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The Art of Moderating - Master Your Meetings

Name: The Art of Moderating - Master Your Meetings
Uploaded: 2025-07-09T20:54:47+00:00
Duration: 49 s
Channel: Tina Corner Stolz
Description: In this excerpt from Tina Corner Stolz’s video “The Art of Moderating – Master Your Meetings,” the speaker emphasizes that while an agenda can be…

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In this excerpt from Tina Corner Stolz’s video “The Art of Moderating – Master Your Meetings,” the speaker emphasizes that while an agenda can be planned, the act of moderating cannot be fully scripted because it requires continuous, real‑time reading of the room and participants’ needs. Effective moderation is described as mentally demanding; true moderators should feel exhausted after a meeting, whereas feeling energetic suggests inadequate moderation. The speaker draws a distinction between facilitation and moderation, urging viewers to engage in self‑reflection to assess whether they are truly moderating or merely facilitating, highlighting the hard work and mental stamina required for high‑quality moderation.

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You can never plan your moderating to the true extent. You can plan your agenda, but you cannot plan how you moderate through it because you have to consistently and constantly read the room of your members and what their needs are. And that's what we're talking about here. It is a hard job. You should be exhausted at the end of a meeting when you're moderating, because if you're doing it right, you will be exhausted mentally. If you still have a bunch of energy and you're like, woohoo, whatever, I guarantee you did not moderate well. You facilitated a meeting, but you did not moderate. So I'm gonna ask you to do self-reflection on that because truly moderating is hard, hard work.