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Hybrid Live Guide

Facilitating Workshops, Activities, and Discussions in Mixed Hybrid Environments

by Robert Kienzle

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  • Over 5 years of hybrid experience: Content, recommended practices, and examples based on a variety of hybrid styles, setups, and workshop topics

  • Over 15 years of facilitation experience: Hybrid tips adapted from in-person programs, virtual sessions, and blended-learning courses

  • Determine if hybrid is the right method: Questions, checklists, and cautions to help decide if hybrid is the best way forward for both you and your participants

  • Do-it-yourself approach: Piece-by-piece arrangements for any hybrid facilitator whether working in established smart rooms or setting up your own mobile equipment including specific app and tech solutions

  • Flexible suggestions: Applicable to new or seasoned hybrid facilitators working with any size group, any workshop topic, and any activity style

  • Sample activity guides: Ready-to-use activities for hybrid settings designed to help you create your own personalized interactions

Content Overview

Defining Hybrid Facilitation

  • Understand how interactive hybrid facilitation differs from hybrid work, hybrid meetings, and hybrid events

  • Review resource links to explore different hybrid situations

Should You Conduct Hybrid Workshops?

  • Realize when hybrid facilitation is needed and when it should be avoided

  • Ask if you and your participants are ready for hybrid: experience, technology needs, costs, and concerns

The Mentality of Approaching and Running Hybrid Workshops

  • Prepare the mental and physical awareness needed to construct and conduct hybrid workshops

  • Schedule the time required to construct and conduct hybrid sessions

  • Arrange the assistants and role-players required to make hybrid activities successful

  • Experience the pleasure and excitement from completing excellent hybrid interactions

Physical Hybrid Training Room Setups

  • Utilize technology in both tech-ready smart rooms and personal portable equipment

  • Consider multiple tech solutions including computers, webcams, microphones, displays, and physical training tools

  • Plan for a variety of participant connections, devices, and locations

  • Customize your own hybrid-ready rooms with tech recommendations and examples

The Great Balancing Act: Facilitating Activities in Hybrid Environments

  • Craft detailed facilitator guides, activity instructions, and pre-session tasks

  • Onboard co-facilitators and producers

  • Facilitate presentations and discussions

  • Conduct activities for large groups

  • Administer activities for small teams

  • Use physical tools and objects for physical interactions

Apps and Tech Recommendations

  • Decide which hardware and software solutions are right for different people and different groups

  • Learn how both in-person and virtual participants can align on the same apps and processes

  • Specific app and tech suggestions for a variety of presentation and activity needs

Ready to take your hybrid facilitation skills to the next level?

  • Email Robert at robert@knowmium.com, connect on LinkedIn, or fill in the contact form below.

  • Looking for the free Hybrid Live Guide eBook? Click the link near the top of the page!