Many experts recommend that hybrid remote events succeed when we separately handle the needs of colocated individuals and the needs of dispersed individuals. This may get you through the event, but it introduces long-term problems in the organization. Any sense of us-vs-them becomes amplified when we take care of the needs of different groups separately. […]| Mark Kilby
What do you do when you facilitate online with high-quality visual whiteboards like Mural and Miro and then are asked to facilitate a group with some vision-challenged participants? You throw away the whiteboard. This was not the conclusion I was expecting when I was recently given this problem, but researching what it meant to be […]| Mark Kilby
I just finished an engaging and energizing conversation with hundreds of employees online. This would have been unheard of in the past as most online discussions felt disconnected without a highly orchestrated plan and facilitation team. I had two assistants: one running the “tech” and another was an artificial intelligence platform (the AI tech). With […]| Mark Kilby
A colleague (let’s call her Rose) recently reached out with this question: “I’m going nuts trying to figure out decent ways to make big-room planning work in a hybrid model where some people are actually in the big room, and others are working remote. I’ve been accustomed to having a small number of people working […]| Mark Kilby
The last two years of being remote gave us isolation, distraction, rushed meetings, repeat meetings (because we didn’t finish the work) and lost participants. And it doesn’t have to be like that. It can actually be better than in person. Working remotely for the last several years brought connections and collaborations I never would have […]| Mark Kilby