One participant refused to be muted.

I had the pleasure of working with some amazing people this week, facilitating conflict management and personal safety virtual workshops. This is an area where compliance is essential for my customer.

To overcome the stigma often associated with "compliance training" I had designed it with interaction in mind, we had a range of Apps through which we explored our relationship with conflict, board games, jeopardy activities, video, and tunes, I am confident that the design is both visually appealing and stimulating.

I knew that I didn't need to work too hard to encourage collaboration, all cameras were on and people were bopping to the tunes and making requests. So with just a few words of reassurance about getting involved, and having an opinion, off we went.

One participant, the lovely Sharon had a parrot who embraced the event fully, he squawked along to the tunes, threw in the odd opinion in the breakout rooms, and appeared on occasions to be summarising, although probably mimicking this was highly entertaining.

Thinking that he was becoming a distraction I said "Sharon....move away from the bird". I fell fowl here because he just became more engaged and attention seeking.

Having commented previously on lack of engagement I'm reminded of that saying, be careful what you wish for.