Workshops can be frustrating face-to-face. Sometimes they're silent, tense, and awkward. Sometimes a dominant personality takes over and makes it all about them.
You might assume that it'd be pointless to even try it online. Surely adding another layer of complication - the technology - would make the whole thing fall apart.
But it can work. You can run successful workshops online.
First, you need to get the technology right. If you don't need help with this, fine - that's good news. But, if you do, we'll help you figure out what combination of collaboration and videoconferencing software is going to work best, and then we'll work with that combination throughout the training.
Second, we'll make sure that you can moderate online successfully. Managing a group of people remotely is obviously pretty different from doing it in the room. We'll make sure that you have the skills you need to make it balanced, cooperative, and creative.
Third, we'll show you how to optimise your methodology. Methodology forms the thinking environment for the workshop. Get it wrong, and the results are predictable and depressing: brain-freeze and awkward silence, punctuated mainly by the people who like the sound of their own voice or who have axes to grind. Get it right, and the results are productive and uplifting: a group of people thinking together - creatively, critically, or courageously.
Two-day online workshop skills course
Our two day course empowers participants to build a thinking environment - an environment in which their own participants will find it effortless to use their brains in a productive way - in the online world. Whether you need your workshop participants to think more creatively, more cooperatively, or more critically, we'll show you how to manipulate the psychological and technological environment so that they do just that.
£2500
Pre-consultation, course design, and course reporting included
Optimal group size: 6 participants