webinars in international companies
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webinars for companies
around the world
Hróbjartur Árnason
University of Iceland
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Locally distributed organisations
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Globally distributed organisations
Eimskip as an example
Some issues for distributed
organisations
• Leadership• "Using words to get things done"
• Motivating and modeling behaviour of groups
• Distribution can lead to isolation
• Creating and sustaining… • culture
• quality
• purpose
• Gettig things done• Projects across the company
• Getting from information to action (Transfer)
Two problems
Information overload
How do you motivate highly qualified people
We forget that our collegues read 10s or 100s of
emails a day, 100s of facebook updates, some blog
posts together with reports, articles, news ...
All day long they check for updates on their,
laptops, tablets, smartphones, televisions and
newspapers ...and they need to process it all.
"Why engage highly educated and skilled staff if you
just want to tell them what to do?"
"If you have many smart people in the organisation you
probably want to benefit from their "smartness"!"
Do we always use
the most modern
and appropriate
technologies to
communicate?
The British kept an empire working with mail
How can
webinars
help?
Mindmapping during a webinar
Participants
work together
on a mindmap
Co-creation
fosters
engagement
Getting order on our ideas F2F
Webinars with distributed collegues
Lessons learned
• Interactive webinars are a good way to work WITHdistributed collegues in active ways
Facilitators need to see benifit for themselves(motivation)
We need a clear path
Clear ideas about forms and methods
Tecnological support
We need support for facilitators
• New ways and methods are stressful, so facilitatorsreduce their actions to the familiar and „essential“
• Checklists
• Co-Pilots
Webinars can spur
engagement and
motivation
More information:
• On our blog: https://effectivewebinars.wordpress.com/
• Join or Facebook Group "Effective Webinars“
• Check out links to useful sources ==>
• Email me: [email protected]
10. March 2016
Hróbjatur Árnason
Univesity of Iceland