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.