Episode 143: How to deliver hybrid workshops (sessions with both in-person and virtual participants) with Leanne Hughes
How do you deliver engaging workshops when 50% of your participants are in-person at your event, and the other 50% are dialling in? Leanne Hughes shares her responses, and answers other listener questions in this live-stream, podcast recording!
In this Flipchart live-stream event, I answer the following three questions:
How do you embed leadership workshop material through coaching sessions held after your workshop?
How do you facilitate a hybrid workshop, where you have guests in-person, and guests who dial in?
How do you say goodbye and end your virtual workshop, without it being too awkward?
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About your host: Leanne Hughes
Leanne Hughes is an international facilitator, speaker and coach who loves creating unpredictable workshop experiences, that predictably work.
She combines her experience in Marketing, with her education in Human Resources and Psychology, to help leaders create engaging everyday experiences - that are so contagious they scale across teams, functions and regions.
Leanne has facilitated leadership, onboarding and team-development workshops across Australia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore and believes in a strengths-centred approach to learning and development. She has over 13 years’ of experience across a range of industries including mining, government and tourism sectors.
She’s the host of the First Time Facilitator podcast and was a finalist in the 2018 Australian Learning Impact awards for Learning Professional of the Year.
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Episode 142: Curing decision-making disorders through the craft of consulting with Deb Zahn
Deb Zahn is a sought-after consultant with 10 years of successful consulting under her belt. As a go-to source in her market, she routinely brings in 6- and 7-figures a year and has built a steady, reliable pipeline of work. Her consulting methods turn her clients into her biggest fans and best marketers. They come back to her again and again and continually send her new clients.
As you know, this pod is a little different to other facilitation/learning/trainings podcasts, in that it doesn’t just focus on the craft. I enjoy sharing ideas and conversations around the business of facilitation.
I know many listeners who are exploring or tossing up the opportunity of going out on your own - of being your own boss.
As I’m 18 months into my own journey, I always love the opportunity to discuss what it takes to do that, to build and maintain your sanity! Today’s guest is an absolute rock-star when it comes to this, too - so if you’re into building your own facilitation business, or becoming a consultant, you will love this episode.
About today’s guest: Deb Zahn
Deb Zahn is a sought-after consultant with 10 years of successful consulting under her belt. As a go-to source in her market, she routinely brings in 6- and 7-figures a year and has built a steady, reliable pipeline of work. Her consulting methods turn her clients into her biggest fans and best marketers. They come back to her again and again and continually send her new clients.
As a consultant, Deb is especially known for her ability to cure “decision-making disorders” with individuals and groups. She also has earned a reputation as “The Closer,” the consultant who can get high-value contracts with hard-to-get clients. Over the last decade, she has coached countless new consultants and helped them fast track their success. Recently, Deb helped a new consultant get their first contract—worth over $100,000—only three weeks after Deb started coaching them.
She is the host of the Craft of Consulting podcast, which features other successful consultants who share their strategies and insights about building their consulting businesses and delighting their clients as well as consulting clients who share what makes some consultants rise to the top of their hire list.
In this episode you will learn how to:
Define your value to help your clients achieve the results they want
Develop the skill of pivoting conversations to explore outcomes
Focusing on value, not price
Creating boundaries to create work-life balance
Explore opportunities as a facilitator/consultant during COVID
Here are some sample questions I asked Deb:
How did you develop the skill of pivoting language?
How do you help people pick their niche?
How do you create boundaries and create work life balance?
How did you develop your communication skills?
What are your thoughts about creating handles on Instagram?
Resources:
Quotes:
“Excellence is how you build a business.”
“If you make that switch to really being of service to who you want to serve, then everything gets easier.”
Build your facilitation skills:
Join The Flipchart, a Facebook community of over 1000 facilitators from all over the world
Sign up for a free mini-course: From Zoomtigue to Zoomtastic!
Watch the video!
About your host: Leanne Hughes
Leanne Hughes is an international facilitator, speaker and coach who loves creating unpredictable workshop experiences, that predictably work.
She combines her experience in Marketing, with her education in Human Resources and Psychology, to help leaders create engaging everyday experiences - that are so contagious they scale across teams, functions and regions.
Leanne has facilitated leadership, onboarding and team-development workshops across Australia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore and believes in a strengths-centred approach to learning and development. She has over 13 years’ of experience across a range of industries including mining, government and tourism sectors.
She’s the host of the First Time Facilitator podcast and was a finalist in the 2018 Australian Learning Impact awards for Learning Professional of the Year.
