The Remote Workshop Workshop will teach you how to design and facilitate remote workshops so that you can connect people and enable them to work collaboratively and creatively online. This is an immersive session where you will get the chance to experience a remote workshop as a participant and then reflect on it as a facilitator.

Where and how you facilitate your workshops has changed; the effect that COVID-19 has had on business is likely to impact the way that workshops are delivered forever. After realising that organisations can manage remotely, your clients are going to want a facilitator that is able to deliver brilliant remote workshops. In this workshop you’ll learn the remote facilitation skills that you can put into practice immediately.

“The team felt like they had a newfound confidence in their ability to run engaging and productive remote workshops. They applauded the fact that the Remote Workshop Workshop delivered the right mix of practical remote tools and soft skills to take forward.” Scott McGregor, Innovation Lead, O2

This workshop is delivered as 2 x 2-hour sessions.

Part 1 Learning the Remote Ropes

You will learn:

• How to plan your workshop; considering content, how to enable human connection and manage the challenges of technology
• Different types of collaboration based on our research with Cambridge University, to impact how you design your workshop
• How to kick-start your online workshop by setting objectives and social contracts
• How to run icebreakers and energisers
• How to use simple online collaborative tools with clients

Part 2 Becoming an Online Wiz

You will learn:

• How to generate and maintain energy for yourself and your participants
• How to ensure people stay focused, on track and on time
• How to manage challenging behaviours and think about what it means to "read the room" which is a lot harder to do online
• About facilitator self-care and co-facilitator communication
• How to use core features on Mural and experience collaborative exercises on Mural as a participant

The first workshop is on August 27th from 10.00am - 12.00pm

The second workshop is on August 27th from 14:00pm - 16.00pm