This Meeting Sucks

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

February 05, 2024 Lauren Green Season 3 Episode 8
S3E8: Support Roles—Notetaking & Tech Hosting (with Heather Martinez)
This Meeting Sucks
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This Meeting Sucks
S3E8: Support Roles—Notetaking & Tech Hosting (with Heather Martinez)
Feb 05, 2024 Season 3 Episode 8
Lauren Green

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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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.

👉 Download the visual summary notes for this episode.

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. 

Support the Show.

👉 Get notified when a new episode drops.
👉 Join the MeetingMakers Community on Facebook.

Written by Lauren Green and produced by Caitlin Murray.

S3E8: Support Roles—Notetaking and Tech Hosting
Making Meetings Memorable
The Benefits of Visual Notetaking
Tips for Notetaking in Meetings
The Role of the Tech Host
Heather's Tech Hosting Tips
A is for Approach Design
P is for Presence
T is for Tech Mastery
BONUS: The Role of Timekeeper