United We TransformCreate teamsGrade your agenda
Exercises/Reflection and Learning/5 Lessons Learned Presenting Group Activities Online
Team Reflection · Reflection and Learning

5 Lessons Learned Presenting Group Activities Online

5 Lessons Learned Presenting Group Activities Online is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Medium group (9-25)GROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In person, RemoteSETTING
High cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Learning Transfer This reflection and learning exercise strengthens Learning Transfer, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Judging by the torrent of emails my inbox received, questions like “Do I know any icebreakers that work on Zoom?” and “How do I build trust online?” were commonplace.
  2. I never held myself up as an expert, rather an explorer along with everyone else.
  3. In short, facilitating group activities online IS a very different beast to facilitating live in-person groups.
  4. There are many transferable skills in presenting group activities online, but they are not the same skill set.
  5. Share LEADERSHIP TIPS 20 Oct 20 0 Comments 7 Lessons Learned Presenting Group Activities Online BY MARK COLLARD EXPERIENTIAL TRAINER, AUTHOR & SPEAKER When the pandemic hit early in 2020, the overwhelming focus of my work shifted to adapting everything I knew that worked for an in-person group to the online world.
Live facilitator

Run this exercise live

The facilitator console stays in this browser. Its QR handoff is a short-lived participant snapshot containing only public exercise instructions, phase, prompt, and timer state.

Prompts to use +

Judging by the torrent of emails my inbox received, questions like “Do I know any icebreakers that work on Zoom?” and “How do I build trust online?” were commonplace.

There are many transferable skills in presenting group activities online, but they are not the same skill set.

Share LEADERSHIP TIPS 20 Oct 20 0 Comments 7 Lessons Learned Presenting Group Activities Online BY MARK COLLARD EXPERIENTIAL TRAINER, AUTHOR & SPEAKER When the pandemic hit early in 2020, the overwhelming focus of my work shifted to adapting everything I knew that worked for an in-person group to the online world.

Run this with your AI assistant +

Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.

Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: 5 Lessons Learned Presenting Group Activities Online. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Judging by the torrent of emails my inbox received, questions like “Do I know any icebreakers that work on Zoom?” and “How do I build trust online?” were commonplace.; There are many transferable skills in presenting group activities online, but they are not the same skill set.; Share LEADERSHIP TIPS 20 Oct 20 0 Comments 7 Lessons Learned Presenting Group Activities Online BY MARK COLLARD EXPERIENTIAL TRAINER, AUTHOR & SPEAKER When the pandemic hit early in 2020, the overwhelming focus of my work shifted to adapting everything I knew that worked for an in-person group to the online world.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

Origin unverified

  • Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Playmeo; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Playmeo.)
  • What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
  • No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
  • Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.

Pairs well with