Northeast Ohio Regional Library System
The second session focuses on how to make meetings more inclusive, engaging and effective in practice, particularly in online and hybrid environments.
Participants will explore how different brains, communication styles and access needs affect meeting participation. We will look at how to create psychological safety, reduce pressure to perform, support quieter voices, and design meetings where people can contribute in more than one way.
This session will also cover practical online meeting facilitation, including managing energy, using chat and interaction well, building in pauses, supporting decision-making, and helping meetings end with clarity.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify practical ways to make meetings more neuro-inclusive and accessible.
- Use online meeting tools such as chat, polls, pauses and shared documents to support participation.
- Create meeting structures that reduce cognitive load and increase clarity.
- Support different communication preferences, including spoken, written, reflective and asynchronous contribution.
- Facilitate online and hybrid meetings with more confidence, kindness and focus.
- Use simple scripts and techniques to manage common meeting challenges.
- End meetings with clearer actions, ownership and next steps.
Presenter:
Helen Rimmer is the founder of The Kind Brave Leader and Empower: The Library Skills Collective. She is a kindness and wellbeing coach, facilitator, Strengthscope Master, certified systemic team coach, and holds a PGCert in the Psychology of Kindness and Wellbeing at Work. Helen brings over 20 years’ experience in library and higher education leadership, alongside her work supporting individuals, teams and organizations to build kinder, braver and more sustainable workplaces. Her work focuses on kindness-led leadership, burnout prevention, boundaries, wellbeing, inclusion and creating humane cultures of work.
Online via Zoom
UNITED STATES
(phone: 4403840868)
Competencies: Communication, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion, and Leadership
Non-Member Cost: $40
NEO-RLS Bronze Member Cost: $24
NEO-RLS Silver Member Cost: FREE
NEO-RLS Gold Member Cost: FREE
NEO-RLS Individual Member Cost: $20
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10/28/2026
Management & Administration
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