Webinars in international companies

webinars for companies

around the world

Hróbjartur Árnason

University of Iceland

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Locally distributed organisations

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Flickr

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

Getting order on our ideas ONLINE

with Mural.ly

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