Was lernt man im Online-Moderations-Training von initio?

Alles, was Sie brauchen, um interaktive Meetings und Workshops online zu moderieren: Die richtigen Tools (mit ihren Stärken und Schwächen), jede Menge Methoden, Tricks und "Kniffe" . Sie lernen die häufigsten Stolperfallen zu vermeiden . Am Ende können Sie Workshops zu allen denkbaren Themen selbständig moderieren . Hier ein Überblick über alle Details .

Wie lange dauert so ein Training für virtuelle Meetings?

Das hängt sehr von Ihrem Kenntnisstand ab . Wir trainieren Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene und richten uns sehr flexibel nach Ihren Vorkenntnissen. Üblicherweise sind es zwischen 2 und 6 Termine von jeweils 2 Stunden.

Geht’s auch "kurz und knackig"?

Natürlich. Wenn Sie sich auf ein konkretes Online-Meeting vorbereiten wollen, coachen wir Sie im Vorfeld persönlich und erarbeiten mit Ihnen einen stimmigen, aktivierenden, abwechslungsreichen methodischen Ablauf , mit dem Sie sich sehen lassen können.

Wieviel kostet das Online-Moderations-Training?

Weniger, als Sie denken. Kontaktieren Sie für uns ein kostenloses Erstgespräch und ein Angebot !

▷ Customized training online-facilitation & hybrid meetings

Seminars and trainings

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In our customized training courses and webinars for online-meetings, virtual workshops and digital facilitation, we teach you how to prepare and conduct virtual meetings professionally. If you have learned to facilitate online-meetings efficiently and professionally, you can also work with others in a virtual environment, remote and online – at least as well as in the office. In our trainings you will learn how to do this.

Our offer on the topic of virtual facilitation & collaboration

Online-facilitation training

Prepare and facilitate online-meetings professionally!
Online-tools and methodologies
Create positive group dynamics in remote teams

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Facilitators for online-meetings, off-site meetings, large groups

Professionally facilitated online-workshops
Activating and interactive Formats
Promote cohesion in remote teams

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Leadership & Collaboration in virtual Teams

Develop & lead virtual teams
Transform remote teams to high performance teams
Develop trust, reliability, cooperation

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Can online meetings completely replace face-to-face meetings?

Yes! You can achieve the same goals with online-meetings and virtual workshops but sometimes you have to follow a different approach.

In our digital training courses, you will learn how to achieve even better results in online-meetings and skilfully designed online-workshops than in conventional “face-to-face meetings”.

The challenges in virtual meetings

Things can go very wrong in virtual meetings. Here are some examples:

Little interaction

Meetings seem rigid, there is little interaction. The cameras are switched off, one person is holding a monologue, there is little interaction or discussion. This hardly generates any creative ideas and no culture of innovation.

Limited perception

People are used to perceiving on several “levels”. Gestures, facial expressions and tone of voice are certainly conveyed in video meetings. Body language details, on the other hand, can be lost – this “perception level” is only available to us to a limited extent via video conferencing.

Pitfalls in communication

Oral communication via online-tools is difficuelt and sometimes restricted. Sentences become shorter, language changes, and the tone “in-between lines” does not always convey.

In our training for online-facilitation and virtual meetings, we teach you how to effectively counteract these effects.

Sequence of events

Even in online-workshops, strong characters may dominate the meeting. You can avoid this by using a clever scenario or a well laid-out proceeding. We teach you what it takes for a successful remote workshop/meeting.

Dealing with unequal "presence"

The tendency for extroverted participants to dominate in online meetings and for introverts not to have as much “air time” is reinforced in virtual meetings if you don’t counteract as a moderator. We will show you, as future online-facilitators, proven methodologies on how to Engage and activate silent participants.

Lack of feedback for the presenter or facilitator

For presenters or trainers, there is often a feeling of communicating with a “black hole” with little or no feedback.

While you are talking, everyone else is getting quieter and quieter and you wonder if they are actually still listening and how much participants have actually understood. In face-to-face meetings, listeners may also become sleepy or otherwise distracted.

In our training courses on professional online-facilitation, we show you tricks and tips on how to avoid this in virtual meetings and how to react skillfully and keep everyone focused.

Technical challenges

As an online-facilitator and presenter, you need to prepare much better and in different ways. You need to have plan B or even plan C to hand in case something goes wrong.

But what to do if the Internet connection suddenly suffers breaks down or other technology involved doesn’t work as expected? We show you how these situations can be faced and resolved professionally in virtual meetings.

In-depth knowledge of tools and their functions

In most virtual meetings, only a limited feature-set of the technical tools are used: Video, audio and screen sharing.

However, most tools allow much more engaging interaction if you know all the features, possibilities and how to use them skillfully.

We teach you formats and tools that allow you to achieve much more in less time than just present and “collect comments“!

