Remote Workshop Facilitation Skills

Learn how to facilitate remote meetings with high presence, and engagement.

Learn how to host efficient and engaging remote meetings. When working with remote team members, or if current circumstances dictate you to work from home, the skills of facilitating valuable and meaningful meetings online might be vital for the success of your team or your company.

During this training, which is given online, you will learn how to facilitate remote meetings with high presence, and engagement, and that results in concrete outcomes. You will learn, and get to practice tools, skills, a variety of workshop formats, techniques, and tips that will improve your online collaboration with your colleagues and team members.

After the training, you will be able to apply what you’ve learned…

  • as the moderator in the short sync meeting
  • as a facilitator of a workshop or planning exercise
  • as a facilitator of a retrospective
  • as a host of a full-day conference

Topics covered during the training…

Tips and techniques applicable when moderating short small meetings

Tips and techniques applicable when facilitating team workshops 

Tips and techniques applicable when hosting presentations for a wider audience

How to facilitate engaging meetings with remote participants

How to prepare before the workshop

How to work with structure and clarity to raise focus

How to launch and frame the meeting to increase presence and engagement

Different workshop formats that are suitable for online collaboration

Different methods and techniques for decision making

Closure of meetings to maximise commitment and clarity on what happens next

Objective and goal

The goal of this course is to provide you with tools, tips, techniques, and skills that will help you host more engaging and focused online meetings and collaborative workshops. You will be able to apply what you learn in different situations, such as department town halls, sync meetings, creative workshops, planning sessions, retrospectives, and training sessions.  

What do others have to say about the course?

Here are some examples of quotes from past participants:

“Great summary of tools and techniques for workshops.”

“I really appreciated jumping between topics and tools, and doing exercises in small breakout teams.”

“Brave to run a full-day remote course on workshopping. And it turned out great! I’m really impressed.”

“Awesome job! Being able to share this much content and still have engagement is a feat.”

 

This training is for you whom…

Work with remote team members (if current circumstances dictate you to work from home) and want to learn how to raise engagement, focus, and structure the video meetings you host or facilitate. You may have a role as Manager, Scrum Master, Project Manager, Product Owner, or Educator.  

Prior Knowledge & Prerequisites

No prior knowledge

3 for the price of 2

For all of Jimmy’s courses, you can redeem an offer where you get to send three participants for the price of two.

More info about this training

The training is conducted remotely over video using Zoom.

Schedule:

08.45 – 09.00 Technical check-in and coffee

12.00 – 13.00 Break for lunch

09.00 – 17.00 Training