Virtual Meetings Crash Course translates face-to-face skills to virtual ownership and success. You’ll learn best practices and proven techniques that improve virtual engagement and efficiency. Whether you’re leading a meeting, teaching, or giving a presentation, we’ll give you the essential skills to exude executive presence on-screen, hook listeners from the beginning, and keep everyone motivated -- even when you aren’t in the same room.

Whether you’re speaking at conferences, leading team meetings, or pitching to a potential client, slide presentations are an essential tool to communicate important information to your audience. In this session, you’ll discover expert communication techniques AND effective slide presentation skills to deliver more confident, compelling, and memorable presentations.

Authenticity leads to trust; trust fosters connection; and connection inspires action. Learn the skills to build authentic connections with your audience, whether you’re communicating to a manager, executive board, or prospective client.

Your co-workers and customers are bombarded with hundreds of messages on a daily basis. So how can you guarantee that your message stands out? Through a series of interactive exercises, you’ll discover how to build stronger connections, spark curiosity, and hold attention by turning passive listeners into active participants every time you speak.

When it comes to communication - both in-person and virtual - your tone of voice, body language, and delivery greatly impact whether or not your content will stick. Learn to captivate and influence your audience by stretching your voice, changing your tone, and shifting your movement in subtle but powerful ways. You’ll tap into the LifeHikes® technology to access personalized, specific feedback on your voice range, speed, and volume, and the exact strong and weak words you use when you speak.

When you feel like you’re part of something, suddenly it matters more. You pay attention. You remember. You take action. This same principle applies in communication. From meetings to sales calls to virtual keynotes, when your listeners truly feel engaged, you’ll earn trust and inspire follow-through. During this interactive module, discover expert strategies to guarantee participation, create conversation, and drive results.

You can craft the most compelling opening line, but if you don’t close with purpose, will anyone follow through? Conversely, you might have an inspiring close, but if you didn’t capture attention at the beginning, will anyone hear you? Your opening and closing moments impact how you’re perceived and whether your listeners focus or fade away. In this interactive module, you’ll learn exactly how to hook your listeners, establish credibility, and craft a captivating story that inspires action.

Learn how to command attention and create an immediate connection with your audience in this interactive training. You’ll discover verbal and nonverbal communication techniques to increase the impact of your message and keep your audience’s attention focused on you and your content. The result? People will know you’re worth listening to every time you speak.

Learn to use your voice. We won’t ask you to sing, but we will teach you how to captivate and influence your audience by stretching your voice in subtle but powerful ways. No more monotone -- you’ll learn simple techniques for varying your volume and speed to keep listeners engaged in your content. You can be more motivational than you know!

As a speaker, have you ever wondered where your audience stood on your topic? Remove the guesswork from your meetings and presentations using polling techniques. In addition to providing valuable data to you as the speaker, polling allows every audience member to participate and feel invested in the topic at hand. You’ll come away from this session knowing how and when to use polling to adapt your content to your audience.

As a meeting facilitator, how do you ensure that every team member feels like their voice is heard without derailing the meeting? In this session, you’ll learn and practice a simple, replicable technique that you can use in any meeting or presentation to quickly canvass the audience without stalling progress. Everyone will feel heard and involved, and you’ll move the group closer to commitment as the facilitator.

Take your meetings to the next level with increased engagement and collaboration. By facilitating small group activities and discussions in your meeting, you’ll foster an environment for creative brainstorming and ensure a high level of involvement from all attendees. This session provides best practices for how to use and structure small group activities to achieve your meeting goals.

How many presentations have you heard that start with some variation of “Hi, thanks for being here, today we’re going to talk about…”? Your opener is critical in setting the tone of your presentation and establishing a connection with your audience. Instead of following the predictable template that allows your audience’s attention to drift, hook your listeners from the beginning with a unique opener. You’ll discover three creative opening techniques to captivate any audience, on any subject.

From your opener to closing statement - and everything in between - how you structure your presentation matters. Without a clear structure, even a presentation on the most compelling topic won’t resonate. We’ll teach you a 5-step framework to structure presentations that are unique and memorable. Your audience will be hooked from the beginning, engaged throughout, and motivated to take action at the end.