The second Monday of every month from about 11 - 11:30 am ET/New  York usually finds me leading the monthly Effective Virtual Conversations Community Call. I've been hosting these since the summer of 2017 when EVC was released, and I'm pleased to announce that I've just posted the 2019 schedule for the first half of the year.

These calls are usually hosted on zoom (so we can use the technology available to us) and run for 30 minutes. They are also posted over at my YouTube channel. Content and tool rich, they take a practical, tips approach to supporting leaders, team members and learning professionals in creating more engaging virtual conversations. Most of the tips come from my 2017 book, Effective Virtual Conversations.

2019 topics are scheduled as:
January - Five Virtual and Remote Team Builders (ideal for virtual and remote teams!)
February - Enhancing your Virtual Collaborations
March - Making it Stick. Boosting Retention in Virtual Sessions  (NOTE this call is held on 3/25 as I will be away on 3/11)
April - Design Hack (Bring a real-time design project you want to work on and leave this special 45 minute session with the skeleton of a webinar/virtual session)
May - Jazzing up engagement -2019 style

Other calls in 2019 will focus on neuroscience and virtual learning; content creation.

I hope that you will join me in my zoom room (usually 270-302-0415). Details are typically posted the morning of the call over at my Effective Group Coaching Facebook page. No cost to attend other than your time and your connection!

Download a copy of the call schedule here for Winter 2019.

Best wishes,
Jennifer

Jennifer
Jennifer Britton, CPCC, PCC
Facebook – EffectiveGroupCoaching
Twitter @jennbritton
Pick up a copy of Effective Virtual Conversations - on Amazon - https://amzn.to/2EdsbUp
Also author of Effective Group Coaching (2010), From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (2013), Coaching Business Builder (2018), and PlanDoTrack(2019)

It's been a busy fall for most professionals I have spoken with recently. My guess is that you may not have caught all of the Community calls I have held in the past few months on leading and facilitating more engaging virtual events - meetings, conference calls, and virtual coaching.

I've been enjoying hosting these 30 minute calls this fall as the word about my new book spreads, and these calls have been interspersed with other virtual events hosted by many professional associations. A big thanks to the ICF Community of Practice, HRPA Peel, and ICF Halifax bringing me in for recent, or upcoming, virtual events. If you know of a group who would benefit from learning more about creating more engaging, and impactful virtual calls, and support for virtual teams, please contact me, or pass my details on.

In case you have missed some of the recent fall community calls, you can check out some of these recent ones which are now posted up on either one of our YouTube Channels - The Teams365 Leadership Channel, and the EffectiveGroupCoach channel.

Recent community calls have included:

Tricky Issues in Virtual Events - November 13, 2017. View it here (30 minutes on some of the tricky issues you might face when leading virtual events - from technology to group members)


Pre-program checklist - before you launch your own virtual events. View it here (30 minutes on a number of items you will want to consider BEFORE you launch!

I'll be setting the 2018 call schedule soon and am aiming to offer about 8-10 community calls throughout next year. I'll let you know when the schedule is available.

For now, please mark your calendars for the last two EVC Community calls for the year:

Monday December 4th (11 - 11:45 am ET - note time) - 2018 Program Hack - Bring a program you want to take action on as we'll be working real-time on a program design activity.

Monday December 18th (11 am ET start) - Last community call of the year. Setting people up for success.

Please leave a review or comment on the videos!

With best wishes,
Jennifer

Yesterday I was a guest speaker for the International Coach Federation's Team and Work Group Community of Practice, and spoke on 4 Essential Elements for Virtual Team Coaching. More than 325 people joined the call live, which I think speaks to how relevant this topic is right now.

​One of the areas I touched on was the importance of "mixing things up" or using different strategies for engagement over the course of a series of conversations with a team. Breakouts are often one of the most overlooked strategies you can employ in virtual calls.

​Breakouts that Sizzle! was the first of two October Virtual Community Calls this month. If you haven't joined me for one, I hope that you will pencil in the next date which will be Monday October 16th from 11:30-12 noon ET. The topic next week will be on Marketing Tips for Your Virtual Work, and will be of interest to external and internal practitioners. We're going to talk a bit more about the Business Case for Virtual Work, as well as ideas to let people know what you have to offer.

​For now, I hope that you will check out the Breakouts that Sizzle! call from Monday October 2nd (link to view it on YouTube is listed below).

​If you are not yet on the mailing list, now if the time to sign up:

Sign up to receive the monthly newsletter on Virtual Issues here.

​Looking forward to having you join us in a few weeks for the next call. If you have ideas for our 2018 calls, please let me know. Calls will be held monthly during 2018, but if you'd like more ongoing support, consider joining me for the 2018 Learning Lab and Design Studio.

Here's the October 2nd Breakouts that Sizzle! Session

Let us know what you found most useful and/or any action steps you are going to put into practice as a result of this call. Comment here at the blog or at the YouTube channel!

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats.
Follow us on Twitter @Teams365
Phone: (416)996-8326

​You can grab a copy of my new book, Effective Virtual Conversations, at Amazon. You can also purchase a copy direct from our site, signed by me!

Part of our work in the virtual realm involves learning and engagement. Capturing people's attention right away is very important to bring them "into the room".  One way I have been exploring in the last few years is the use of video. I started experimenting with it when I was offering on-demand programming (video based) in 2014, and since that time have moved into more video production in my e-learning work, Summer 2016's video series around onboarding new leaders using Adobe Spark. Recently I have started producing short 1-2 minute videos from Effective Virtual Conversations which I hope that you will enjoy.

I've just started an Effective Virtual Conversations playlist of potential videos I have created which you may be interested in viewing. Check out the YouTube Playlist here. Right now they include our Community Calls, AND I plan on adding more of the shorter videos like the one you see here.

Enjoy and feel free to share these with your colleagues so that we all can become more masterful in leading virtual calls. It's a win-win for everyone!

Best
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Retreats.
Follow us on Twitter @Teams365
Phone: (416)996-8326

​You can grab a copy of my new book, Effective Virtual Conversations, at Amazon. You can also purchase a copy direct from our site, signed by me!