Learning While Working Podcast What does a conversation architect do? with Joshua Davies
Conversations are at the core of how we learn with each other, too often live sessions both face-to-face and online are presentations not conversations. Moving online does make designing learning around conversations more challenging but not impossible. In this interview Robin is talking with Joshua Davies from Knowmium about what a conversation architect does. Powerful conversations helping people transform the way they think and behaviour don't just happen, they need to be planned and designed. This podcast will give you ideas and strategies on how to design conversations.
Joshua and the team at Knowmium have put together the Radically Remote Facilitation Toolkit which is a book, a toolkit of templates for activities, a short course and tutorials on using Zoom.
About Joshua Davies
Joshua is the founder of Knowmium. He has 14 years of business and communications training experience in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, as well as both South and North America. He has worked with Fortune 100 companies around the world, conducting research, coaching and workshops on various areas of communications improvement at all levels of management.
Links from the podcast
- Find out more Knowmium
- Connect with Joshua Davies
- Radically Remote Facilitation Toolkit
- Find out more about Liberating Structures
- Whiteboarding tools - Miro, Conceptboard and MURAL
- Polling - Typeform, Mentimeter
- Tools for analysing your online sessions - Otter for transcripts, Marco for monitoring participation and Cyran for automatic analysis
Questions and ideas to explore from this interview
- How could your online sessions become conversations?
- Could your session planning be more like designing a map of options and different directions for a conversation rather than writing session notes?
- Learner expectation about what online learning is. How can these expectations be broken down?
- What Liberating Structures could you use in your online sessions?
- How could you make your sessions be more like ‘spaces’ by using collaborative whiteboard tools such as Miro?
- How can you structure and scaffold complex, powerful questions so they are easier for your learners to interact with?
- Does your icebreaker and check-in actually prepare your participants to share deeply in the session?
- How could you use video to bring the physical space around your participants?
- How could you use transcriptions to analyse your sessions?