How to Plan and Facilitate an Engaging Virtual Meeting

Goal: To help stakeholders feel clear and confident about planning and facilitating meetings that will be held on an online platform.
Learning Outcome: Participants will be able to identify strategies for planning, preparing, and facilitating virtual meetings.

Training Description: Do you facilitate meetings? Are you feeling overwhelmed at the prospect of doing it online? Are you worried that it might be too impersonal to build relationships? Almost overnight, we have been thrust into a virtual world. Words like “Zoom,” “working remotely” and “social distancing” roll off our tongues as if we’ve been saying them our whole lives. What are the critical steps required to design and deliver a virtual meeting? How do you keep your participants actively engaged and involved? What types of visuals inspire and help to anchor information? This 75-minute training is packed with clear, practical strategies that you’ll be able to easily apply. (And it’s fun.)

Training Instructor: Cathy Angell, M.Ed., is the owner of Cathy Angell Communications and specializes in presentation design and delivery for scientists, educators, and public officials. She was the former coordinator of Washington’s Coastal Training Program, considered to be one of the most successful training programs in the country for coastal managers. Cathy is nationally known for her transformative methods and received a communications award from NOAA which is given out each year in her honor. While sheltering in place, Cathy designed this training as a way to support others in navigating this new virtual reality.