Ep 35: Virtual Facilitation - Tricks and Techniques by Anand Mehta

Anand Mehta - a Facilitative Trainer, Experiential Educator, Motivational Speaker & visiting faculty for Management institutes from Mumbai. He has a huge list of achievements in the learning field and top 2 are the young leader of the year from Lions international among 205 countries, has awarded business tycoon from Indian education society and he is associated with all trainers conclave as a practitioner and has facilitated more than 1000 training workshop and seminars.

Few questions I ask Anand Mehta on Virtual Facilitation is as follows: Time Stamps: 7:20m to 01:00:10s  

1. Brief intro & how he got into training?
2. What should be the strategy in designing the content?
3. How should a virtual classroom facilitator or trainer be prepared for delivering the class?
4. While attention span is a concern, what was your experience?
5. Would virtual facilitation go to be here now?
6. What is the best practice while facilitating remote workshops?
7. How about technical know-how? What tools do you recommend for trainers as Technology is unpredictable and networks are not stable?
8. How effective would be icebreakers in virtual?
9. Participants “drift off” quickly & how do you engage the audience during the training?
10. How to build a community and read nonverbal body language with remote facilitation?
11. What is the replacement for paper exercises which would otherwise happen in the classroom?
12. How to manage distractions with multiple communications happening on the tool for the facilitator and participant?
13. What was your learning while doing virtual facilitation?
14. What are the challenges of the facilitating virtual meeting?
15. What are the key benefits of virtual facilitation?
16. What are the tips & tricks you propose in the context of virtual facilitation?
17. What should I do after facilitating an online workshop or virtual meeting?
18. Can you share any value add insight to my listeners?
19. How do you see Learning trends in 2020?

"Powerful question" to my guest to unveil for my listeners.  to engage, enlighten and empower (& that’s the mission of my podcast too) Timestamp at 01:00:10s to 1:10:45s

• According to you, what is the “STAR” moment?
• What “inspires you” to do everything that you do
• If you owned the company, what’s one thing you would do differently in learning?
• What are the 3 most important things you would like to accomplish right now?
• What are your strengths?
• What’s the best book you’ve read this year or anytime you recommend for my listeners? And why?
• What are the characteristics of the best boss role models or mentors/coaches you ever had? What made that person great?
• Are there any tools that you use on a daily basis to be a better you?
• Is there any habit you are practicing which has made you successful in whatever you do?
• Your advice to people who are new and want to accelerate their career in HR.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Open to Outcome by Jacobson Micah & Ruddy Mari
• Mentimeter

Connect with Anand Mehta @

• LinkedIn
• Website – www.anandmehta.in
• Phone - 9821460344

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