Facilitating at a Distance:
The Core Essentials of Teleclass
& Virtual Meeting Facilitation


Have you considered offering a teleclass as a more efficient way to deliver training, enhance group learning and generate more income
for your business? 

Or, are you working with a distributed team
that requires you to design and facilitate virtual meetings?

When done right, Teleclasses and Virtual Meetings (T/VM) are very effective and inexpensive ways to train, collaborate, and problem-solve. But if they aren't effectively facilitated, T/VM's can be a boring waste of time!

Remove the fear and uncertainty of teleclass/virtual meeting design and facilitation with this 5-day teleclass series: Leading at a Distance: The Essentials of Teleclass & Virtual Meeting Facilitation, led by Steve Davis, Founder of FacilitatorU.com.


This class covers all the elements of T/VM facilitation using a simple, well-organized, and proven experiential approach. This course, that you can take from the comfort of your own home or office, is for anyone who would like to facilitate, manage, teach, mediate, coach, counse, or direct any group using teleconferences in their business.

Learn how to design and run a T/VM that will maximize the use of your group's time and energy. By the end of the 5 days, you will learn:

• The full spectrum of skills needed to effectively design and facilitate a Teleclass/Virtual Meeting (T/VM) for a wide range of purposes.
• How to balance interactivity with meeting purpose.  
• 10 modes of delivering learning and information in a virtual environment.
• Critical Strategies to making your T/VM's come alive including:
  
  • The 9 Keys to the Inner Game of T/VM Facilitation.
  • The 9 Key Facilitator Skills
  • The 9 Keys to Building Community Virtually
  • The 9 Keys to Facilitating Group Results
• How to effectively facilitate small groups using the Maestro Conference Platform
• An abundance of logistical and technical resources to support the preparation, process, and progress of your T/VM's
• And much more..
  

How the 5-Day Format/Training works...

1. Dial into your class every day for 5 days (Mon-Fri) for a 60-minute focused training segment using a conferencing bridge. Or purchase the self-guided version below and follow along with a recording of a live teleclass.
2. Work through a guidebook during the 5 days (about 30 minutes a day of study and field work).
3. You will have the opportunity to discuss issues on the subject matter with the instructor and your classmates via an online discussion forum during the course.
4. Access to the instructor via email for specific help.

Course Outline...
Here's what you'll be learning and doing during the 5-Day course...

Monday
Introduction to Teleclass/Virtual Meeting (T/VM) Facilitation

• Setting the Stage.
• Purpose, Benefits and Limitations of T/VM.
• Attaining Maximal Utility with Minimal Technology.
• The Teleclass Continuum: Balancing Interactivity and Content with Purpose.
• Critical Skills Necessary to Effectively Facilitate T/VM's.
  • Attitude
  • Listening
  • Flexibility
  • Compassion
  • Control
  • Presence
  • Energy Sensitivity
  • Humor
  • Voice/Tone
  • Attuning to your audience.

Tuesday
Inner Working of Successful Teleclasses and Virtual Meetings

• Teleclass/Virtual Meeting Design and Preparation
  • Clarify Expectations and Objectives
  • Anatomy of a T/VM
  • Balance Information and Experience
  • Map Processes to Purpose
• 10 Modes of Delivery
  • Lecture
  • Experience
  • Story
  • Roleplay
  • Sharing
  • Dialogue
  • Metaphor
  • Coaching
  • Discussion
  • 3rd Party Sources
• Mistakes to Avoid

Wednesday
Critical Strategies to Make Your Teleclasses Come Alive

1. Redirect to Keep on Target
2. Relate and Build Trust to Keep the Energy Up
3. Facilitate Intimacy and Leverage Your Time Using Breakout Sessions
4. Incorporate Experiential Activities
5. Facilitate Full Participation.
6. Match Format and Structure to Purpose
7. Deal with Challenging Participants and Situations
8. Embrace the Unexpected
9. Be Comfortable with Silence
10. Believe in your Participants

Keys to the Inner Game of T/VM Facilitation

1. Facilitate Yourself First
2. Realize your intention
3. Facilitate Your Inner Group
4. Be Present
5. It's not all about you
6. Be Transparent
7. Facilitate With a Beginner's Mind

• Maintaining Momentum Online and Offline
• Technical Aspects
  • Recording
  • Bridge lines
  • Maestro Confernce
  • Telephone Considerations
  • Website Resources
• Resource Review
• Q&A
• Follow-on support
  

5 Free bonuses included with your training...
In addition to the 5-Day training described above, you also receive:

1. Free copy of "Leading at a Distance: The Essentials of Teleclass & Virtual Meeting Facilitation." This 124-page guidebook is packed with all you need to know to design, facilitate, and deliver effective T/VM's. Comes complete with a number of checklists, templates, and forms for designing, delivering, and managing your T/VM.

2. Three free tools for instructional design:

• Instructional Design Checklist.
• Workshop Design Proficiencies Self-Assessment.
• Article, "Secrets from the Pros: 5 Master Presenters Share Their Top Techniques."

3. Free access to the MP3 recording of the 5-Day training.

4. Participation on a collaborative software tool called "Engage" to explore ideas and questions with your peers between class session on your own schedule.

5. Access to Steve for virtual coaching on this subject throughout the week.

Pricing...
Our price for this live class is only $119 including the class guidebook ($49 value) and a number of checklists. Everything you read about above is included. And, we offer a 100%-satisfaction-guaranteed guarantee. Prices for the self-guided version of this course are quoted beow.

Self-Guided MP3 Audio Version
If you'd like to learn this material at your own pace and on your own schedule, you can purchase the MP3 version of this teleclass complete with the learning guide. You'll be provided with access to recorded offerings of the five-hour teleclass that you can listen to online and follow along in the learning guide is used in the live class. Click here to purchase for $79.

Self-Guided
(MP3 Only)

Click here to purchase the
MP3 Version for $79.

Guidebook Only Option

If you'd like to purchase the guidebook and bonuses used in this class as a resource or reference, click here for full details and purchase information. This 124-page guidebook is packed with what you need to know to design, facilitate, and deliver effective T/VM's. Comes complete with a number of checklists, templates, and forms for designing, delivering, and managing your T/VM. If you'd like to license this content for your corporate intranet, please contact us to discuss this option.

FacilitatorU.com Membership Option

Become a Premium member of FacilitatorU.com and register for this teleclass at half price in addition to a host of other items and benefits. An exceptional value. Click here for details.

About Your Instructor

Steve Davis. Steve Davis, M.A., M.S., is an Facilitator's Coach, Infoprenuer, and free-lance human, helping facilitators, organizational leaders, educators, trainers, coaches and consultants present themselves confidently, access their creativity, empower their under-performing groups, enhance their facilitation skills, and build their business online and offline.

Steve spends most of his time building and running FacilitatorU.com. He also publishes a weekly ezine for facilitators called, the Master Facilitator Journal, continues to write ebooks, design teleclasses, and maintain a part-time coaching practice. His breadth of experience spans business, corporate management, engineering, teaching, spiritual psychology, and wellness, offering a pragmatic yet creative coaching foundation. To learn more about Steve, visit his website at www.livingmastery.com.

About the satisfaction guarantee

If, for any reason, you are not satisfied with this training, simply email us with a request to refund/credit your credit card in the full amount and we will do so immediately. It's our policy to do this and we honor this in every single case.