The secret sauce for effective communication and engaging collaboration
Online Facilitation
From zero to Pro
Have you ever experienced any of these situations?
- You were leading an online meeting and enthusiastically asked a question from the audience and no one answered?
- While teaching an online webinar where you were teaching an amazing concept, you asked people to type in the chat box and engage with you and they simply did nothing?
- In an online workshop you were running, you struggled to design exercises that would engage both on camera and off-camera participants?
What if you could turn every boring unproductive online meeting into an engaging virtual workshop that could leave participants energized and fulfilled as well as get the problems solved?
With online facilitation skills, you can do that and more. This course is designed as a 5-module self-study experience, in which you will learn the mindset and practical skills of online facilitation that you can apply right away to your work environment. In each module you get both theory and practice. You learn in the course and you practice your learned skills in your assignments.
Throughout this course you will learn how to better accommodate different communication and learning styles, as well as design online exercises that are suitable for different group sizes. Through exercises, you will understand the foundations of online facilitation and learn how to truly transform the way your organization hosts online meetings.
You are only one step away from learning the skills that can help you become the person who can create engagement in every meeting.
In this immersive course you will learn how to:
- Build connection and trust among remote team members
- Go beyond technology to really be present and engage people
- Facilitate for different styles of learning (visual, verbal, tactile)
- Turn online meetings into effective decision-making events
- Engage your team’s creative power regardless of timezone
- Build a collaborative remote team that gets results and feels happy
Mindset of online facilitation:
The underlying mindset that makes or breaks every online meeting regardless of tools or practices, and helps you engage people every time.
Small and big group online facilitation:
You will gain hands-on skills to facilitate small group and big group online meetings and workshops.
Hands-on tactics for hybrid facilitation
You will not only learn principles and gain a remote-first mindsets but also tactics that you can put into practice today in any team you are a part of.
This course Includes:
- Over 20 self-study videos and workbooks
- Video, text and audio to train your adaptability even during your learning experience
- Personal feedback on your assignments
- Direct access to Remote Forever™ coaches for Q&A
- A certificate of completion
- Access to a community of over 1000 like minded people
Who is this course for?
This course is NOT for you if:
- You’re looking for learning how to use specific tools.
- You think that online meetings are just meetings over video calls.
- You are looking for quick tips and tricks on how to set up your remote work workspace (camera, laptop, microphone, etc).
- If you are not willing to go beyond your comfort zone and try a new way of thinking and doing.
This course IS for you if you are
- looking for learning the foundations of online facilitation turn your online meetings into aging, inclusive ones that yield results.
- looking for breaking your old habits of bringing the office to your online work and are ready to upgrade your mind.
- ready to commit to at least 10 hours of learning and practicing.
How does this course work?
- Within 24 hours of purchase, a member of the Remote Forever™ team will contact you by email. Once you have received your login credentials, you can begin the course.
- You will be invited to a community of all former students of Remote Forever™.
- We recommend that you spend 5 weeks to go through the 5 modules of the course. This will give you time to practice your learned skills and integrate your learning into your day-to-day work.
- At the end of every module, there is an assignment. You complete your assignment and upload your answers. Remote Forever™ coaches will review your responses and give you feedback. If your answers demonstrate that you have learned the module content, you will move on to the next module of the course.
- Upon completion of all the modules and assignments, you will receive certificate of completion which you can proudly showcase on your social media profiles.
- Note: You have unlimited access to the instructors and coaches via Slack and email.
What our previous students say:
I have 4 teams that I am coaching remotely. I wanted to hear tips and tricks from a remote work expert. And I was blown away to see how smoothly Remote Forever has connected the Agile Manifesto values and remote work together.I recommend this course because of quality of the content and Molood’s presentation. She mad sure to interact with every person in the audience and shared great tips and tricks for our new work reality. Great job!
Alex Gbaguidi
Agile Coach
Montreal, QC – Canada
Back in April I attended an online seminar where Molood was one of the speakers and I learned a lot from her. So I decided to attend this course. I learned so many specific activities to practice to become better facilitator. I learned the differences between teaching, coaching and facilitation and understood why is so importance of online facilitation. The content is so well developed and Molood makes it easy to understand. She is very practical and goes directly to the point. No complex solutions and no fluff.
Mario Aguirre
Operational Excellence Expert
Queretaro, Mexico
Before this course, at my job, I had meetings were I felt like everyone was either bored or I could not get the right thing from them, so I wanted to change that. I wanted to learn more ways to get everyone engaged. While I worked with Molood, she helped me see exactly what I needed to do more of and what I needed to change for my meeting delegates to want to be involved. Through her way of facilitating the workshop and also with all her good examples, I now have the skills to observe and adjust and know how to check in with my team so that they feel more engaged at all times. Molood has a great way of making you feel included and show you that your opinion matters.
