Collaborating in Zoom
Turn your zoom calls into workshops that create progress and connection
There is much more to Zoom than just sharing your screen and unmuting yourself.
This workshop will leave you a pro with all of Zoom’s advanced features that can immediately level-up the next Zoom call you are hosting.
What to Expect
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Agenda
What is a Zoom facilitator responsible for?
Organizing Work
All of the key features to use for helping you and your participants do the work in the virtual meeting.
Facilitation Tools
Breakout Rooms, Music Sharing, Q&A, Renaming, Facilitating, and chatting like a pro.
Advanced Features
Identify what advanced features to use in the next Zoom meeting you are facilitating.
Who Should Attend?
Managers
who want to keep their Zoom meeting attendees focused and engaged.
Facilitators
who want to get the most out of the most popular video conferencing platform.
Teachers
who want to create a video call that is an engaging learning experience.
Anybody
who has pivoted to remote working and needs to level up their skills.
What You'll Learn
You will become a pro at getting the most out of Zoom so that you can 1) Host virtual meetings that foster collaboration, creativity, and more engagement for your Zoom meeting guests 2) Manage virtual collaboration with a group of any size.
How You'll Learn
You will learn by exploring all of the advanced features in Zoom, and then you’ll take them for a spin!
Key Takeaways
What are all of the features available in Zoom
Which features can help you create better focus and collaboration on a group Zoom call
Pro tips with all of the advanced features within Zoom
What settings to tweak in your Zoom account to get the most out of these features
Interested in attending multiple mini workshops?
Bundle 3 mini workshops for $300
Email tara@voltagecontrol.com for workshop bundle discount codes
About John
John is an entrepreneur and business coach. He is Chief Product Officer of Voltage Control, where we prototypes tools to help people facilitate better meetings. He enjoys designing technology through unlearning and the generous act of sonder. Prior to Voltage Control, John was Entrepreneur in Residence at Animal Ventures where he advised Fortune 100 leadership on their prototyping practices and led distributed software teams at the intersection of machine learning, robotics, and decentralized computing. John also worked directly with Google Ventures running Design Sprints and now coaches organizations how to develop rapid prototyping practices within their culture.
John is a co-author to two books with Douglas Ferguson: How To Remix Anything and Non-Obvious Guide to Magical Meetings and is an author of Time Off - a look at how modern society is burning us out, why time off and creativity will be a crucial component to the future of human work, and the solutions to help us all prioritize our “rest ethic.” John spends his leisure time farming, hosting dinner parties, and practicing Jiu Jitsu. He graduated from University of Texas at Austin and is a proud alumni of Seth Godin’s altMBA.
About Douglas
Douglas Ferguson is an entrepreneur and human-centered technologist with over 20 years of experience. He is the founder and president of Voltage Control, an Austin-based facilitation agency that specializes in helping teams work better together through participatory decision making and design inspired facilitation techniques. He has helped transform teams from U.S. SOCOM, the Air Force, Adobe, Dropbox, Fidelity, Vrbo, Liberty Mutual, Humana, and SAIC.
Douglas is a thought leader and master facilitator of Design Sprints, Innovation Acceleration, Team Alignment, Meeting Systems, Culture Transitions, and Change Transformations. He is also the author of three books: Beyond the Prototype, How to Remix Anything (co-authored), and Start Within (co-authored).
Motivated by a mission to rid the world of horrible meetings and offer meaningful meetings in their place, Voltage Control is calling upon fellow facilitators to transform meeting and innovation culture. From free weekly community meetups to Control the Room–the annual facilitator summit, Voltage Control is building a community of facilitators to change the world.
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