Excellent articles and videos about moderating a panel discussion from Kristin Arnold

Back on June 11, 2018 I had blogged about How should you stage a panel discussion at a conference? At Level 5 in the new Pathways educational program at Toastmasters International one elective project is to Moderate a Panel Discussion, as is briefly described in their evaluation form.

In my previous post I had linked to an article by Kristin Arnold in the April 2015 Toastmaster magazine on How to moderate a panel discussion. But I omitted both her next article in the November 2016 Toastmaster titled 10 Ways to add more pizzazz to your panel discussion and her previous article in the March 2014 Speaker magazine on Moderating Panel Discussions.

In addition to her Powerful Panels blog, Kristin has written another two dozen articles on a wide variety of topics at LinkedIn Pulse, titled as follows:

7 ways to totally botch panelist introductions - May 26, 2016

Meeting professionals: should you pay your panelists? - August 14, 2016

10 times panel moderators must intervene - September 1, 2016

Top 10 ways a panelist can liven up a panel discussion - October 3, 2016  

Panelist orientation: what every moderator needs to tell their panelists - December 29, 2016

7 Ways panel moderators can play referee during a panel discussion - February 21, 2017

Seven typical tasks in a panel discussion - March 7, 2017

How to use event technology during a panel discussion -  April 2, 2017

Panel moderator checklist to use right before a panel discussion - September 22, 2017

12 tips to moderate a panel discussion that flows naturally - October 30, 2017

Panel moderators: ace the art of asking follow-up questions - December 4, 2017

4 powerful characters for a panel discussion - February 21, 2018

How to cook up the perfect panel discussion - March 28, 2018

Panel moderators: which celebrity talk show host are you? - August 2, 2018

12 ways panel moderators can manage time effectively during a panel discussion - November 1, 2018 

How to round up DEEP panelists for a panel discussion - November 19, 2018

What would you do if you were asked to be on a “manuel”? - January 2, 2019

8 roles of a panel moderator - January 28, 2019

Use “escalating interventions” to intervene gracefully in your next meeting - February 28, 2019

5 essential elements of a powerful panelist - March 25, 2019

How moderators can manage awkward audience comments - April 2, 2019

10 Commandments of panel discussion microphone runners - September 20, 2019

Top 10 mistakes panel moderators make… and how to avoid them - October 24, 2019

7 ways you can get your message out during a panel discussion - December 11, 2019

Both her Toastmaster magazine articles also mention a free, seven-part video course, which you can watch on YouTube in almost exactly an hour (once you click to skip those darn ads):

How to moderate a panel discussion [1]: definition of a panel - 3:36

How to moderate a panel discussion [2]: moderator’s role - 6:29

How to moderate a panel discussion[3]: clarify the starting conditions – 6:55

How to moderate a panel discussion [4]: selecting great panelists – 5:22

How to moderate a panel discussion [5]: preparing for the panel - 12:35

How to moderate a panel discussion [6]: moderating the panel – 16:43

How to moderate a panel discussion [7]: following up – 8:00

In the second part Kristin mentions at 2:40 that panelists shouldn’t be ‘Dashboard Dogs’ – almost identical bobbleheads as shown above. But if there are greatly different opinions, you instead might wind up intervening in a dogfight between two like The Donald and Hillary Clinton.

This and That images from the National Bobblehead Museum came from Adam Moss at Wikimedia Commons.