Certain members overtaking the conversation.
Feelings of insecurity around speaking up.Workshop participants experience their own problems: Talking to facilitators, I collected the most frequent challenges they faced when transitioning their workshops from in-person to virtual:īut it’s not just facilitators who encounter difficulties. The common pain points of meeting facilitation and participation
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Unlearning and learning how to communicate efficiently in a virtual environment comes with plenty of challenges. The moment we lose our best communication interface, the face-to-face interaction, we're forced to change the way we understand each other. And the virtual environment will amplify all our negative feelings while muting an otherwise positive experience. Some team collaboration sessions empower, engage, and inspire, while others leave us disappointed, depleted and frustrated, regretting the time we have just lost. Unfortunately, not all are created equal. So what will this new world of virtual collaboration look like? How would we talk to each other? How would we share ideas and align our understanding? What would we value? How would we make decisions? How would we innovate? Today, the answer to many of these questions is often virtual workshops. As explorers, we have always found a way. The new context has brought new challenges, new dynamics as well as new possibilities. Our world has changed, and so did the way we work and collaborate. We are explorers by nature, always looking to discover new worlds, pushing beyond our limits. Communication matters, whether it's through a screen or face to face