10+ years coaching Business Leaders in Flow-Based Organisational Design & Flipp Leadership | Trained 3,000+ people to improve Business Agility | Business Director & Founder
Whenever Jean-Paul Bayley and I are facilitating one of our legendary (!) virtual classes, workshops or interactive sessions, I have my iPad connected to the session as a backup device to significantly improve the quality of our virtual facilitation. Here are 6 surprising functions that my iPad delivers: *** 1. It's a backup device. While my main device is connected via a wifi connection, the iPad connects via a 5G connection. If I lose connectivity in one, I can quickly jump to the other device without any disruption. *** 2. I never have to ask "do you see my screen?" I have my iPad right next to my main screen showing me what the participants see. *** 3. It monitors the main room When we have people working in breakout rooms, JP and I can visit the breakout with my main device and leave the iPad monitoring the main lobby. *** 4. It's an annotation tool If I have a need to annotate on a Mural, Miro or Powerpoint, I can grab my iPad and use the Apple Pencil to do any sketching or drawing (either using the annotation tool in Zoom or directly in Mural or Miro). *** 5. It's a digital flipchart If I need a blank "flipchart" to draw something on, I can use my iPad and Apple Freeform to draw whatever I need. *** 6. It's a alignment tool during simulations When JP and I teach Flight Levels, Kanban or Metrics, we often facilitate simulations such as TWiG in 2 groups. When we do that, I facilitate one group from my main device and my iPad join the group that JP is facilitating, that way I can see how far each group is progressing and allows JP and I to keep aligned. *** You can see my device in the central cell of the virtual Training from the BACK of the Room (TBR-VE) class JP and I are running at the moment. Ah! That's a seventh function: A bit of branding :-) Do you use a backup device? If you do, what other functions does it fulfil for you? If you don't, I invite you to give it a try and check if you get similar benefits. — If you enjoyed this post, follow me (Jose Casal) or check out some of my other posts. #LegendaryTraining #Training #TBR #TBRVE #Facilitation #VirtualFacilitation #FacilitationSkills #WorkshopFacilitation #RemoteWork
Oh, great examples! I can add one more from my own experience in pair-facilitation - 2nd device can be chat monitoring tool and handy to type/respond to messages or give chat instructions to participants.
Jean-Paul Bayley
2mo
Such a simple idea, and so effective Jose Casal.
10+ years coaching Business Leaders in Flow-Based Organisational Design & Flipp Leadership | Trained 3,000+ people to improve Business Agility | Business Director & Founder
2moThanks to Jean-Paul Bayley, Alexander A. Giurca, Miriam Sors, John Sang, Ash Tiwari, Ana Mandić & Nagesh Sharma for being wonderful co-participants in the class (and the image!)