutch
- Half-days: 4
- Participants: 6 to 12