Andreea Peter
Scrum Master
Brasov, Romania
Before this training, I was fixed on Terminology and Taxonomies around Mindsets and Agile Ways of working. After finishing the first module, I had an epiphany and could see remote agile ways of working differently. This training was a truly engaging and collaborative one and went beyond my expectations. As a result of this training, I not only have a changed mindset but also new skills in how to communicate and lead transformational changes whilst adopting agile remotely. Molood is awesome and an excellent communicator, facilitator and subject matter expert in all things Agile Remote Ways of Working and the New Normal. Highly recommend this course and truly appreciate Remote Forever.
Daniel Dina
Enterprise Agile Transformation Coach
London, UK
The value of this course is €9,550. However we have decided to bring the price as low as only €1997. If you have been to any of our free workshops, you know that we create free content that has higher quality than most paid trainings you can find. With our expertise in online education, remote work transformation and agile coaching, we are confident that this immersive online experience offers the highest quality in both content and delivery.
What you will get in this course:
- Over 20 self-study videos (value: €6000)
- Guided assignments on how to put your learnings into practice (value: €1,500)
- Personal feedback on all your assignments (value: €2,000)
- Direct access to Remote Forever™ coaches for Q&A (value: priceless)
- A certificate of completion (value: €50 for print, €20 for digital)
- Access to a community of over 1000 like minded people (value: priceless)
Total value: €9,550
But you can have all of this value for only:
YOUR INVESTMENT: €1997
Your instructor:
Molood Ceccarelli is the founder and CEO of Remote Forever, and the famous Remote Forever Summit, the first online summit about distributed agile that has attracted nearly 10k attendees from around the world. She has been published in places like Forbes, Huffington Post, Inc and Scrum Alliance. What makes her a unique instructor is that she is always in the trenches facing the very challenges you are facing today. She has been part of the scaling and agile journey of a few geographically distributed organizations across various industries such as Telecom, Digital Tools, Gaming, E-commerce, FinTech, Insurance, BlockChain and AI.
Molood has a background in computer security and software development. She also has, a passion for agile coaching and human psychology and a love of traveling and working remotely. With this course, she has poured all her passions into helping you live the work life of tomorrow today.
Module 1: Foundations of Online Facilitation
- Remote-first mindset
- A model from behavioural psychology to improve how you observe people’s behaviour in different remote and hybrid environments
- Core protocols for social contracts (as taught in Harvard University)
- Creating team agreements for remote and hybrid teams
By the end of this module you will have gained a better understanding of why some of your remote and hybrid meetings are not engaging. You will also be equipped with a whole new mindset and way of thinking about how people engage in online meetings.
Module 2: Verbal Facilitation
- How to prepare any meeting and workshop for maximum efficiency and engagement
- Checkin, ice-breakers and energizers: What are they, how are they different and how to use them effectively to increase engagement
- Emotional awareness: how to “read the room” in any conversation
- Guiding principles of online facilitation
- How to recognize stuck conversations and how to get them unstuck
By the end of this module you will know the principles of verbal and nonverbal facilitation. You will know how to use the power of your voice to create engagement in any conversation that you facilitate. Understanding a variety of communication styles and gaining emotional awareness, you will also learn the skills to identify if and when a conversation is stuck and know exactly what to do to get it unstuck.
Module 3: Visual Facilitation
- Visual facilitation principles
- How to use structures and actions more effectively in online facilitation
- Facilitating for different group sizes
By the end of this module you will know the guiding principles of online visual facilitation and will be able to apply your facilitation skills to both verbal and non-verbal communication. You will learn to creatively use visual tools, structures and actions in creating engagement in any group regardless of tools. And you will be able to adapt and accommodate various group sizes in engaging workshops.
Module 4: Feedback and Empathy
- Listening modes for facilitation
- How to give and receive feedback
- Empathy Tactics for dysfunctional behavior
- DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) in online facilitation
- How to be prepared for any potential failure in remote/hybrid environments
By the end of this module you will know about the listening modes, you will learn techniques for distinguishing between observed behaviors and interpretations of them. You have most likely heard about the importance of empathy before. In this module you will finally learn tactics to show empathy as well as use empathy to address dysfunctional behaviors. And lastly you will learn how to think like a professional facilitator who pragmatically adapts to the changing environment.
Module 5: Decision Making
- Decision making approaches
- Decision making process
- Prioritization and evaluation
- How to help groups make better and faster decisions while ensuring everyone’s voice is heard
Most of the time, the goal of facilitation is to help a group make good decisions together. By the end of this module you will know exactly how to do that. When you have completed this module, you will have all the mindsets and skills needed to prepare, design and facilitate any collaborative effort like a pro.