If participants in your virtual facilitation are disengaged, start by shaking things up with a quick icebreaker or interactive poll to re-energize the group ?. Call on individuals by name to invite them into the conversation, but in a non-threatening way, like asking for their opinion or insight ???. Break up long monologues with quick, engaging activities like using the chat, whiteboards, or breakout rooms to encourage interaction ??. Use open-ended questions to spark deeper discussions and give people room to share. Keep things visually engaging by incorporating slides, videos, or live drawing ??. Finally, acknowledge contributions and celebrate ideas to make everyone feel valued and motivated to participate ??.

Crickets can be a facilitators worst nightmare! If you find that you are not getting engagement, you can: 1. Acknowledge the elephant in the room - "I am noticing that I may have lost some of you. To help me gauge where the best place for the group to go next, please put in the chat: on a scale of 1-10 how engaged you are (1-not at all 10-super engaged). Add one question that you would hope to be answered in the session and we will try to get to the most common." 2. Give heads up of upcoming cold calls - "I would love to hear from a few of you after this next slide so think about what you might like to share." 3. Pose a question aloud & in the chat and put the group in breakouts of small groups or pairs for 5 minutes to get them talking.

Connect with them - Purpose, engagement, trust and connection. Visualization on why the session was setup , what's agenda looks like for X TIME , Breaks and re-grouping on what next. Use POMODORO like 15 mins discussion then 5 min break and after 2 hours longer break use light humor ice breaking Energizers in between 1-2 mins breathing, stretching breaks Share a photo What's on your mind - Food you would like to eat after session Use Visualization and less content

Je pense que parfois pour savoir récupérer un apprenant qui décroche surtout en distanciel, il est bien de changer de sujet, discuter d'un sujet qui peut passionné et réveiller les esprits. Parfois aussi l'humour, un ton décalé, un mot ou une phrase peut raviver une perte d'attention..

Tough one if they do not turn on their camera. Cos that means no one can see their facial expression or non-verbal cues. 2 tips: 1. Ask them to respond via the chat 2. Put them in the breakout room and encourage them to turn on their camera for a more interactive session with the other participants.