Welcome to the third video in the 7-part video e-course on Powerful Panels: How to Moderate a Lively and Informative Panel Discussion with professional panel moderator Kristin Arnold.
This third video focuses on the first step of the five-step process: Clarify the Starting Conditions.
Just as an excellent party requires an overall theme, marvelous guests and careful planning, before the party can start, so does an excellent panel discussion. Follow this 5-step process to make sure your panel discussion is the highlight of the entire event!
Even at this point early in the planning phase, several decisions have already been made by the meeting chair and/or planner, so you need to come up to speed on what has already been decided and what assumptions have been made for you. When you clarify the starting conditions, you will find that you have much more freedom than you initially thought!
Have a chat with the meeting chair and/or planner to discuss:
The event
The panel title, objectives and format
The audience
Invited and confirmed panelists
Criteria for success
Room set
Audio/visual availability
Dress code/attire
For more information about how to moderate a lively and informative panel discussion, go to www.PowerfulPanels.com
Award-winning author Kristin Arnold is an expert in the area of leading workplace teams. As a high stakes meeting facilitator, keynote speaker, and professional panel moderator, Kristin has worked with over a hundred different organizations, three hundred different teams, and presented to over a half a million people around the world on the topics of leadership, strategy, innovation, critical thinking and teamwork. Just visit www.extraordinaryteam.com for more information!
As the past President of the National Speakers Association of the United States (2010-11) and one of the first female graduates of the United States Coast Guard Academy, Kristin brings 20 years of practical team building experience to your audience. She has worked with small businesses to Fortune 500 companies and is equally adept on the shop floor as she is in the executive boardroom.
She is considered to be the foremost expert on moderating panel discussions as well as author of five books including the award-winning book, Boring to Bravo: Proven Presentation Techniques to Engage, Involve, and Inspire Your Audience to Action. She is also a contributing author to myriad other team-based books such as The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation.
Kristin Arnold, professional panel moderator, and high stakes meeting facilitator is on a crusade to make all panel discussions informative, interactive, and interesting - and to help YOU become a better panel moderator.
Why? Because 95% of annual meetings have panel discussions - and it’s a fifty-fifty proposition they are any good at all! Expectations decrease dramatically when your attendees walk in and see the traditional draped head-table with microphones on short stands. There are sooooo many other ways to have a stimulating conversation! So let's increase the probability of success for your next panel discussion with these resources:
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