The Remote Facilitator's Pocket Guide

Learn how to make virtual meetings powerful means of collaboration using proven techniques to accommodate a diversity of cultures, locations, and personalities.

"Collaboration and creativity across distance isn't out of reach. Remote meetings can be engaging and productive. This book will show you how." —Esther Derby, author of seven Rules for Positive, Productive Change

Many people struggle with remote meetings: a cocktail of factors, such as technical barriers and invisible group norms, increase the uncertainty and risk of the already vulnerable task of collaborating and sharing ideas. When remote meetings go badly, they go really badly. Few things feel as lonely and intimidating as speaking to a screen with unreadable faces staring back in silence. This book will help you improve the quality of your remote meetings. With a little awareness, some planning, and some practice, you can make your remote meetings an effective, engaging, and powerful mechanism for collaboration within your organization.

This book is for anyone seeking to get more value from remote meetings. Whether you're a seasoned facilitator, a new facilitator, or someone hoping to improve team meetings, you will be empowered with principles and actionable methods to enhance your organization's effectiveness.

"We are all woefully unprepared for the evolution of effective spaces into the distributed environment. This book teaches us what to do so that we need not be." —Aveshan Govender, Engineering Manager, Spotify

"This is inclusive design at its finest. . . . I have an increasing demand for distributed facilitation, and this approach is the best I've ever experienced." —Cara Turner, CEO, Project codeX