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S3E8: Support Roles—Notetaking & Tech Hosting (with Heather Martinez)

Lauren Green Season 3 Episode 8

Whether your team needs help remembering information or navigating the complexities of virtual meetings, you can take on a meeting support role to level up the effectiveness of your team’s meeting. In this episode, Lauren breaks down the need for meeting notes and tips for taking them effectively, and guest Heather Martinez discusses the rold of tech host.

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EPISODE RESOURCES:
Understanding Visual Notetaking (video)
Dancing with Markers (website)
Start Your Visual Notetaking Journey (resource)
Let’s Letter Together (website)
Tech Host Academy (online course)
How to E3 Your Online Meetings (video)
Top 5 Vitals for Being a Successful Tech Host (video and blog)

Heather Leavitt Martinez is a practical mix of supporting others and modeling the way. Rooted in Appreciative Inquiry (AI), everything Heather does from training and facilitation to tech hosting is based in AI. She is a visual practitioner by trade, but quickly turned virtual facilitator at the start of the pandemic and brought many along with her. Heather is the director of Tech Host Academy, senior product manager at Kadabra, and is currently working with the Center of Appreciative Inquiry to deliver her work as a visual facilitator and tech host. 

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Written by Lauren Green and produced by Caitlin Murray.

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