The physical environment in online meetings

Where I sit and whether I sit alone or with several participants in a room makes a difference. Is the room too loud? This disturbs the other participants. Is the background “too private?” This looks umprofessional…

With us, you will also learn how to conduct online meetings professionally, even from your home office.

We can help

If you want to facilitate efficient online-meetings and good virtual teamwork, you need these skills:

Knowledge of suitable tools
Experience in the application of virtual interactive methodologies
Skillful handling of functions and platforms
Knowledge of how to control group dynamics in a virtual environment
Development of efficient and goal-oriented workshop-formats that work well in online-meetings
Measures and tools to promote and consolidate collaboration in remote teams

Training for professional online-facilitation of virtual meetings

With us you learn

how to use these tools efficiently to get things done in a short time
Methodologies and formats you can use to make meetings interactive
how to promote group dynamics in such a way that close cooperation is developed in remote teams in the long run
which platforms are particularly suitable for which purpose
how to select the appropriate online-tools and use them effectively and professionally
know all relevant functions
and you will learn goal-oriented workshop scenarios and formats to achieve your workshop goals in online-meetings.

Raw outline of the training

We deliver our trainings online – because you only learn how to swim once in the water
We work with a digital mix of methods to ensure that everyone is actively involved, e.g. interactive online-sessions, work in break-out groups between sessions and exchanges on a virtual training platform to consolidate learning success between training sessions.
Case clinic & transfer: We encourage participants to try out all the things they have learned directly in their working environmentso that we can reflect upon the results, learnings and difficulties in the training
We show tips and tricks and methodologies that bring about rapid change
We will also train you to meet the challenges in leading virtual teams
But we also talk about “new ways of working” and how you can embed online-meetings into new work processes

Short training: Facilitation of online-meetings

Our online-facilitation training courses are always tailor-made.

If you are looking for a short training course for professional online-facilitation, we will concentrate on the essentials.

If you would like to “dive deep into the topic”, we can also develop a suitable curriculum for you. Please ask us – we always provide “tailor-made” and customized training.

Online workshop on facilitation: the training covers these questions

How can I, as an online-facilitator, conduct a web meeting or webinar and focus the attention of the participants?
In an online-meeting or webinar, how can I foster the participation of individuals and the interaction between participants ?
Which tools are particularly suitable for which purposes in online-meetings? And if you are bound to certain tools: How do you get the most out of your existing toolkit?
What can I do to avoid misunderstandings and lead virtual meetings with confidence?
What is the best way to prepare web meetings and how do I design a webinar in the virtual classroom?
What online-facilitation tips are there for the individual phases of the online-meeting?
How do I conduct online-workshops in an efficient, interactive and participation-oriented way?
Can I do exercises and group work in the virtual classroom?
How can a team feeling be created in virtual team meetings?
How can I tell that the attendees of my digital webinar really understood the material?
How do I deal with different nations, behaviours and language barriers in a virtual meeting or webinar?

You will learn about these methodologies and tools in the Online-Facilitation training course

Interactive, engaging and activating online-methodologies that allow you to develop goals, strategies and action plans online in all group sizes
how to use interaction-triggering elements online in a targeted manner
how opinion-forming and decision-making work efficiently and fairly in the virtual space
Framework on how to prepare your online-presentations for this medium so that you can convince your audience and get feedback
How to present yourself best, with optimal audio quality and suitable background
alternating small group work online
How to skillfully implement “Liberating Structures” and other activating online-workshop methodologies
virtual constellations to map polarities and opinions and create resources for collaboration
how to share small group results online and form valuable extracts from them
how to design plenary discussions “in large rounds” effectively
How to celebrate special team moments online, project milestones, team holidays….

Precisely tailored seminar content

We tailor-make our training concepts, so that we meet the exact needs of our clients and trainees. We do not deliver a standard program. In doing so, we use the platforms that you are familiar with and already use in your everyday work-life.

In order to achieve best quality results, this is how we proceed:

We conduct a non-binding initial interview
make you an offer (as above – or modified to your needs)
We determine the goals and contents of the training together with you
create an individual curriculum for your company
carry out the training
provide high-quality and informative training documents for downloading
evaluate the success and participant assessments in the follow-up, if you wish.

Your training could look like this

As already described: We always train to your requirements. Therefore, the exact procedure depends on the learning objectives that we define with you in advance.

However, such (or similar) formats areoften booked:

“Short and crisp”

3h concise input
try out some tools
Attractive training documents with all the knowledge to download

“In-depth”

2 trainings, 2-3h each
pointed input
Trying out and practicing tools and formats
Attractive training documents with all the knowledge to download

“Learning Journey”

3 trainings, 2-3h each
pointed input
Trying out and practicing tools and formats
Acquisition of a“methodologies kit“
Developing your own workshop processes
Meeting in small groups between the workshops to further try out and practice together
Exchange and sharing of learning experiences on a virtual learning platform between training sessions
Attractive training documents with all the knowledge to download

However, these are only some of the possible options. Together with you we adapt the contents and the procedure to your specific needs.

