Run the Room Online
The core virtual facilitation skills program. Four live sessions over four weeks. You bring a real session you have to run, and you leave having run pieces of it in front of people who will tell you the truth.
Cohort forming. Dates go to the list first.
When you are done: You will run a live session where people speak without being called on, and close it with a decision that has an owner and a date on it.
What you get
- 4 live sessions of 90 minutes, one a week, on Zoom.
- Every participant facilitates in front of the group at least twice.
- A real session of your own, rebuilt week by week.
- Recording of your own practice runs, for you only, never shared with the group.
$850 founding seat, $1,200 standard. Nonprofits, schools and public agencies take 25% off. Two free seats in every cohort.
Buy a founding seat, $850Buy a standard seat, $1,200
Nonprofit, school or public agency discount, a payment plan, or your two free seats? Book a free consult first and I will set it up.
What we cover
Week 1: the first six minutes
Openings that spend attention instead of requesting it. You rewrite your own opening and run it.
Week 2: participation by design
Chat, polls, writing and small rooms, so the quiet person can win without performing.
Week 3: reading the room
Spotting the drop in real time and adjusting before you lose the room, which is the skill stand-up taught me.
Week 4: the close
Decisions, owners and dates on screen before anybody leaves, plus your thirty day check.
Who this is for
Managers, trainers, HR leads and educators who run live sessions and want them to land.
If you are not sure this is the right one, book a consult and describe the room. I would rather move you to a different program than sell you this one.
Get the dates first.
Cohorts open to the list before they go public.
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What you leave with
A written assessment of your facilitation against six criteria, scored by me on a 0 to 3 scale. To pass you need a 2 or better on every criterion and a 3 on at least half. It is not a certificate, and it is not automatic. It is a page that says what you can do and what you still cannot, which is the only version of this that is worth anything to you.
What happens in each session
Every session runs ninety minutes live, with every person practicing. The list below is the actual running order, published before you book rather than described on a consult.
Session 1
The first three minutes
What you say before the agenda decides whether people speak for the next ninety. Opening without an icebreaker, setting the participation contract out loud, and the specific sentence that gets the first contribution out of a silent room.
You leave able to:
- Open a session without an icebreaker
- State a participation contract
- Get the first contribution within three minutes
Session 2
Designing for participation
Building a session where contribution is structural rather than hopeful. Where to place the first exercise, how to pace a ninety-minute block, and what to cut when you are running long.
You leave able to:
- Place the first practice moment
- Pace a ninety minute block
- Cut content live without losing the thread
Session 3
Breakouts that return something
Most breakout rooms produce nothing because nothing was asked for. Writing the brief, sizing the group, assigning the role that makes the report-out real, and what to do with what comes back.
You leave able to:
- Write a breakout brief that produces output
- Size and role a breakout group
- Run a report-out that is not a formality
Session 4
The close that names names
Ending with decisions, owners and dates rather than thanks. The last ten minutes, the follow-up that goes out the same day, and how to make the session traceable a month later.
You leave able to:
- Close with decisions, owners and dates
- Write the same-day follow-up
- Leave a record the sponsor can act on
Look inside
One session, designed
