Virtual Meetings and Events | NeOlé Consulting

Turn your key meetings into productive and collaborative online events

Without knowing how long this current COVID-19 crisis will last, you can’t afford to cancel vital meetings indefinitely or put your facilitation work on hold.

You’ve probably had people tell you, “Just do it online,” and you’re left wondering, “Can this even be done?”

The answer is YES, and we are here to help!

Are you...

A meeting organizer who must now find alternatives to gatherings that are vital to the operation of your company or nonprofit?

An event organizer who must let participants know that the event they’ve been looking forward to is cancelled or postponed indefinitely?

A freelance facilitator of retreats, advisory boards, conferences, and other events with tons of experience on face-to-face facilitation but not familiar or comfortable with virtual facilitation tools?

The technology exists today to take any meeting or larger event into the virtual realm. All you need is a video conferencing platform, an online collaboration tool that integrates well with the video conferencing platform, and some creativity.

We’ll work with you to enable productive and engaging virtual meetings and events, so that you don’t sacrifice much-needed time with your team.

What we offer:

We are experienced and skilled in facilitating virtual events, including board meetings, strategic planning, operational planning, employee development, town hall meetings, stakeholder engagements and large international events. Our network includes facilitators fluent in English, Spanish, French and other languages.

We enhance your online event collaboration and engagement through digital facilitation tools and innovative meeting agendas.

Our digital facilitators have an in-depth understanding of the technology and how to use it creatively to meet your objectives.

We work with you on a meeting agenda, do the technical set-up including registration, and provide technical support.

If you prefer to use your own facilitators, we can work with them to create an agenda that combines the best of the technology and some innovative facilitation techniques.

For larger events such as conferences, speakers can be live-streamed from wherever they are in the world. We can set-up panel discussions, even if the panelists live in different countries. Where you planned for participants to have group discussions, we customize online collaboration tools tailored to your needs.

We show you how to do polls, enable participant chats, queue up questions, raise hands, react with emojis and more. Our digital facilitators know how to make the most of the software to guarantee a rich experience for all participants.

We will provide a full meeting report a few days after the event!

What about networking?

An aspect of conference-going that most people find extremely valuable is networking. Can people network virtually? We say “yes” if the following conditions are met:

Enough opportunities are provided for interaction with fellow participants

Attendees are rotated through small-group intentional and purposeful conversations

Networking exercises are adapted to create real human connection

The result can be a networking experience that will lead to lasting connections. Ask our digital facilitators how this can be done.

If you’d like to chat about virtual options for your important meetings and events.

Case Study

Annually over the past few years, Idea Makers has facilitated a series of in-person ideation sessions. Two weeks before the first session, all in-person meetings were cancelled due to COVID-19; the company’s team members were now working from home. Marlene reached out to NeOlé.

What People Are Saying About Our Digital Facilitation Services

"I have had the pleasure of working with NeOlé in a number of settings over the past decade. Their creative and collaboerative approach to training, group facilitation and problem solving greatly influenced the work we did with frontline workers across Ontario. I have adopted a number of their strategies into my own work, and never hesitate to call on NeOlé to lead a session at our annual event."

" I loved the use of the interactive technology for real-time engagement. And the facilitators were wonderful, intuitive, intelligent, able to manage group ebs/flows and adjust accordingly."

"NeOlé's virtual facilitation services were an eye-opening experience for our globally-dispersed organization. The level of engagement and productive work that we accomplished rapidly turned skeptics into rabid fans, which is why we continue to hire NeOlé."

"Thank you so much for partnering with us on Voices of Progress. With a last-minute pivot from a different platform, your team helped to guide us and feel more confident that we could still create a unique and special event through Zoom. And your production and support throughout the event last night was very helpful, so that we could concentrate more on the content and the donors' experience."

"I recently had the opportunity to use Stormz for a client innovation initiative that involved a co-creation format. We had consumers ideating and developing along with the client team. Stormz was the perfect format in which to accomplish this. Ginny and her team are true professionals. The project was a great success."

"You guys are fantastic to partner with. You provide a sense of calm and confidence in what would otherwise be a very stressful situation."

When done right, virtual convening can be as conducive to creating the amazing things that happen when we get together face-to-face. We invite you to be open to the possibilities!

Planning an important meeting or event?
Looking for training or team development?
Would you like to turn your expertise into an online course?
Do you have any questions about what we can do for you?
Just want to say “Hello”?

info@neole.ca

416-818-6092

Toronto, ON