How to keep people engaged (offline and online)
I had a lovely chat with David Gouthro from The Consulting Edge (based in Vancouver). As a meeting facilitator, keynote speaker and MC/emcee, he has been deeply involved with experiential learning for 40 years.
Here are some of the things we discussed:
- Handling audience participation when you’re delivering content remotely
- Why be playful
- Using improv for change and leadership
- The importance of asking ‘why not’ rather than ‘why’
- Overcoming initial resistance
- Getting people moving and meeting each other
During our conversation, David shared a wealth of tools and techniques that you might find useful. Here are just a few:
- Leadership metaphor cards
- Icebreaker cards
- Find the fact / Two truths and a lie (this could be combined with the Snowball Fight from page 30 of my book or done in Zoom breakout rooms)
- Using playing cards for status games
- Using cards to form pairs or groups
- Playing the noseflute
Watch the video
P.S. David kindly wrote the one of the forewords to my book.
1 Comment
David Gouthro · 23 Mar 2020 at 6:13 pm
Brilliant interview, I must say!
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