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6 Surprising Functions that my iPad Delivers for Virtual Facilitation

By Jose Casal / 22nd February 2024

Whenever Jean-Paul Bayley and I are facilitating one of our legendary (!) virtual classes, workshops or interactive sessions, I have my iPad connected to the session as a backup device to significantly improve the quality of our virtual facilitation. Here are 6 surprising functions that my iPad delivers: 1. It’s a backup device.While my main device is […]

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Is Live Virtual Training Helping Learners?

By JP Bayley / 10th February 2021

8-hour training days may be the norm for in-person training, but should we consider this format for Live Virtual Training? Back in April 2020, I published a post called “When Everything is Suddenly Virtual”. In it I looked at what scientists and expert practitioners were saying and concluded that Shorter Trumps Longer (Bowman, 2011) when

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4 Differences Between the Virtual and the In-person TBR Classes

By Sharon Bowman / 3rd November 2020

The questions have come up many times: “What are the differences between the ‘Training from the BACK of the Room’ Virtual Edition (TBR-VE) Class and the in-person TBR Practitioner Class? Are the classes interchangeable? Does one class replace the other?” Here are 4 major differences between the TBR-VE Class and the in-person TBR Practitioner Class:

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Effective Breakout Facilitation and How to Avoid Breakout Loneliness

By Jose Casal / 5th October 2020

After months facilitating, producing and attending live virtual events, I have observed a recurring range of mistakes we often do as meeting hosts that can have an impact on the effectiveness and success of the event. One of the areas that frequently catches us is how to set up and deliver an effective use of

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6 Staging Tips for Facilitating Virtual Classes

By Sharon Bowman / 19th May 2020

“Platform skills” is the term most often used for face-to-face presentations: the presenter’s voice tone, body movement, facial expressions, movement, and energy. Let’s translate all of that to the virtual world with “staging.” What is Staging? “Staging” in the virtual world is defined as everything that is live-streamed by the virtual class presenter/trainer/host. Staging includes

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Suddenly Virtual – Tips to run awesome virtual events

By Jose Casal / 7th May 2020

Abstract Vast swathes of our workforce are suddenly forced to work remotely and we are having to learn quickly how to adapt our working practices to virtual environments. Actineo is a consultancy specialising in Business Agility Coaching and Training where all its members are fully distributed. We have experienced a lot of successes and failures

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Small Trumps Large When Training Online

By JP Bayley / 20th April 2020

This is part of a series of posts investigating the 6 Trumps for Live Virtual Classes which we introduced in our post When Everything Is Suddenly Virtual. We suggest that Small Trumps Large. What does this mean? For example, when it comes to class size, our thinking is that smaller groups are better than large

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When Everything Is Suddenly Virtual

By JP Bayley / 14th April 2020

The last few weeks have been pretty tough on everyone. The new “normal” is quite different, and we have no idea what “normal” will look like when things “return back to normal”. So what have we been up to? I love working with my colleagues at Actineo because we pride ourselves on doing a job

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