Wednesday, February 19, 2020

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:

8 roles of a panel moderator - January 28, 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






























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.

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