#Teams365 1028: Virtual Facilitation Tip #13

Our 13th (lucky or unlucky!?!) virtual facilitation tip gets you thinking about having back ups. There are a variety of technical issues that can go awry and having a back up is always a good thing when not only working with groups, but especially virtually. Some back up items you may need:

1. Back up computer system -once in
2. Contact details for participants – in the event your main system goes down, how will you be able to reach out to the wider community
3. Back up bridge line or Webinar line
4. Back up materials – on usb key and potentially hard copy
5. A number for your IT support – whomever that may be!

 
There’s nothing worse than experiencing a tech glitch while facilitating. Consider what, and where, you want to have these things on hand. Given that many of us work virtually it can also be important to think about how you store these to travel with you.
PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE – do a dry run using all your material and the different technologies using the system you will be facilitating from And remember….while practice makes perfect it may still not mitigate against ALL the tech challenges that can arise.

Have fun,
Jennifer

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