Virtual Leadership Development: how to master the new normal

What does supporting mean as an interpersonal skill in Virtual Collaboration? How well do your team members support each other in your virtual …

Want to boost the effectiveness of your virtual communications? In episode 28 of our Virtual Leadership Development series - How to leverage Interpersonal Skills, we do a deep dive into the interpersonal skills we can …

What impact do your choices about Tech issues have on your Virtual meetings?

In our 27th episode of Virtual Leadership Development - How to Manage the Tech, we focus on how connectivity and devices impact our connection …

How do you manage Tech in Virtual Meetings?

So often the start of a virtual session is delayed or even undermined by tech issues. In our 26th and 27th episode we focus on how to manage and approach this.

Topics we …

What can you do about Zoom Fatigue?

Zoom fatigue is described as the sense of being totally exhausted after a series of online meetings. In our previous episode we focused on the first two causes, and in this episode we …

Do you experience Zoom Fatigue? 

How does Zoom Fatigue impact on your own virtual meetings?

Zoom Fatigue can be described as the sense of being completely exhausted after a series of online meetings. This is no urban …

Curiosity is the fuel for connection and engagement…

The Recipe to bake your own Learning Nuggets…

The Magic Starts with Connection…

How do you overcome engagement challenges in your online sessions?

This episode continues how we, as leaders of a virtual workshop or meeting, can have a constructive impact on engagement.
Firstly this of course …

Building engagement in a virtual context can be much more challenging than in a face to face situation. Not only do the technical issues make it more …

Asking open questions is an essential element of Conscious Listening, especially in a virtual setting.

Most often, we ask closed questions, which …

In episode 2 on Conscious Listening, we identify and discuss Level 3 and 4.

With Level 3, we focus on what we call mind side-tracks. With this we mean all the thoughts, thought processes and reactions that occur and …

In our discussion, going beyond Active Listening, we define the 4 levels of Conscious Listening. Often, listening is defined as consisting of 3 levels, but in our model we identify 4 levels or channels. Level 1 covers …

In the 2nd episode on Conscious Listening we focus on how to manage our awareness in virtual situations, through better connection and curiosity, helping us to better understand what others are saying. In online …

In the virtual world, listening becomes much more important because of all the additional - real or perceived - barriers we need to overcome. However, instead of listening more, we tend to listen less.

We often listen …

To manage ourselves in a virtual leadership development context, we need to take ownership for our attitude and emotions related to the challenges we face.  How do we show up? Where is our focus when things are not …

We discuss the 7 key themes that always emerge in an RoE alignment conversation. These again, give rise or connect to every other topic or behaviour that is important to participants in a virtual interaction. …

Episode 13 continues our discussion on Rules of Engagement (RoE). We dive deeper into how the alignment process works and how to use this to create a …

The 12th episode dives into the first part of Rules of Engagement (ROE). The essence of Rules of Engagement is to align on how we engage with each …

We continue in our 11th episode with part 2 of the elements we need to own in the process. Especially in a virtual context, where distractions are so …

In Episode 10 we dive deeper into part 1 of the elements of the virtual process we need to own - whether as a facilitator, or as the leader of a …

After spending a few episodes talking through the challenges we face, we are now moving from what these challenges are, to how to master them.  We …

The last episode on the challenges covers technology failure or disruption. A key element in this challenge revolves around our own mind chatter …

In this episode we explore how multitasking as a BEHAVIOUR distracts us from constructively participating when collaborating online and what …

In episode 6 we cover firstly the challenge of excuses. Excuses can be found on the personal as well as on the relationship dimension, resulting from …

In episode 5 we dive into the challenge, Lack of Intention - when collaborating in a virtual space. We focus on six elements that all interact and …

In the 4th episode we dive deeper in the challenges that emanate from vulnerability and fear. Specifically, we talk about the mental barriers that …

In this overview episode we look at the challenges of virtual leadership from three perspectives or levels: the personal, the relationship and task level. We also touch on a few challenges to prepare for the deeper dive …

In the 2nd episode we start with what everyone now calls the New Normal, in which virtual leadership needs to function effectively. The rest of this episode provides an overview of the elements that contribute to making …

In episode 1, we cover the scope of the whole series, focusing on three key areas. We start with the powerful impact the online or virtual world …