Episode 112: Virtual meeting and workshop tips from the Remote Meeting Guy, Jonas Rajanto
Today’s guest, Jonas Rajanto’s life has changed over the last two weeks - he has been in demand, helping individuals and businesses pivot their offline offerings, online.
Jonas is based in Finland and is affectionately known as “The Remote Meeting Guy”. In this show we talk about energy required to facilitate online workshops and how we can build trust early on in our virtual experiences and interactions. Jonas also shares some of his favourite tech tools for getting interaction and early involvement in online group settings. I also love his career back-story and how he evolved to being the engineer who can speak human.
Jonas believes you don't need to travel, to get the best out fo group meetings and training session. He helps others bring the best practices of facilitation online. Such as:
- know the purpose, participants, and process
- success starts at the invitation
- clear technical barriers to participation
- establish focus and psychological safety at the start
- always keep engaging
- always keep visualizing
- don't go alone. team up!
I also want to take this opportunity to really thank Jonas for the contribution he has brought to the Flipchart community on Facebook His responses to questions on anything virtual are incredibly helpful, simple to follow and comprehensive as well. In this episode, he also shares how sharing his tips online, helps him constantly learn, too!
About today’s guest: Jonas Rajanto
Jonas helps people with remote work, especially when they gather around the virtual campfire. His mission is to train groups in organizations large and small. He aims to make people feel that their time was well spent and with a purpose during team meetings.
Jonas came to Grape People from the IT services industry where he developed tools and processes for more efficient collaboration.
At Grape People, Jonas shifted his focus to interacting remotely and developing ways to help teams take their collaboration to the next level.
As a facilitator, Jonas specializes in telecommuting and virtual collaboration. He coaches team leaders, project managers, trainers, salespeople, and others for whom web opportunities are an integral part of their work. Jonas's mission is to make telecommuting as natural as working in the same room.
Resources mentioned in this episode
Connect with Jonas on Linkedin
Send Jonas a thank you tweet @VirtualJonas
Want Grape People to help you with virtual facilitation training and virtual workshop facilitation? Email service@grapepeople.fi f
If you’d like to contact Jonas directly for interviews, speeches or other personal gigs, you can contact him directly: jonas@grapepeople.fi.
Tools Jonas recommends:
Quotes from the episode:
“Social engineering is creating a structure for people to feel safe, be themselves so they can lean into the work.”
“It’s harder to communicate your energy without body language.”
“Slowly expand your comfort zone, so once you’re more confident with the tools, you can try some more advanced methods.”
Leanne's upcoming virtual events
Go Live Before You Go Live: If you'd like to "go live, before you go live", Leanne Hughes is organising an opportunity for peers to practice sharing screens, putting out polls, using interactive instructions ("raise your hands!"), responding to the chat and more; in a safe training environment.
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