Thanks for being a Think With Ink subscriber! 2020 saw a pivot from VISUAL to VIRTUAL facilitation. In 2021, Think With Ink will return to form and refocus on visual facilitation methods.
To continue to share virtual facilitation methods, I’m very happy to announce a new book, Surviving the Horror of Online Meetings.
Along with the book, I’m launching Survival Tips, a new blog focused solely on virtual facilitation.
Survival Tips isn’t quite ready yet, but you can still sign up to be on the list to receive tips on virtual facilitation and updates on the book. As always, I’ll never sell or share your information with anyone.
And please note: being a Think With Ink subscriber won’t automatically make you a Survival Tips subscriber: you need to sign up!
While the Survival Tips blog still has a little work to do, the book is very nearly ready for launch! Surviving the Horror of Online Meetings takes the dread out of virtual meetings. It’s a survival guide for the online world. It shares simple practices to make your meetings engaging, energetic, and effective. In it, you’ll find:
The new etiquette of online meetings
Tips to prevent and overcome technology failures
The best ways to manage difficult personalities
How to head off distraction and disengagement
How to show up as your best self
How to make decisions that stick
How to create an experience of trust, safety, engagement, and inclusion
Your virtual meetings can stop being nightmares. You can defeat the Meeting Monsters that lurk at the edges of online meetings.
Surviving the Horror of Online Meetings will be available on Amazon in a few weeks. You’ll be notified when it’s available by signing up (same link as before.)
What people are saying about Surviving the Horror of Online Meetings
“Brian’s book of ‘frights’ appears after a year of pandemic enforced on-line meetings, and what is looking to be an unprecedented acceleration in the use of collaboration technology. I read his suggestions through the filter of 45 years of experience in this field and a complete pivot to on-line work myself, and it rings true and comprehensive. Bravo! My adrenaline is already pumping as I see those gremlins running for cover.”
“Surviving the Horror of Online Meetings is all about creating online moments of impact! Brian Tarallo reminds us that good meetings can amplify creative possibilities, deepen relationships, and contribute to vibrant and healthy cultures. And bad meetings - filled with avoidable “meeting monsters” - not only stifle innovation and progress, they also erode relational trust and organizational resilience. We can all learn to design better meetings. With an eye towards inclusion and equitable decision making, this book gives you practical advice on how to translate the process of designing good in-person meetings into the virtual space.”
“As world challenges have pushed us into the online space, we’ve had to consider what “connected” really means. The explosion of online meetings have enabled us to keep going and opened the way to a greater diversity of people meeting, but they also amplify everything. Getting skillful in online meetings is not only a necessity, it’s vital in supporting us all to be more inclusive and innovative. I value this pithy and highly practical book, offered with both the wisdom and humor to support all of us to create great meeting spaces online.”
Don’t be a victim to bad online meetings! Even if you’re not a professional facilitator, Surviving the Horror of Online Meetings will show you how to take the dread out of online meetings. With an eye towards inclusion and equitable decision making, it will teach you to translate in-person meetings to the virtual space. It’s an essential guide on how to create productive spaces for the people online.