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Facilitate your virtual meeting

Facilitate your virtual meeting

From the course: Leading Virtual Meetings

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Facilitate your virtual meeting

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- To facilitate means to make easier and clearly since virtual meetings can be hard, if you can learn how to make them easier we can get far better results. As important as effective facilitation is in regular meetings, it's even more important and misunderstood in virtual ones. Here are some tips to help you get more interaction and better outcomes. Wait longer for input. In a face-to-face meeting people get clues from each other visually, if they're going to say something. When a meeting is done virtually these cues and clues don't exist, even webcams don't solve it completely. So if you want people's contributions, pause give them more time to share, and you'll be rewarded with more input. Call on people, because people don't want to step on top of each other or interrupt someone else, it may be helpful to invite them to comment individually. Use questions effectively, not as a weapon you know what I mean,…

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