Bowling Green

A few weeks ago I co-hosted a webinar with Sara Ismail-Beigi and Jonathan Thomas Meenach, two students from Bowling Green University’s Masters of Organization Development Program. The first thing we talked about in our planning were our own experiences as both leaders and participants in other webinars. Here’s the short list we developed:  

• There was some technology glitch every time

  • Presenters took the lead in several areas:

    • Picking the date and time

    • Defining the content to be covered

    • Talking anywhere between 90-100% of the time during the session

    • Leaving us to figure out how to apply what we’d learned “offline"

The list was sobering. The power seemed all out of whack. The ones supposed to learn had little, if any, power, save for signing up and joining the webinar.