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Date: March 17, 2021
Time: 6pm – 9pm
PMI Category: Technical
PDU (Professional Development Units): 3
Cost:  $80 for PMI-SVC Chapter members.  $85 for non-members

Presenter Biography:

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.

Shelby Pierce - Shelby helps groups and organizations that traditionally met in-person to create meaningful and productive online meetings. She has 10 years of experience in the financial services and healthcare sectors. Shelby has a rich background in community organizing and serves on the executive committee for several nonprofit boards. Taking her experience facilitating a variety of meetings across many different sectors, she now facilitates and produces virtual gatherings.

Presentation Description: 

3-hour session

Designed for those that feel good about the basics of facilitating online meetings and are ready to add more pizazz to their next online collaboration.

Facilitators need to learn new, creative ways to engage participants. Many new tools and tricks have emerged in recently. But tools and tricks are not enough. They are only valuable when they support the meeting purpose. We will help you identify which tools are appropriate where. You will learn what tools to use to keep participants engaged and interested.

Participants build skills to successfully facilitate online meeting by learning to:

• Develop confidence in utilizing multiple tools simultaneously to enhance meeting goals
• Experience a variety of tools in various scenarios
• Apply the online meeting design framework for selecting appropriate tools
• Assess whether to use tools in various situations

Agenda

During this fast-paced session, you’ll use tools and learn new ways to impress participants when:

• Informing
• Seeking Feedback
• Brainstorming
• Collaborating
• Making a Decision

Comments from Previous Participants

"It provided me (a relatively tech-savvy, frequent Zoom user) lots of new ways of taking online meetings to the next level. It was excellently facilitated. I left with ideas that I can use."

"A fast-paced learning experience of how to utilize a variety of tools to enhance the online/virtual meeting experience."

“The workshop provided tremendous tools to inform, engage and collaborate in this new environment of a virtual community. Moreover, a new way to make meetings fun!"