The Quest

Ever wonder how you could add ✨instant value✨ to your live online sessions? Let me share a little story with a super simple tip that may provide the answer. I joined a webinar about how to write and publish a book led by Michael Bungay Stanier, the renowned author of The Coaching Habit. If you don’t know […]

Have you ever found yourself caught between sticking to “the plan” and having to pivot on the fly? 🤔 A few weeks ago, I was leading a Zoom session for a fiery group of 20 online course coaches. It was our final session. I wanted to make sure they walked away with online facilitation tools and […]

I had an energizing laser coaching call with a facilitator who had just completed Live Session Magic 🪄. She was looking for feedback on her session design for her new online course. Her outline was thoughtful, solid, and packed with great ideas. But guess what we spent more than half the session working on? ✨Clarifying the purpose […]

In the last issue of the Quest, I wrote about how to manage the “overtalkers” in live online sessions. But there’s a flip side to that coin. 🪙 “How do you get the ‘𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀’ to speak up?” You may know the feeling. To avoid painful awkward silence you give the floor to the chatty […]

Have you ever struggled to manage the “overtalkers” in your live sessions? 🤔 You may know the feeling… You throw out a question. The usual suspect’s hand shoots up. No one else steps forward, so you give them the floor. Before you know it they’ve hijacked the conversation. You can feel your stress levels rising as […]

Greetings from a chilly Toronto we have been braving the Arctic Vortex.🥶❄️ An intriguing question popped up in the chat in one of my online training sessions: “How do you make sure that people aren’t multitasking?” 👆That question gets to the heart of one of the biggest challenges we face as online session leaders: ⚡️Keeping […]