Facilitating Successful Remote Meetings

Who is this course for?

Anyone who works remotely, reports into other teams, or manages people in different geographical areas.

You may also benefit from our minute taking training course.

Benefits

• Understanding how co-located and remote meetings differ
  
• Be able to benchmark against the best practice of effective remote management
  
• Gain insight into remote teams' diverse characteristics and dynamics
  
• Explore how remote meetings can influence outcomes
  
• Know what tools are available to support remote meetings
  

Meeting Face to Face vs Remotely

When to deploy a remote meeting?
How will the meeting run differently from face to face?
Benefits and challenges of virtual meetings

Working with the technology

Explore technology options
Advantages and disadvantages
Using the tools to maximise engagement and interaction

Process of remote meeting

Importance of preparation
Keeping a flexible agenda
Engaging with remote participants
Organising 'hybrid' meetings
Pre-empting any cultural differences
Agreeing actions
Creating and improving the winning meeting formula

Communication and facilitation

The dissemination and management of information
Participation cycle; listening and contributing
Working with different individual styles, needs and demands
Using effective questions to manage discussions and encourage participation
Managing the meeting, minute taking/agreed objectives and winding up remote meeting
Handling difficult situations

Face-to-face training

Training is held in our modern, comfortable, air-conditioned suites.

Lunch, breaks and timing

A hot lunch is provided at local restaurants near our venues:

• Bloomsbury
• Limehouse

Courses start at 9:30am.

Please aim to be with us for 9:15am.

Browse the sample menus and view joining information (how to get to our venues).

Refreshments

Available throughout the day:

• Hot beverages
• Clean, filtered water
• Biscuits

Virtual training

Regular breaks throughout the day.

Learning tools

In-course handbook

Contains unit objectives, exercises and space to write notes

24 months access to trainers

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