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Pete Sparreboom Member Profile All Messages By This Member #1216 Hello all, Our client is proposing a set of blended face-to-face/ zoom workshops for participants from two different countries. Their idea is to bring the participants from one country together in a room with a big screen, and have the participants from the other country: Either come together in another room with a big screen, and connect via Zoom Or each dial in to Zoom individually The facilitator will dial in from her computer. A representative from the client will be present in the room (or rooms) where several people come together, and act as co-facilitator. I would appreciate some advice here from people who have done something similar, with particular attention to the following questions for both case A and case B: How to establish effective communication between participants from the two countries? How to organise group work between people from the two countries without interference? While these are the questions I could think of, you may know of questions I am forgetting to ask. Thank you very much for any tips and tricks you may have! Pete Sparreboom Digital Catalyser – Director, PHB Academy Whatsapp: +33 677 817563 Skype: petesparreboom ?
Steve McCann All Messages By This Member #1217 Hello Peter, i look forward to seeing responses here! One remote, all remote, would be my approach.? Both A and B present a number of avoidable problems. I would not want to be the remote facilitator in either, unless it was to get some practice doing a very sub optimal thing.? I look forward to hearing from others on this steve
John Sechrest All Messages By This Member #1219 I have tried to do hybrid events with some people in a room and some people remote. They have been many different configurations. I would have to double down on what Steve is saying of "One remote -> All remote"...? It almost never has good results to do the hybrid format.? You might be able to do small clusters if everyone is small clusters, but for the most part, one on one remote is the pattern that works. That is, everyone is on their own computer.? One of the key magical pieces of that, is that everyone is at a keyboard.So you are able to jointly edit files, to have side conversations, take notes, and otherwise digitally engage more richly.?? It supports voting/polling much much better. It supports the opportunity to share other resources like book lists or article references. If a conversation is happening, then when someone mentions a resource, some of the audience can get the link to that resource and post it into the notes, or into the chat.? We often create a shared editiable?google doc for all of the participants to jointly edit. This leaves us with a reasonable draft of key issues at the end of the conversations.? That is hard to do any other way.? When you have more than a few people physically in the same space, with a remote person on the other side, then the conversations shift to one side or the other, but not both.? So someone gets cut out of the conversation.? We have done information sessions, work sessions, even Angel investment pitches with these formats and learned the hard way about where it fails. "One remote --> All remote" toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 2:12 PM <p@...> wrote: Hello all, Our client is proposing a set of blended face-to-face/ zoom workshops for participants from two different countries. Their idea is to bring the participants from one country together in a room with a big screen, and have the participants from the other country: Either come together in another room with a big screen, and connect via Zoom Or each dial in to Zoom individually The facilitator will dial in from her computer. A representative from the client will be present in the room (or rooms) where several people come together, and act as co-facilitator. I would appreciate some advice here from people who have done something similar, with particular attention to the following questions for both case A and case B: How to establish effective communication between participants from the two countries? How to organise group work between people from the two countries without interference? While these are the questions I could think of, you may know of questions I am forgetting to ask. Thank you very much for any tips and tricks you may have! Pete Sparreboom Digital Catalyser – Director, PHB Academy Whatsapp: +33 677 817563 Skype: petesparreboom ? -- JOHN SECHREST Founder,?Seattle Angel Conference TEL??(541) 250-0844? ??EMAIL??sechrest@... ? @sechrest
Bev Matthews All Messages By This Member #1221 I agree John - being together in a room can offer a bridge for collaboration but having everyone logged in individual increases the diversity of inclusion and engagement, especially if there are interactive elements such as annotation or polls Hope that's helpful
[email protected] #1226 Hi Pete, Blended workshops can be difficult, but in some cases (e.g. regions with limited internet access), you have to work with what you have! Having a person in the room designated to be? your eyes and ears is helpful - reading body language for comprehension, seeing if people have questions, if energy is lagging and a break is needed, etc. You can have video running the whole time, and have a separate call as needed with the client if you need to switch things up, or just to check in throughout the workshop. If it is important to connect individuals between rooms/countries, having a separate video call line(s) set up in the room for people to have groups/pairs between rooms might work (especially if the main large video call is projected through the entire room). You could do multiple, short, breakouts between rooms, rotating group members, so that there are connections made between countries. These breakouts could be for warmups/introductions, or ideation/interviewing. Trina
Pete Sparreboom Member Profile All Messages By This Member #1242 Dear John, Steve, Bev and Trina, ? Thank you so much for your various answers to my question about doing a blended workshop with some together in a room with a big screen and others calling in individually. You have given me quite a few arguments for pushing back a bit on the concept my client has proposed. Based on your feedback I have now suggested a set of workshops that get everyone onto their own computer at least part of the time. Hope to meet with them next week to discuss. ? Grateful for the time you took to share your experience! ? Pete ? Pete Sparreboom Digital Catalyser – Director, PHB Academy Whatsapp: +33 677 817563 Skype: petesparreboom ? ? Pete Sparreboom Digital Catalyser – Director, PHB Academy Whatsapp: +33 677 817563 Skype: petesparreboom ? ?
John Sechrest All Messages By This Member #1243 Thank you Pete. I hope you will share how the process turns out in the end.? toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 12:26 AM <p@...> wrote: Dear John, Steve, Bev and Trina, ? Thank you so much for your various answers to my question about doing a blended workshop with some together in a room with a big screen and others calling in individually. You have given me quite a few arguments for pushing back a bit on the concept my client has proposed. Based on your feedback I have now suggested a set of workshops that get everyone onto their own computer at least part of the time. Hope to meet with them next week to discuss. ? Grateful for the time you took to share your experience! ? Pete ? Pete Sparreboom Digital Catalyser – Director, PHB Academy Whatsapp: +33 677 817563 Skype: petesparreboom ? ? Pete Sparreboom Digital Catalyser – Director, PHB Academy Whatsapp: +33 677 817563 Skype: petesparreboom ? ? -- JOHN SECHREST Founder,?Seattle Angel Conference TEL??(541) 250-0844? ??EMAIL??sechrest@... ? @sechrest
Steve McCann All Messages By This Member #1248 You are welcome.? one last thought,? consider using the Meeting Owl camera microphone. Google it, easy to find. It is good at helping to show who of talking in the group side, something that is otherwise quite hard, unless they stand to talk or use a speaking stick! s

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