Do’s And Don’ts Of Virtual Meetings
7 Pitfalls and Best Practices for Gathering Remotely You know and have likely experienced the unique challenges associated with not being able to meet in person. But there are incredible opportunities as well. I’m fortunate to get to work with some of the smartest leaders and educators on the planet to help them make virtual […]
What are Good Ice Breaker Activities?
What are really good ice breaker activities? Assuming that you don’t want to lead exercises that are crap or give people hives when they hear the word icebreaker or team building. You’re in the right place. In this video, I’m going to share 3 of my absolute favorite icebreaker activities and 3 strategies to help […]
What Is It Like To Participate In A Virtual Meeting
Navigating the Critics, Consumers and Contributors People are usually surprised to find out that my job is helping others have better virtual gatherings. At least that’s part of what I do. I’ve facilitated over 500 interactive remote meetings, webinars and interactive keynotes—interactive being the key word here. And I love it! I exist on the […]
How are Virtual Meetings Different from Face to Face?
7 Differences—and 1 Key Similarity With awareness of key differences and similarities, we can design better meetings. My job is working with some of the most intelligent and innovative companies and universities to help make connection and engagement easy. When that happens, meetings and events come alive. But to do this, we must first understand […]
How to Make Online Meetings More Engaging
5 Essential Ingredients to Increase Virtual Connection OK, so let’s be honest: Done wrong, virtual meetings can be exhausting and boring. Your team may already be ready to check out before you’ve even gotten started. But that doesn’t mean you have to resign yourself to dull, passive online gatherings. In fact, I’ve taught tens of […]
What is a Good Icebreaker for a Meeting?
This is an important question to answer because when we meet, if we don’t invite people to contribute and connect, we’re missing out on value. Luckily my job is to help some of the top organizations and universities on the planet make connection and engagement really easy. I’m not going to hold back. In this […]
What are Some Fun Team Building Activities?
I’m assuming you’re looking for something to do with your group. If that’s the case, you come to the right place. I am Chad. I used to teach team building facilitation at Penn State University. Now, I get to do it for some of the smartest, most innovative organizations and universities on the planet. I […]
Engaging Virtual Backgrounds
We’ve been sharing heaps of content recently on our YouTube Channel about how to make virtual engagement easy. By popular demand, we created a handful of virtual backgrounds for Zoom that you can use to prompt meaningful conversations and connection before content in breakouts or the large group on Zoom. Right click to download our […]
3 Super Useful Hidden Features on Zoom
Here are 3 hidden features to help make connection really easy over Zoom. They are hidden because they are not necessarily right on the main menu but they’re awfully useful. 1) How to share music directly through somebody’s speakers If you want to create a little bit of engagement especially at the beginning of a […]
How Communication Impacts the Bottom Line
This mini-article is an excerpt from our brand new Second Edition book, Ask Powerful Questions: Create Conversations that Matter. There are dozens of these scattered throughout the book in little “conversation bubble callouts.” If you like this one idea, we trust you’ll love the book and find an immense amount of value in the way that […]
