What You'll Learn
Methods that engage a distributed team
7 tools for becoming pro at virtual work
How to leverage digital artifacts as your center of gravity
7 Virtual Tools
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An experiential coaching workshop to level up your toolkits for facilitating virtual meetings like a Pro.
Running an unforgettable virtual workshop requires a flexible toolkit. Are you skilled up in the latest tools for keeping participant’s attention? In this fun, fast-paced, hands-on class, you’ll upgrade your facilitation skills with a new array of tools. Our facilitators will help you get your hands-on various virtual facilitation tools and methods, teaching when to use them and how they work.
You’ll use the tools so you can incorporate these jedi techniques into everyday virtual meetings like a pro. You’ll end the workshop with a new toolbelt for facilitating workshops online and the confidence to approach it with renewed energy and optimism. It’s not just about a more expansive toolbox, but developing internal resources that you can draw on to be a master facilitator.
What to Expect
Facilitating effective meetings is hard enough in person. In a virtual context, it requires even more attention to detail. And it takes more than just being aware of the tools - you need to know the correct recipes for unique contexts. How do you keep all participants engaged during virtual meetings? It takes a pro-level toolkit and mindset to leave virtual meeting participants excited about their next virtual meeting. In this workshop, you will experiment with many tools to get the most out of your distributed participants.
Our Approach
Keeping virtual meeting participants engaged requires more than an agenda or facilitation experience. We will coach you how to leverage 7 new tools (and we are always updating them) to engage in participatory decision making so each participant feels like the work is getting done in the meeting. Lastly, we will show you how to capture feedback so that each member in the meeting is leveling up.
Agenda
Deep Work Session 1
The 7 tools to foster creativity and capture virtual room intelligence
Deep Work Session 2
Why these virtual tools work
Deep Work Session 3
When to use them and potential combination recipes
Deep Work Session 4
Prepare for edge cases and level up with feedback like a pro
How You'll Learn
The class will be activity-based with facilitation simulations and collaborative sessions. You’ll have the chance to try new facilitation approaches and frameworks in a safe space. We won’t just talk at you — you’ll learn through doing, work with other participants, and get feedback. There will be plenty of time for Q&A, so you can learn from our experience running hundreds of workshops at some of the world’s largest enterprises.
Bringing a Team?
Discounts are 20% off for a group of 3-4
Discounts are 30% off for a group of 5+
Email hello@voltagecontrol.com for group discount codes
Wait, what's facilitation?
Whether you know it or not, you are probably a facilitator. Facilitators lead and guide teams through important gatherings (think: “lockdowns,” working sessions, strategic meetings, etc.) to achieve better outcomes. Facilitators create the meeting culture. They are skilled at developing focused agendas, leading collaborative activities, remaining impartial, and keeping participants on task. They design better meeting systems. Even if you are not a professional facilitator, many of us have to play the role of facilitator at key moments in our day-to-day work. Here’s your chance to learn tools to do it more successfully.
What People are Saying
"There are many choices for workshops, but in my mind there are very few who get it right. Douglas Ferguson and Voltage Control get it. If you are looking to learn a topic for the first time or level up your own skills or that of your team, then the virtual workshops offered by Voltage Control are a great option. Thanks to the workshops, we are now confidently moving beyond design thinking and regularly pushing prototypes into production."
Robert T.
VP & SENIOR CORPORATE COUNSEL at LIBERTY MUTUAL
"One of the best things about the Voltage Control community is that they setup a virtual learning space that covers every aspect of Edgar Dale’s classic cone of learning. They encompass the principles of adult learning without ever talking about it ... they just do it."
Ron K.
digital change consultant at ibm
About Douglas
Douglas is an entrepreneur and human-centered technologist with over 20 years of experience. He is president of Voltage Control, an Austin-based workshop agency that specializes in Design Sprints and innovation workshops. Prior to Voltage Control, Douglas held CTO positions at numerous Austin startups where he led product and engineering teams using agile, lean, and human-centered design principles. While CTO at Twyla, Douglas worked directly with Google Ventures running Design Sprints and now brings this experience and process to companies everywhere.
Douglas recently published Beyond the Prototype, which offers expert advice for people shifting from discovery projects to realization and launch. He is also the co-author of Start Within, How To Remix Anything, and Non-Obvious Guide to Fucking Awesome Meetings. Douglas is active in the Austin startup community where he serves on the board of several non-profits, mentors startups, and advises early-stage ventures. Douglas spends his free time patching up modular synthesizers, playing guitar, and taking photographs. He graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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 Fucking Awesome Meetings. He is finishing his third book 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.
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