We’ve all been meeting virtually for a long time now, and there is no shortage of articles, videos, webinars, and books on how to do...
read moreVirtual Meetings: What We’ve Learned About the Human Side of Communication
February 7, 2023 0 Comments
Avoiding the Perils of Proximity Bias in Hybrid Meetings
July 15, 2022 0 Comments
One lasting effect of the pandemic has been an upheaval in people’s expectations of where and how they work. Job-seekers are targeting remote-only positions that...
read moreBuilding Facilitation Training Skills for Faculty Members
July 1, 2022 0 Comments
When people participate in Turpin workshops, individual members and teams enjoy a host of secondary benefits beyond greater comfort with their own communication skills. Managers...
read moreFive Things VIRTUAL Learners Want Us to Know
January 26, 2022 0 Comments
A while back, I wrote a blog post about what learners really want trainers to know about their experience and expectations in a learning environment,...
read moreManaging Conflict in Virtual Meetings
October 4, 2021 0 Comments
This article was inspired by a question posed by a client in a recent virtual workshop. She asked: If you are part of a virtual...
read moreLeadership That Fosters Successful Hybrid Meetings
August 12, 2021 0 Comments
In other blog posts, we’ve been talking about hybrid meetings: how to lead them successfully, how to practice good participation behaviors, and even how to...
read moreHybrid Meetings: Being a Productive Participant
July 26, 2021 0 Comments
In our first post on hybrid meetings, we talked about best practices for managing focus when leading meetings with some people in the room and...
read moreHybrid Meetings: Projecting Professionalism
July 2, 2021 0 Comments
One of the many interesting observations from the pandemic is the evolution of people’s Zoom backgrounds. Initially, everyone was excited to play with the virtual...
read moreHybrid Meetings: Managing the Focal Point
April 28, 2021 0 Comments
One thing the pandemic has shown is that people can work efficiently from home. A lot of major corporations, including Salesforce, Google, and Amazon, are working on a...
read moreDry Runs: The Key to Training Readiness in the Virtual World
August 14, 2020 0 Comments
In our book, Effective SMEs: A Trainer’s Guide for Helping Subject Matter Experts Facilitate Learning, Dale Ludwig and I encourage trainers (and subject matter experts turned...
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