Training hybrid meetings and hybrid workshops

Hybrid formats are becoming increasingly important in the everyday life of many companies and organizations.

Hybrid formats are workshops in which one part of the participants takes part “in presence” and others online.

The challenge is to give all participants, whether in the home office or on-site, the same opportunities for participation and interaction. But how do people “on site” and virtual participants share the same work tools, such as virtual bulletin boards, voting tools, etc? How are hybrid breakout sessions possible?

To ensure this, a certain amount of additional technical and personnel effort is required.

In our hybrid facilitation practice (as consultants, we now regularly facilitate such hybrid formats), we have seen all the relevant pitfalls – and would like to save you from any mistakes.

We have

Implementation tips
Proven tips for the technical setup
Tools that have proven to work also under hybrid conditions
Things you should definitely pay attention to already when inviting and planning hybrid events
Proven practical tips for hybrid and yet very efficient breakout groups
Time for all your questions
Example proceedings for interactive elements in a hybrid environment
Time to work on your practical examples

Here is a free initial consultation on hybrid training!

10 reasons why you should attend our webinar on online-facilitation methodologies

Comprehensive training: you will learn the subject matter in depth and breadth. After the training, you are guaranteed to be an online facilitation specialist.
Our trainers are experienced practitioners
Learning from the framework: we apply virtual facilitation methodologies during our trainings. Therefore, you learn from the first moment!
Bookable at any time : many training dates available
Individual: We adapt our training contents to your specific needs
Time flexibility: Our trainers live and work in different time zones and are used to dealing with customers in international settings.
“Case clinic“: Coaching also for “tricky cases” and special challenges (can also be booked as individual coaching )
Tailor-made trainings for closed groups (“inhouse trainings”)
Up-to-date specialist knowledge: our trainers are specialized and long-time users of the methodologies, approaches and formats trained here (“come from the field”)
Low price – a lot of output for a moderate investment (“more than worth the money“)

One on one coaching reflecting your individual needs regarding online meetings

Are you a manager, project manager or internal consultant?
Do you have special content-related challenges, are you involved in a highly demanding project?
Do you need individual support or work in distant time zones?

We also offer individual coaching – even at “unusual hours” and on the most difficult topics concerning

Online-Moderation
Moderation von virtuellen Meetings
Teambuilding und Teamentwicklung für virtuelle Teams
Zusammenarbeit in virtuellen Teams
Führen von remote Teams
remote Office Kultur
laterales Führen – online und offline
Vertrauen und Verlässlichkeit in virtuellen Teams

Target group

Our training for facilitation of online-meetings and virtual and hybrid meetings is aimed at existing groups in companies or organizations (“in-house training”). We do not currently offer open training for individuals.

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Our trainers for online-meetings and online-facilitation

Florian GrolmanRead Article

Florian Grolman

Managing Consultant. Main areas of work: Strategy development, change management, organizational consulting and development, team development, management training, mission statement and values development.

Juliane NeumannRead Article

Juliane Neumann

Consultant and coach. Main areas of expertise: distributed working & remote teams, team development, digital change, agile working in distributed teams, training of managers in distributed teams

Stephan DohrnRead Article

Stephan Dohrn

Consultant and coach. Main areas of expertise: distributed working & remote teams, team development, digital changePsychological safety in teams, agile working in distributed contexts, leadership and entrepreneurial coaching, change-management.

Florian GrolmanRead Article

Florian Grolman

Juliane NeumannRead Article

Juliane Neumann

Consultant and coach. Main areas of expertise: distributed working & remote teams, team development, digital change, agile working in distributed teams, training of managers in distributed teams

Stephan DohrnRead Article

Stephan Dohrn

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FAQ – frequently asked questions about online-facilitation training

What do you learn in initio’s online-facilitation training?

Everything you need to facilitate interactive meetings and workshops online: the right tools (with their strengths and weaknesses), lots of methodologies, tricks and “knacks”. You will learn to avoid the most common stumbling blocks. At the end you will be able to independently facilitate workshops on all conceivable topics. Here is an overview of all the details.

How long does such a training for virtual meetings take?

That depends a lot on your skill level. We train beginners and advanced learners and are very flexible depending on your previous knowledge. There are usually between 2 and 6 sessions of 2 hours each.

Can’t you keep it short and sweet?

Of course. If you want to prepare for a specific online-meeting, we will coach you personally in advance and work out a coherent, activating, varied methodical procedure with you, with which you can be seen.

How much does the online-facilitation training cost?

Less than you think. Contact for us a free initial consultation and quote!

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