514: The Way to Lead Online Events, with Tim Stringer

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Education, Business, Management, Self-improvement, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Tim Stringer: Technically Simple Tim Stringer is a coach, consultant, and trainer and the founder of Technically Simple. He provides productivity, technology and workflow coaching, consulting and training to people and organizations, large and small, all over the planet. His technology specializations include Asana, Daylite, OmniFocus, and Trello. He supports many people in productivity though his website LearnOmniFocus.com -- and also through the Holistic Productivity approach that he developed after coming face-to-face with cancer back in 2008. Tim consults to leaders and organizations on how to use Zoom effectively and recently launched a new course: Leading Effective Zoom Events. In this conversation, Tim and I overview some of the common mistakes of online events, how online can produce even better results than in-person, and ways to engage people quickly. Plus, we review some of the key technology that will support your organization’s outreach efforts. Key Points It’s often a mistake to assume that you’ll be able to lead online events with the same planning and design for in-person events. Opening a meeting early and using the five-minute rule to begin with icebreakers, breakouts, polls, or reactions will help engage people in the event quickly. For events with many people or higher visibility for your organization, have a dedicated technology co-pilot so that hosts and speakers can stay focused on being present. Virtual lounges (with a dedicated host), spotlight and multi-spotlight, practice sessions, and preassigned breakouts can all help the technology disappear and the human connections to take center stage. Some organizations are discovering they are more successful with online events than past in-person ones. Many have had such a positive experience that they plan to continue leveraging virtual events after the pandemic. Resources Mentioned Leading Effective Zoom Events by Tim Stringer Recommended Practices for Engaging Online Events (PDF download) Related Episodes Serve Others Through Marketing, with Seth Godin (episode 381) How to Create Meaningful Gatherings, with Priya Parker (episode 395) How to Run an Online Meeting, with Bonni Stachowiak (episode 472) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

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0:00.0	That event you used to do in person, maybe you've just stopped doing it, or perhaps you
0:05.1	brought it online, but found that it just didn't work as well.
0:08.7	If that's happened to you or your organization, this episode will help you take some new
0:13.4	steps to leading online events.
0:16.4	This is Coaching for Leaders Episode 514.
0:21.0	Introduced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:30.5	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:33.2	This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahofiac.
0:38.4	Leaders aren't born.
0:39.8	They're made.
0:40.8	And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations.
0:46.6	One of the discoveries that so many of us have made over the recent years is how to
0:52.9	be more effective in working online, and particularly since the pandemic started.
0:57.6	Of course, so many of us have begun to use tools like Zoom, more than we ever imagined
1:04.3	we would.
1:05.3	And that has opened up new challenges, of course, but it has also opened up opportunities.
1:09.9	And today we're going to dive in on how we can do a better job of hosting an event online
1:16.2	so that we can really connect and engage well with the people we're serving.
1:21.0	I am so glad today to welcome back to the show Tim Stringer.
1:24.7	Tim is a coach, consultant and trainer, and he's also the founder of Technically Simple.
1:30.6	He provides productivity, technology, and workflow coaching, consulting and training
1:35.3	to all kinds of folks and organizations, large and small all over the world.
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