http://facilitate.com/blog Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:56:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://facilitate.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/6-critical-success-factors-for-running-powerful-virtual-meetings/ http://facilitate.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/6-critical-success-factors-for-running-powerful-virtual-meetings/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 00:12:54 +0000 Julia Young http://facilitate.com/blog/?p=344 This week I am speaking about running effective virtual meetings at the “Best of the West” Conference sponsored by the Bay Area OD Network. With the current state of the world economy, it’s easy to understand why there is a surge of interest in virtual collaboration as a way to eliminate the expense of bringing people together in physical time and space. Some managers jump in feet first assuming a meeting is a meeting is a meeting, others put an apprehensive toe in the water, concerned about the lack of visual cues, the reliance on technology and so on. In my experience consulting with global organizations in many industries, the transition away from face-to-face interaction is not an easy one, but it is manageable if you recognize and address its unique challenges.
Everything that we already know about good facilitation applies to virtual meetings and using web meeting tools. In addition to the normal meeting planning activities there are some particular issues that we need to pay attention to as facilitators of virtual meetings. We can summarize these issues into six critical success factors for getting great results from virtual meetings.

]]> http://facilitate.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/6-critical-success-factors-for-running-powerful-virtual-meetings/feed/ 8 http://facilitate.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/choosing-the-right-collaboration-platform-for-your-project/ http://facilitate.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/choosing-the-right-collaboration-platform-for-your-project/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:22:18 +0000 Danuta McCall http://facilitate.com/blog/?p=193 With the myriad of collaboration solutions in the market today, it’s more important than ever to know what you’re looking for and why. In our experience, work groups will accept new technology if it helps them better complete the tasks for which they are accountable. Simply put, they will adopt if they see the benefit; if they don’t, you’ll encounter resistance at every step.
We recently published a case study illustrating the process used by a Canadian public health consortium that resulted in the thoughtful selection of collaboration tools to support this organization’s objectives.

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