The Look & Sound of Leadership

How to Create Engagement Online


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Convinced that participants need to engage in order to learn, a leader is discouraged after the cheerless rollout of her online learning program. She turns to her coach for help facilitating virtual groups.

Tools in this episode:

Tone-setting at the opening:

  1. Get people engaged by using the chat to think together;
  2. Get people engaged by thinking about how they will show up (ground rules);
  3. Ask: “How engaged do you want to be?” Rank 1 – 7 in chat. 

(#3 came from Michael Bungay Stanier who wrote The Coaching Habit and hosts the Change Signal podcast. Much gratitude!)


Three facilitation skills:

  1. Use learning questions;
  2. Redirect; don’t be the hub;
  3. Activate your deadpan.


All our infographics are available for free in our Tools Bin. Help yourself. 


Tom’s most recent conversation with Dave Stachowiak on Coaching for Leaders explored How to Take Initiative. A lively, thought-provoking episode.


Coaches! Join us at ICF Los Angeles’s Executive Coaching Special Interest Group. Check us out on the ICF-LA website, then come join us!


Categories in the archive to explore for more ideas about deepening relationships:

Communication Skills

Leading Teams


Episodes with more tools for engagement:

141 - High-Stakes Meetings

253 - How to Answer Questions Powerfully

213 - How to Re-engage a Team

34 - Keeping Repeated Material Fresh

175 - Leading Offsites

143 - Powerful Tools for Team: Plus / Delta

148 - Taming Meetings


Are you coach curious? Talk with Tom. Send him an email here.

 

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Until next time!

From The Look & Sound of Leadership team 


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