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Guided Insights and Facilitate.com Join Forces to Create Two New Courses

Nancy Settle-Murphy of Guided Insights and Julia Young of Facilitate.com are creating two brand new courses for launch this fall. At the heart of Leading Virtual Teams is a one-day workhop, preceded by a "best practices" webinar. A new virtual classroom session, with a working title of Keeping Virtual Participants Engaged and Focused, is designed for those who struggle to keep participants engaged, whether during virtual meetings, remote training sessions or other virtual forums. Please watch this space or contact us for more information. Or click here to learn more about how Guided Insights can help organizations create the capacity to thrive in the virtual world.

Virtual Working Summit CD set now available

A group of world-class experts joined host Dr. Penny Pullan of Making Projects Work for the first-ever Virtual Working Summit earlier this summer. Nancy Settle-Murphy of Guided Insights led a discussion on Navigating Across Cross-Cultural Tripwires, one of the most popular of the eight sessions. To order the full set of CDs, send an email to info@makingprojectswork.co.uk for more information.

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77 Tips for Planning and Leading Exceptional Virtual Meetings - e-booklet available

Our popular 23-page e-booklet is available for download. It covers many types of virtual meetings, including "hybrid" meetings that include both face-to-face and remote participants and virtual meetings with culturally diverse participants. Please click here for more information and to order.

“Very nice balance of group work, instruction and exercises...this class has improved my perception of what facilitation is, and can be.” - Nonprofit energy consortium participant

“Nancy recommended many new activities for bringing employees and customers closer together.Among them: helping our organization become better at listening to customers and translating business strategy presentations into meaningful messages for our employees. Nancy is an asset to any organization that needs help in achieving greater customer loyalty through better listening and communications.” - President of client organization for a process control equipment manufacturer