How to Moderate a Panel Discussion: Moderator's Role (Video #2, 6 1/2mins)

Welcome to the second video in the 7-part video e-course on Powerful Panels: How to Moderate a Lively and Informative Panel Discussion with professional panel moderator Kristin Arnold.

This second video focuses on describing the role of the moderator.

As the moderator, your job is to help the audience get their needs met through a panel format. You set the tone, the pace and control the content, staying ever-vigilant in keeping it relevant for the audience. It is your responsibility to make sure the panel is lively, engaging and worthwhile. The success (or failure) of the program rests largely in your hands.

Depending on the panel objectives, the panel moderator, has several roles and responsibilities:

Champion for the audience
Facilitator
Timekeeper
Logistician
Instigator
Content Coordinator
Energizer
Neutral & Objective Voice

You can find out more information on how to moderate a lively and informative panel discussion at www.PowerfulPanels.com

Award-winning author Kristin Arnold is an expert in the area of leading workplace teams. As a high stakes meeting facilitator, keynote speaker, and professional panel moderator, Kristin has worked with over a hundred different organizations, three hundred different teams, and presented to over a half a million people around the world on the topics of leadership, strategy, innovation, critical thinking and teamwork. Just visit www.extraordinaryteam.com for more information!

As the past President of the National Speakers Association of the United States (2010-11) and one of the first female graduates of the United States Coast Guard Academy, Kristin brings 20 years of practical team building experience to your audience. She has worked with small businesses to Fortune 500 companies and is equally adept on the shop floor as she is in the executive boardroom.

She is considered to be the foremost expert on moderating panel discussions as well as author of five books including the award-winning book, Boring to Bravo: Proven Presentation Techniques to Engage, Involve, and Inspire Your Audience to Action. She is also a contributing author to myriad other team-based books such as The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation.

Kristin Arnold, professional panel moderator, and high stakes meeting facilitator is on a crusade to make all panel discussions informative, interactive, and interesting - and to help YOU become a better panel moderator.

Why? Because 95% of annual meetings have panel discussions – and it’s a fifty-fifty proposition they are any good at all! Expectations decrease dramatically when your attendees walk in and see the traditional draped head-table with microphones on short stands. There are sooooo many other ways to have a stimulating conversation! So let's increase the probability of success for your next panel discussion with these resources:

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Start your free 7-part video e-course that teaches you how to be a powerful panel moderator at https://kristin-s-school-70c8.thinkif....

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