Run Meetings & Workshops with Microsoft Teams and Whiteboard – Download Free

Design,create and facilitate online sessions that provide a great experience & produce outcomes using Teams & Whiteboad
Free Download What you'll learn
Create outcome-focused robust sessions using the POISED® methodology, mitigating the reasons sessions fail to achieve outcomes & reducing facilitation stress
Ensuring your Purpose and Outcomes are clear and fit with the bigger picture the session is part of
Learn to Identify questions that, if answered, get the group to outcomes in the session
Ensure you have the correct stakeholders and attendees to get outcomes in your session and post-session
How exercises help you, how they work "under the bonnet". Enabling you to select the most suitable activities for your session
Understand how to use a range of joint exercises for problem identification, problem-solving, solution creation and innovation
How and when to use the collaborative features in the whiteboard, including the latest features like "Follow me", Timers, Collaborative cursors
The facilitation skills to practice in the session to provide an engaging experience and more importantly, lead everyone to productive outcomes
Understand the steps you need to take to ensure momentum in and post-session for any actions, ensuring progress for you and your organisation
How to leverage feedback to enhance your session creation and facilitation using short surveys etc
Understand tips and tricks that will prevent your session from going off track and enable a better attendee experience
Requirements
Access to Microsoft Teams - (Currently free if you dont have access with your organisation)
Basic Powerpoint skills to create assets you will use to guide attendees
Basic Excel skills to enter information into a session planner which will be provided
No previous experience in session planning or facilitation skills required!
Description
This course addresses the reasons workshops and meetings fail to produce outcomes by providing a fail-safe methodology designed for those within organisations to ensure that workshops and meetings are both collaborative and productive.Part 1) Design and prepare for your sessionWe understand how to optimise your PC Setup You will work step by step through designing each session with POISED®, the six-step methodology that encompassesPurpose: we cover making sure the session is relevant to your client, organisation or partnersOutcomes: we will learn to define realistic and measurable outcomes for the session that achieve buy-in from participants and deliver business valueIdentify Questions: we will identify questions that if collectively answered by attendees, will deliver those outcomesStakeholders: we select attendees by their ability to answer questions or their power and interest to drive outcomesExercises: we leverage collaborative exercises that give everyone a voice and answer the questions in the most expedient and collaborative wayDetailed plan: we document a detailed logical plan for the session to ensure the session is robust and also to reduce the stress of facilitating on the dayPart 2) Leverage Microsoft Teams and Whiteboard Once your session is prepared, we will explore and understand how to leverage the array of collaborative features of Microsoft Teams and Whiteboard, including Setting up a Team meeting and tuning the meeting optionsSetting up a Whiteboard ahead of the sessionSharing content Presenting yourself professionallyRecording the sessionLive note taking with automated sharingOptimising sound and videoRaise hands feature and identifying noiseCollaborative cursors and  "Follow me" to track and ensure engagementLeveraging built in templated or importing your ownSharing video in a whiteboardUsing Pens and perfect shapes to make the facilitation more professionalPart 3) Facilitate the session to provide a great attendee experience and ensure you achieve tangible outcomes by the end of the sessionWe will understand the specific skills to develop to facilitate a great session, covering aspects such asGreeting people effectively, building rapport, opening effectively, managing time, supporting people, maintaining energy, maintaining impartiality, providing clear instructions, dealing with difficult behaviour, leveraging conflict to get even better outcomes, priming attendees for progress post-session, closing the session effectively You will be able to run collaborative sessions that are focused, flow well, and provide an all-round great experience!Part 4) Post-session activityWe will go through the steps required to ensure momentum is not lost by yourself or other attendees on any post-session activities and how you can learn from each session in order to enhance your skills as a facilitator.
Who this course is for
This is designed to take a novice who has never facilitated a session or used MS Teams or Whiteboard on a journey to produce outcomes and develop higher-than-average facilitation skills
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https://www.udemy.com/course/facilitate-run-meetings-workshops-with-microsoft-teams-and-whiteboard/