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Speaker: Rod Githens, PhD and Nileen Verbeten, MSW, MBA
Topic: Designing Powerful Online Meeting Experiences

Presentation:  How do we meaningfully engage stakeholders through online videoconferences? During this time of physical distancing, many of us have no other option for engaging key stakeholders. In this hands-on session, you’ll learn how to design meaningful online experiences, utilize the medium appropriately, and create interactive online experiences.
 This session is  an interactive training session and not a passive webinar.

This will be a virtual meeting.  Register and you will receive a confirmation email with your Zoom meeting information. This event is limited to 30 attendees.

Trainers
Rod Githens, PhD - Rod has led distributed teams for many years and taught online since 2004. He has extensive experience engaging groups online through innovation activities, strategic planning, and organization change processes. He's an Associate Professor of Leadership and Organization Development at University of the Pacific. Rod has also owned a consulting business since 2011, Githens and Associates. With a team of colleagues, he helps organizations serve their customers at levels they didn’t realize were possible through innovation, design, and strategy.

Nileen Verbeten, MSW, MBA - Nileen has worked with geographically distributed teams since 2010. She has been teaching an online course in virtual facilitation since 2015, with participants spanning 11 time zones. As a facilitator with Sacramento Professional Facilitators, she works with organizations in both face-to-face and virtual environments to align their efforts to create the future they desire.

Designing Powerful Online Meeting Experiences

How do we meaningfully engage stakeholders through online videoconferences? During this time of physical distancing, many of us have no other option for engaging key stakeholders. In this hands-on session, you’ll learn how to design meaningful online experiences, utilize the medium appropriately, and create interactive online experiences.

Comments from Previous Participants

"This is the best webinar I've attended and I've been to many in the recent info-overwhelm mode."

"This was a great learning opportunity. Provided practical advice and tools, kept things moving, and allowed us to directly experiment with the tools. Plus, your energy was calming, which is so important right now."

"You walked your talk...you demonstrated, gave us time to practice, engage, etc and use lots of the tools. Two excellent trainers with an outstanding facilitation partnership."

Goals for Session
By the conclusion of this session, participants should:
• Understand the fundamentals of online meeting design and facilitation
• Design the critical elements of an online meeting
• Identify the appropriate technological tools to use in a given meeting
• Use and identify compelling interactive visuals to engage participants
Note: This session is not a technical training on specific tools, rather an introduction to creating meaningful online experiences. However, we will share free technical training resources, which are publicly available.

Technology Requirements
We will use Zoom and Google Slides. Free versions of both tools are available. The session is applicable even if you use other online communication tools such as WebEx, GoToMeeting, Skype, or Microsoft Teams. Because of the interactive nature of the session, we ask that you engage for the full session, using both audio and video.