Category Archives: Facilitation
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Want to Have More Interactive Meetings?
Posted on June 12, 2012 by JoyBolluyt in Business, Facilitation, Productivity, Tools of the Trade, Virtual Meetings.I know, you’re wondering…what are interactive meetings, and why would I rather attend them? Okay, seriously. Everyone has attended meetings that seem to drag on, more of a lecture than a sharing of thoughts and ideas. It’s especially painful if the person running your meeting speaks in a monotone and reads directly from the Handouts…”Hello! [...]
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Top 3 Virtual Meeting Platforms
Posted on June 4, 2012 by JoyBolluyt in Business, Facilitation, HOA, Tools of the Trade, Virtual Meetings.In a previous Blog post, we talked about “How to Increase Engagement” in your meetings. We talked about prep work and pre-work, and how they will make your attendees more engaged and your meetings more productive. Another way that you can create engagement in your meetings, especially when all of the attendees are not co-located, [...]
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How to Increase Engagement
Posted on May 15, 2012 by JoyBolluyt in Business, Facilitation, Leadership, Productivity, Virtual Meetings.It is a rare person who wants to attend a meeting. Those who do not want to attend have a variety of reasons: waste of time, won’t learn anything, wanting to avoid being assigned tasks, aren’t meeting their deadlines, lack of participation, boring, been there, done that!! We’ve all attended meetings that have fulfilled one or more [...]
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Bridging Cultural Differences With Tools and Techniques
Posted on May 9, 2012 by JoyBolluyt in Business, Facilitation, Leadership, Productivity, Virtual Meetings, Virtual Teaming.We Have Culture, Yes, We Do! You’ve heard the term “global economy”, you may have even used it. The Internet allows us not only to communicate with people around the world, it enables us to work with them too. Remember when the people you worked with were in the same room as you? Then, maybe [...]
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4 Steps for Managing Virtual Events
Posted on April 9, 2012 by JoyBolluyt in Business, Facilitation, Marketing, Virtual Meetings.4 Steps for a Successful Event! Sure, you’ve attended meetings, seminars, conventions, etc, AKA Offline Events. But, have you ever planned one? Have you attended a virtual event such as a tele-seminar, or Webinar, AKA Online/Virtual Event? Virtual Events are becoming more popular for many reasons: a slow economy, they’re less expensive, no one has [...]
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