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The 5 unpredictable ways to start a Zoom meeting (that predictably work)
Episode 141: Getting you further, faster in career (and in life) with Warren James
Warren James is a Brisbane-based coach and mentor providing online mentoring, coaching and training to some of Australia’s most talented graduates and employees early in their careers.
Today, as the founder of Rapid Mentoring, he partners with businesses across Australia who are genuinely interested in the development of their staff. For the manager who cares, they give your employees the resources they need to take their career and life further, faster.
We’re switching gears and I’m talking to my good friend, Warren James about LIFE stuff. Okay and a bit of work stuff, including developing our careers and performance reviews
BUT we also delve into sleep, switching off, clarifying your vision, and dealing with stress.
Warren is a Brisbane-based coach and mentor providing online mentoring, coaching and training to some of Australia’s most talented graduates and employees early in their careers.
Check out Warren’s new book: Further Faster!
He also released his first book this week called: Further Faster: The ultimate guide to accelerating your career
Warren has developed his career from the ground-up and has worked with some of the most respected businesses in the industry including BG Group, Shell, QGC, Alinta and Arrow Energy.
As an engineer and later, a project manager, he has faced and overcame challenges that many projects managers face. He has managed projects in excess of $50M, overcome competing deadlines and overcome adversity time and time again.
Having lived and breathed this industry for more than 10 years, he understands what today’s graduates need to not only survive but thrive.
Today, as the founder of Rapid Mentoring, he partners with businesses across Australia who are genuinely interested in the development of their staff.
About today’s guest: Warren James
Warren James is a Brisbane-based coach and mentor providing online mentoring, coaching and training to some of Australia’s most talented graduates and employees early in their careers.
He has developed his career from the ground-up and has worked with some of the most respected businesses in the industry including BG Group, Shell, QGC, Alinta and Arrow Energy.
As an engineer and later, a project manager, he has faced and overcame challenges that many projects managers face. He has managed projects in excess of $50M, overcome competing deadlines and overcome adversity time and time again.
Having lived and breathed this industry for more than 10 years, he understands what today’s graduates need to not only survive but thrive.
Today, as the founder of Rapid Mentoring, he partners with businesses across Australia who are genuinely interested in the development of their staff. For the manager who cares, they give your employees the resources they need to take their career and life further, faster.
In this episode you will learn:
Handling stress, feeling of overwhelm and exhaustion from work
How to get started writing a book
How personal life, career goals, bucket list and finances are important in accelerating your career
Creating balance by planning ahead and creating a vision
Switching off, sleeping better
How to accelerate your career during ing career Covid
Here are some questions I asked Warren during the interview:
Can you please share some pivots, watershed moments in your career that brought you to what you’re doing today?
You mentioned that you were stressed and burnt out, and at the end of that project you took four months off, what was going through your mind when you were in the middle of that feeling overwhelmed, you must have been exhausted?
Is there anything that we could do if you’re caught in the middle of it, reflecting on this experience, if you could give yourself advice, what could you have done to mitigate it?
What were the first steps you took to get you into writing the book?
Can you share why four pillars (personal life, career goals, bucket list and finances) are so important in accelerating your career?
Tell us your strategy about annual performance reviews.
What advice can you give to people who want to accelerate their career especially during this time of Covid?
You’ve transitioned from accelerating your career to accelerating your business, how did you find that shift?
Resources:
Connect with Warren James on Linkedin
Rapid Mentoring website
Warren’s new book: Further Faster: The Ultimate Guide to Accelerating Your Career
Get on the waitlist for Virtually Possible 2.0!
Quotes:
It’s so much more professional to tell people “No!” earlier, than letting them down later down the track.
It’s important to look at your bucket list and the things that you really want to do, enjoy life as much as you can through the process.
Watch the video!
About your host: Leanne Hughes
Leanne Hughes is an international facilitator, speaker and coach who loves creating unpredictable workshop experiences, that predictably work.
She combines her experience in Marketing, with her education in Human Resources and Psychology, to help leaders create engaging everyday experiences - that are so contagious they scale across teams, functions and regions.
Leanne has facilitated leadership, onboarding and team-development workshops across Australia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore and believes in a strengths-centred approach to learning and development. She has over 13 years’ of experience across a range of industries including mining, government and tourism sectors.
She’s the host of the First Time Facilitator podcast and was a finalist in the 2018 Australian Learning Impact awards for Learning Professional of the Year.
Like this show?
Please leave me a review here — even one sentence helps! Consider including your Twitter handle so I can thank you personally.
Tweet Leanne your number one takeaway from this episode!
Grab my cheat sheet:
The 5 unpredictable ways to start a Zoom meeting (that predictably work)