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Virtual facilitation, handling tough participants – 2 new modules added to our popular facilitation skills workshop
Guided Insights has just added two new modules to our popular two-day facilitation skills training workshop From Good to Great: Designing and Running Virtual Meetings, and Managing Difficult Participants and Sponsors. Clients can choose the combination of modules that works best for them. We can also customize certain modules for delivery via interactive webinars. Click here or contact us for more information.
New book now available: 135 Tips for Email and Instant Messages
“Communicating with Teams," drawn from an article co-authored by Nancy Settle-Murphy and Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts, is a featured chapter found in this new book. Published by Houghton Mifflin, 135 Tips for Email and Instant Messages is an all-in-one resource for the latest communication technology. It also includes a section on Blogs, Chatrooms, and Texting. The book contains a chapter on Available online and in bookstores.
Nancy’s IAF session on planning and running virtual meetings a big hit
Translating a face-to-face meeting into a winning virtual conversation was the topic presented by Guided Insights’ principal Nancy Settle-Murphy’s for this year’s International Association of Facilitators conference. Developed in partnership with Karen Bading of Infaronics, the session comprised a combination of asynchronous meetings and conference calls in conjunction with the FacilitatePro web meeting tool. If you’re interested in transforming your own face-to-face meeting agendas into successful virtual meetings, contact Nancy for details.
Learn how to go virtual, quickly, with our new “Quick clinic" service
If you're like many organizations, you're looking for ways to cut costs and reduce carbon emissions. One solution: Find ways to meet virtually instead of having people drive in for a face-to-face session. Within just a couple of hours, we can help you take an existing agenda and create a new one that will help you meet or exceed your objectives--virtually. Please contact Nancy directly to find out more about our "quick clinic" service.
“The workshop was customized to meet the needs of the team and was very pertinent to the team’s issues and problems, including our cultural differences”
IT team for F50 conglomerate
“Many personal and professional preferences surfaced, which will help the team in its ability to work together.”
IT team for F50 conglomerate
“Nancy recommended many new activities for bringing employees and customers closer together, which were successfully implemented. Among them: the inclusion of employees in our customer visits programs; helping our organization become better at listening to customers; and translating business strategy presentations into meaningful messages for our employees. Nancy would provide high-quality initiatives 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