Lessons learned and keys to success that were harvested by June Holley from a 5 module virtual practicum that was based on principles of learning and behavior change. This will be relevant to leadership programs and networks that want to augment face to face time with virtual learning opportunities that can address the geographic, time, and cost challenges of working only through face to face connections. As a teaser one of the lessons is the importance of “having the capacity to have breakout group capacity to increase engagement around content.”
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10 Lessons about Virtual Network Leadership Development | Panelist: June Holley
1. AUGUST| 2014
Lessons about Virtual Network Leadership
Development
With June Holley, Network Weaver
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4. TODAY’S PRESENTER
Lessons about Virtual Network Leadership
Development
Presenter: June Holley, Network Weaver
Date: 8/27/14
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7. Poll
• Do you have groups or networks that are
geographically dispersed, making face-to-face
meetings difficult?
• How would you rate your experience using
virtual platforms for leadership development
or other trainings?
• Have you used video conferencing?
• Have you used breakout rooms?
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8. Background: The Network Consultants’
Practicum
• 5 month series of teleconferences using
startmeeting.com
• 21 people plus 2 facilitators
• Co-facilitated by June Holley and Kristin Johnstad
• Set of Google docs
• Self-organizing of activities between sessions
• Purpose: to learn basics of being a consultant
about networks and network weaving
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9. New
concepts
How to apply
Commitment
to try
Practice
outside the
session
Help each
other w
The Leadership challenges
Development
Process
Is a Learning
Action
Process
Talk about
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10. 4 Engagement Tools for Virtual Platforms
• Informal engagement – chat
• Formal engagement – breakout rooms
• Face-to-face – video for visual cues that build
trust and hold attention
• Ways to get a sense of where the group is - polls
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11. 2 Storage Options
• Google docs: meeting notes, surveys
• Dropbox: articles for people to read
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16. And…
• Framing: need to frame that part of living in the 21st century is
about learning new things, getting good at troubleshooting and
problem solving
• Time: you have to allocate time for learning and trying out
platforms
• Tryout: the first time you use a platform have a time or two several
days before the session for people to come on and try out the
platform. That way you can troubleshoot then instead of during the
session.
• Things will go wrong: have to learn how to be adaptable and flexible
(what to do if something doesn’t work)
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17. 8 Agenda Elements
• Learn platform features
• Build relationships, share about interests
• Sharing about how they applied last session’s
concept
• Peer assist
• New concepts or practices 5-15 minutes
• Discussion or practice application of concept or
practice
• Commitment to try it out
• Reflection – how will I do my work differently?
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18. Sample Agenda
10” Participants arrive and answer a question in the chat
5” Welcome and overview of session
5-20” 1-3 individuals show a slide and share something they
accomplished during the previous month.
15-30” Peer assist on a challenge someone is facing
10-15” Presentation on one concept with example
5” Questions
20” Breakout groups to discuss how to apply new concept
5” Report back insights
10” Go round: What I commit to doing in the next month
10” Reflection: what new insight did I get this session
and how will it change me as a leader?
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19. Peer Assist
Short Peer Assist Process
5” Volunteer shares a challenge
1” Participants ask clarifying questions
5” Participants offer thoughts, advice,
experience, resources
2” Volunteer summarizes responses and talks
about next steps they might take based on
information from peers
2” Participants share insights they gained from
the discussion
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21. Breakout Groups
• Introductions: who you are, your organization,
your location.
• How might you use this information in your
work?
• When might you implement a session such as
the one described?
• What might make it difficult? What ideas do
others have for how you might deal with those
difficulties?
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26. Longterm
How can leaders learn collaboratively and
support each other outside/after the
sessions?
• Have them self-organize “twosies” between sessions where
they have a conversation with another person in the group.
• Clustering: through question in chat or simple survey, help
them find others with similar interests and help them self-organize
between sessions.
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29. Surveys Using Google Forms
Mapping
Ken
Janne
Deborah
Young Leaders
Yvonne
Jose
Ari
Organizational
Brittany
James
Natalia
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30. Clustering for Learning Groups
• People identified interest during session and one
person agreed to organize it. You can check in
with them to see if they need any support
• Some had to learn how to use Doodle or Meeting
Wizard and the conferencing platform
• Some lasted 4 months, some only had one call
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31. Breakout Groups
• How could you help people in virtual sessions
get to know each other more?
• How might you apply the idea of clustering
into learning groups?
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Editor's Notes
June: What we are going do today is show that technology platforms and our understanding of how to do engagement in a virtual space are moving along rapidly and we are now able to have high quality relationship building and engagement online. Within the next year, we think that virtual will become very close to face-to-face.
Startmeeting doesn’t have a polling function, where a box comes up and you can select answers, then see a graph with an aggregation of the results but we thought it would be great if you could answer these in the chat so we could get an idea of the groups background in using virtual platforms. SHOULD WE DO ALL OF THESE???
Breakour groups are perhaps the most critical element to have in a virtual session – this is the way people digest content and talk about how to apply it – otherwise in one ear and out the other,
However, face-toface in so important as well – what helps you get attached to people and want to interact with them outside of the session,.
Chat is GREAT for troubleshooting – and you can do this while the rest of the group continues with the agenda. You can see an example here. Chat is also a good way for people to add to a lecture by sharing their own experience or resources. People can ask questions in the chat that you can answer when it makes sense rather than having your talk interrupted. People can have private chats that help them build relationships. People do have to learn to multi-attend to chat as well as contant, and that is hard. Just tell people to be patient as it is a learned skills.
Want to be able to have 3-6 people in a breakout group, so the platform may depend on how many in the total group. Freeconferencing only has 4.
A number of groups could go in together to get a platform – just have to have a joint google calendar for scheduling.
We are going to be using Blackboard – used for educational purposes a lot but that is what leadership development is all about. Have to have someone who is keeping up as features change very frequently.
You don’t need to have everyone see everyone else at the same time.. We’ve found that people can take turns and this works quite well. Some people don’t have cameras on their computers . Many platforms now have mobile versions so they can use a smart phone.
Polls are a great way to help the group see where it is at on a issue, skill, etc. Help them make sense of the results (What do these results tell us about our skill level, our experience?) Polls can also help you identify interest levels, whether people want to learn more about something.