Virtual organizing and meeting
How To Facilitate Effective Virtual Meetings
Beth Kanter’s best tips and practices for managing and facilitating virtual meetings.
Beth Kanter
Poll Everywhere
Host interactive online meetings and bring powerful insights to your presentations.
Poll Everywhere
Padlet
Padlet is like paper for your screen. Start with an empty page and then put whatever you like on it. Upload a video, record an interview, snap a selfie, write your own text posts or upload some documents, and watch your padlet come to life.
Padlet
Mentimeter
Create interactive presentations & meetings with live polls, quizzes, word clouds, Q&As.
Mentimeter
Tips for Online Retreats and Meetings
A thorough but easy-to-read presentation packed with tips on getting the most from online meetings and retreats, how to keep participants engaged, and facilitating open communication digitally.
North Star Fund
How To Facilitate Effective Virtual Meetings
In light of the Coronavirus, many nonprofits are engaging in scenario planning. The list of conferences cancelled is growing, with some now being delivered a virtual gatherings. It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills.
Beth Kanter
Leading Groups Online
A down-and-dirty guide to leading online courses, meetings, trainings, and events during the coronavirus pandemic. Using their combined two decades of online facilitation, Jeanne and Daniel walk you through the basics of how to lead sessions online. They give you their top 10 principles for leading online groups, introduce you to interactive tools you can lead online, and answer commonly asked questions.
Jeanne Rewa and Daniel Hunter
SWITCH PATHWAYS
We move through change each day – it is a constant in our lives. These are the building blocks of sustainability for living in this moment and throughout the long road ahead.
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There can be a deep sense of urgency for change that drives us to action before we have fully aligned our purpose and outcomes. This can lead to disruptions, unnecessary conflict and ultimately failure of our plans. Here are valuable guides for aligning intention and action to save energy, resources and time.
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To make change in our society, we need to understand the fundamentals of how decision making happens, in our teams, through our social identities, and in our systems of power.
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Work for diversity, equity and inclusion achieves lasting impact when we orient our energy towards structural change and integrate structural change tools into our programs and operations. This pathway provides support for analyzing structures and transforming them for justice.
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Breaking the status quo and opening up new possibilities for equity and freedom in our work requires innovative experiments. Teams must ensure that all members have the ability to act on the vision and goals they are co-creating.
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Our minds cannot move toward racial justice, equity or transformation if our bodies are not prepared for change. This pathway offers those preparations that we have found most beneficial to adult learning.
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