PANEL FACILITATION & PARTICIPATION TRAINING

Panel Facilitation and Participation Training is ideal for those who want to make the panels they facilitate or participate in productive, efficient, and enjoyable. As a moderator or panelist, you play an important but distinct role in making the panel discussion a success.

Moderators -- Learn how to:

• Collaborate with panelists
• Practice your introduction, questions, and closing remarks
• Get the discussion off to a lively start
• Choose the right methods for taking audience questions
• Rescue a panelist who needs help
• Balance the participation among panelists
• Pose questions to panelists without putting them "on the spot"
• Keep discussions moving by transitioning and summarizing
• Conclude discussions effectively
• Communicate effectively with your voice, eye contact, handshakes, body language, posture, and more
• Create an effective set-up of equipment- microphones, cameras, and lighting

Panelists -- Learn how to:

• Prepare with the moderator and other panelists
• Create compelling, concise remarks on topics you've been asked to address
• Respond to questions with brevity
• Answer difficult or hostile questions with ease
• Communicate effectively with your voice, eye contact, handshakes, body language, posture, and more
• Offer another perspective respectfully
• Help other panelists look good
• Monitor your own movements to avoid distractions
• Speak comfortably in the panel environment- microphones, cameras, and lighting

Click on Private Coaching or Group Training to learn more about the training format that's best for you.