Live Connections: Virtual Facilitation for High Engagement and Powerful Learning brings a fresh new perspective to the world of virtual communication, offering the insight and tools you need to unleash the enormous potential of today's technology. It provides state-of-the-art theory and cutting-edge practices to help you design, prepare, and deliver effective virtual events of all kinds.
Through this engaging presentation, authors Judith Tavanyar and Fredrik Fogelberg bring considerable experience in areas that include corporate training, team building, group dynamics, and virtual facilitation and coaching. Practising what they preach when it comes to facilitating virtual sessions about which people can really get excited, they inject playfulness and passion into their discussion of this very timely subject.
The discussion is wide-ranging, covering everything from which technology to choose and why it's best, to assigning a producer for technical support, to designing events that accommodate the needs of different audiences in different contexts and developing your facilitation style. The book also uniquely focuses on the much-overlooked topic of cross-cultural aspects of facilitation-making it relevant for readers from any culture.
Live Connections is a must-read for anyone seeking to explore the possibilities of people working together in virtual space.
About the Author: Judith Tavanyar is an international leadership coach, group facilitator, and trainer with more than twenty-seven years of experience. She has trained and coached senior executives for more than thirty corporations in all industries. Qualified as a family psychotherapist, she combines leadership communication, HR development, and systemic psychology with business experience. Having participated in Nomadic's Virtual Facilitation Skills programme, she now delivers some 50 percent of her training and coaching over the Internet.
Fredrik Fogelberg is the cofounder and owner of Nomadic International Business Psychology, a Netherlands-based international leadership development consultancy. With almost thirty years of experience in corporate training, cross-cultural training, executive coaching, and team facilitation, he has been building expertise around virtual teams and their leadership. His special interest is in the group dynamics of intercultural teams, and he is a registered organizational psychologist and associate faculty of various business schools, including the Center for Creative Leadership.
