Panel Facilitation and Participation Training is ideal for those who want to make the panels they facilitate or participate in productive, efficient, and enjoyable. As a moderator or panelist, you play an important but distinct role in making the panel discussion a success.

Moderators -- Learn how to:

●   Collaborate with panelists

●   Practice your introduction, questions, and closing remarks

●   Get the discussion off to a lively start

●   Choose the right methods for taking audience questions

●   Rescue a panelist who needs help

●   Balance the participation among panelists

●   Pose questions to panelists without putting them "on the spot"

●   Keep discussions moving by transitioning and summarizing

●   Conclude discussions effectively

●   Communicate effectively with your voice, eye contact, handshakes, body language, posture, and more

●   Create an effective set-up of equipment- microphones, cameras, and lighting

Panelists -- Learn how to:

●   Prepare with the moderator and other panelists

●   Create compelling, concise remarks on topics you've been asked to address

●   Respond to questions with brevity

●   Answer difficult or hostile questions with ease

●   Communicate effectively with your voice, eye contact, handshakes, body language, posture, and more

●   Offer another perspective respectfully

●   Help other panelists look good

●   Monitor your own movements to avoid distractions

●   Speak comfortably in the panel environment- microphones, cameras, and lighting

Click on Private Coaching or Group Training to learn more about the training format that's best for you.

"Janelle prepared by questioning our staff carefully and seriously to learn our objectives for her presentation. The result was that our message was received loud and clear and the process was enjoyable."

Marianne Brush
Assistant Executive Director
MSCPA, Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants