by The Grove | Feb 7, 2018 | Virtual Collaboration, Visual Facilitation
More than 50 authors joined in a three-day global book sprint to create The Visual Facilitation Field Guide, a project launched by Jeroen Blijsie in The Netherlands. The book’s co-editors are Jeroen, Tim Hamons in Singapore, and Rachel Smith in the United...
by Rachel Smith | Aug 8, 2017 | Virtual Facilitation, Virtual Meetings
In The Grove’s recent Facilitating Virtual Collaboration workshop, the topic came up about how facilitators can engage participants in a remote meeting so that they don’t check email, tune out, stop listening, and fail to … well… participate. My unusual and...
by The Grove | Apr 30, 2017 | Virtual Facilitation
Rachel Smith, The Grove’s director of digital facilitation services, is finishing a book about facilitating remote collaborative work. We chatted with her—virtually, of course—about the key themes she’s working with and what she’s learned along the way. Grove: Your...
by Rachel Smith | May 11, 2016 | Virtual Facilitation
I used to dislike using video in remote meetings. All the social cues we get from following another’s gaze simply don’t work on computer video. No matter where other people look, they seem to be captivated by something just out of view. Surprisingly, I’m getting...
by Rachel Smith | Sep 23, 2015 | Virtual Facilitation, Virtual Meetings
Have you ever been in the Despondent Pit of Techno-Despair? You know what I’m talking about if you’ve been there. You’ve been trying to get some type of technology to work, usually in front of other people. It probably worked yesterday, or even earlier today when you...
